August Twenty Eighth Evening…

Well I got a few things done today… washed the towels and did two loads of laundry, ran the dishwasher twice, found a bunch of websites for printing center places for hubby to apply at, watered the plants, updated the checkbook, made a cake…

Son2 painted the shelves and played his video game and went online in between while they were drying between coats…

Son1 worked on his Jeep clutch all day… still a few things left to adjust but it is back together… tomorrow he is going to a baby shower for his cousin…

Hubby worked on this and that all day… moved all these pavers from the front of the house to the back temporarily since all our projects are on hold until we have some income coming in again…

Son3 played Heroscape all day and watched TV… surprised he didn’t play video games very much…

Holly finding a cool spot under the rose bushes… actually we are done with our 100’s for the week and back to the 80’s…

We are done with dinner and watching The Road to El Dorado, animated movie… I’m tired… and heading into my grumpy week… and trying to have patience with hubby… we will be fine one minute and then remember the next but not always at the same minutes… hubby’s fine most of the day though but then starts dwelling in the night and can’t sleep… Me, I go to sleep to escape… today everyone just seemed loud to me and hubby was talking all day… maybe I’m just thinking he is going to be here every day for a while, lol… I need quiet time already…

Tomorrow it’s off to work early, another ad to set up… think I have help…

Today I ate: water, vitamins… Lunch: chicken strip, Bugle snacks, cola… Raisinets… licked cake beaters… spoonful of peanut butter… Dinner: chicken, rib, peas, rice, water… and will have a piece of yellow cake with chocolate frosting before bed…

Happy Journaling…

August Twenty Eighth

Yesterday was a sad day for me so didn’t feel like posting last night… I think I was past the initial shock and fight mode and the reality of everything hit me and I was on the verge of tears all day…

I was also unproductive at work… plus the handhelds were not cooperating nor were the batteries charging well… I did get the ad set and a few boxes opened and a lot of talking to supervisor…

Hubby got a lot of little things done around the house and spent over two and a half hours on the phone with ATT support… they even had to do research and call him back… they were stumped as to why the computer would not go online when we were online due to DSL, so nothing wrong on their end… but a Big Thumbs Up for ATT support… so when I got home we downloaded Internet Explorer and Firefox from the laptop… first tried installing internet explorer but still wouldn’t recognize anything so installed Firefox and TADA able to connect to the internet and see web pages… YAY!! so hubby put internet explorer in hide mode so no one will accidentally click on it and freeze up the computer…

I spent most of the evening on facebook just hanging out… Dinner was whatever you could find… son1 was off with friends after work so never saw him… We watched some more Wild Wild West episodes… son2 was catching up on his facebook withdrawals… and son3 was playing with son2’s Heroscape… after getting the boys settled in bed, hubby and I watched a Bones episode and I don’t even remember falling asleep…

Yesterday I ate: vitamins, water… Lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… chips… Dinner~chicken strip, baked beans, beef stew, 2 croissants…

This morning I am feeling better… Hubby is doing fine, but he knew about it longer than I did, so has had more time to adjust… Has plans for his resume… I paid the house payment for September… figuring out how we can live on my income, although half of my paycheck goes to medical benefits, til hubby gets unemployment or a job… keeping the little bit of savings we have for house payments…

We told son3 so he understands as best a 9 year old can… the biggest change for him is hubby will walk him to and from school to save on gas… the school is a five minute walk, lol… He is playing with the Heroscsape again this morning and watching cartoons…

Son2 is painting my black shelves white and has chores to do today… plus don’t know if he has homework this weekend…

Son1 has friends over helping him replace his clutch… so far they have broken the gear shift and now need to replace that too…

Hubby is working on cleaning up to get stuff out for our big garbage pickup next week… actually hubby would have been on vacation next week…

I have lots to do today!! Clean the kitchen, clean the bathrooms, laundry, wash rugs and towels, maybe wash sheets, go through my paper piles and update checkbook, hubby has unemployment to fill out, I’ve pulled out the phone books so we can look up companies in the area to apply at for jobs, water the house plants…

Ok, an hour later and I am back… hubby is now all signed up at unemployment and registered at their job search… now the rest is up to him to update his resume and fill out job applications online…

It is 12:30 already and I need to get busy and get some things done…

Happy Journaling…

August Twenty Sixth…

Good day at work today… helped finish counting the women’s shoes, opened boxes, went to lunch, got the signs ready for tomorrow’s ad, opened boxes, talked with supervisor, opened boxes…

Hubby was better when I got home as he had been to work to get papers and final paycheck… he also told son1 the news… son1 just got home from being with girlfriend… hubby got homework done with son3… I fixed some chicken tenders to go with leftovers… sink still full of dishes… I’m sure hubby will get them done tomorrow… with all his nervous anxious energy he will be getting lots done around the house… today and yesterday he has been trying to fix the main internet computer…

We have been watching more F Troop and The Wild Wild West… all these shows are from 1965…

It’s getting late… son1 and son2 have already gone to bed but son3 is still up… of course he is the last who has to get up in the morning… I have to be to work early too tomorrow…

Today I ate: Breakfast~Capn Crunch cereal, vitamins, water… Lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… Dinner~chicken tender, rib, baked beans, carrots, rigatoni, beef stew, slice of wheat bread, water… just a bit of each as I pulled out all the leftovers… popsicle…

Happy Journaling…

It’s Thursday…

It’s Thursday visit me at The Motivation Station…

Happy Journaling…

August Twenty Fifth…

Just finished eating dinner… Deli chicken family pack… watched an episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and now watching first episode of Season 1 of F Troop with Ken Berry…

Today was my day off… son1 went off to work, got son2 off to school, got hubby off to work, didn’t even get son3 up or take my shower and hubby was back from work… He lost his job today… stupid reasons… eleven years with the company… this past year, they have a new policy… three infractions and automatic termination… #1 a year ago he went to lunch late past the five hour period because he was busy with customers… #2 he told a secret shopper they couldn’t do something over the phone, never tell a customer no even if it’s really no… #3 told a secret shopper on the phone they did not sell rubber stamps, when they had just started selling them, he had forgotten… these three happened over a years time… he still has to go back tomorrow to receive his final pay and turn in his keys… doesn’t sound like a good plan to me, if you are let go, then every thing should be ready at that time, you are not in the mood to go back and see every one…

We have spent the day on a emotional roller coaster… and making plans… at least F Troop has distracted him for the moment and he is laughing…

I didn’t get too much done today… my entry for The Motivation Station for tomorrow… laundry… hubby helped with the dishes, still more to do… I watched Emergency on Retro TV but still haven’t opened my new DVD yet… homework with son3… son2 went with hubby to the store after school to get milk, dinner and talk about hubby’s job situation… no sign of son1 yet this evening… yesterday he worked on his clutch after work… he borrowed his dad’s truck til he finishes fixing the Jeep…

Son3 had math homework that he did on his own… spelling sentences that I helped him with… forgot his reading book… I forgot to mention that last Friday when he brought home his papers for the week… he got a 105% on his spelling test and a 90% on his math test…

Today I ate: Breakfast~frosted flakes with yogurt, water, vitamins… popcorn, cola, beans and chips… Dinner~3 chicken wings, baked beans, potato salad, macaroni salad, green salad, roll, french fry, cream soda… 3 squares of Hershey chocolate bar… I’m full but not overstuffed… popsicle later… it was 111 degrees today and will be only 81 on Sunday…

son1 is home now, hot and tired from work…

Gonna have my popsicle, put away laundry and probably watch Season 2 of Bones with hubby…

Happy Journaling…

 

August Twenty Fourth…

Hubby and I are watching another Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea… son1 is off at friend A’s house, they haven’t hung out in quite awhile, since son1 has been spending all his time with friend S… Girlfriend started back at college tonight…  son2 is watching WipeOut… son3 is in the shower and heading to his room to watch something for a minute and then sleeping…

Another good day at work… we were supposed to have a visit yesterday or today but don’t think we did… supervisor is back to work tomorrow after her little vacation… Today at work I scanned men and athletic shoes for missing signs… then had coworker finish women and kids… then showed him how to print them out so he could put them up… I opened boxes all morning, went to lunch and then opened boxes all afternoon… I think that is part of my losing weight is all the exercising I’m getting at work… walking, lifting, up and down ladders…

according to the scale I’m down over 22 pounds now… I’m hoping next week to start adding exercise at home too…

Got home… hubby was having grumpy time homework with son3… hubby is choosing to have son3 do his homework on his own with lots of poking and prodding… so it took over an hour just for son3 to look up definitions for ten of his spelling words… he said he did his math and language homework just fine without help… I would have chosen to help son3 with the definitions to get it done quicker… not do it for him, but guide him through the dictionary… he is still learning by repetition of doing it every week… it’s not like we are half way through the year and he is still not using the dictionary.. it’s only two weeks into the school year… I’m more for knowing how to spell the words… and getting the homework done in the 40 minute time period that the teachers swear it takes… also would like to have time to do reading… hubby just chooses to pick different battles than me… also found out son3 brought home the wrong math homework yesterday so got a detention slip for it… but then he forgot to bring home the detention slip today for us to sign so tomorrow he will get a detention slip for the detention slip… argh… he is in the upper grades now and they get reward trips at the end of six weeks or so, although  I thought they had stopped doing this as they could not afford so many field trips a year… anyway… more than three detention slips and no reward field trip for the student…

Also this school year son3 has 35 students in his class… the teachers at our elementary school are used to having only 21 or so… I think we are at maximum classrooms and teachers just too many students this year… especially with kindergarten going to morning only this year…

I checked email and threw some stuff together for dinner… when I do homework with son3 I make dinner at the same time… not hubbys though… lol… we had leftover ribs and sides… plus I heated up a frozen rigatoni dish hubby had bought, a can of beef stew and some cheese bread… now dinner is over, the sink is full of dishes plus more and it’s already 8:30pm… I still haven’t gotten to open my new Emergency DVD… I’m off tomorrow with too many plans to fit in one morning…

clean the house, dishes, laundry, wash bedding, yard work, blogging, facebook, read, watch tv, wash cars, projects, and then some… but first… lots of sleeping…

Today I ate: Breakfast~apples and cinnamon oatmeal, vitamins, water… Lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… After work~chips and beans… Dinner~rib, carrots, rigatoni, beef stew, slice of wheat bread, cheese bread, water~I had just a bit of each in a small plate and just a bit of stew in a small bowl… popsicle~I’m sure I’ll have one here in a minute… it was 105 degrees today…

Happy Journaling…

August Twenty Third…

We are watching the original Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 1… so far the boys are still here watching… son1 is being tortured by girlfriend and is watching The Last Song with Miley Cyrus… We had the ribs for dinner that I cooked in the crock pot on Saturday… they could have been a bit tangier but ribs are always good… son1 had Subway and girlfriend had Chinese food…

I was busy at work today and I am pooped… scanned the men and athletic shoes for missing displays, made signs for the ad change, opened boxes, went to lunch, opened more boxes, located women fashion boots in the stock room as they were filling up my room with more boxes to open… got home, son3 had just finished homework but he had did his Thursday spelling homework, so had to do his Tuesday spelling homework… just remembered I have to write his spelling words on the white board… son2 had already showered and finished his homework…

If you have been following me on The Motivation Station, you know that I ordered a white, 5 shelf bookcase at the beginning of the month from Walmart… and then it came damaged so I had to order replacement shelves… well they finally came today… they are black shelves… argh! there was nothing that stated color when I ordered them, just to state the part numbers from the instructions… so hubby said he will spray paint them… so meanwhile still no bookcase…

But I’m still happy cause this came in the mail today… I just love this show… call me crazy…

First episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is over… there were explosions, some ice caps and now they are drinking coffee and happy… I have no idea what it was about, lol… even hubby is not sure and he grew up watching this show… he’s starting the next episode…

I have dishes to do… I’ll do them in the morning before work…

One more day of work and then a day off… and last week of five day weeks… four day weeks til middle of October and then vacation the week before Halloween…

Time to get son3 in the shower… son2 is asleep on the floor… guess Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was too much for him… I’m ready for bed too… but first a popsicle…

Today I ate: Breakfast~apples and cinnamon oatmeal, vitamins, water… Lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… Dinner~2 ribs, au gratin potatoes, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, beans, tortilla chips, water… popsicle…

Happy Journaling…

August Twenty Second…

Today was the fastest day!

I got to work early and couldn’t believe it, no ad to set up… have signs to set up tomorrow though… so since I did not have to fiddle with signs for a change, I stocked… I haven’t go to just stock in quite a while… so I worked on men work boots and athletic shoes… then I put away and located a bunch of shoes in the stockroom… went to lunch and then opened boxes the rest of the day…

Came home… son1 came in right behind me from the night before from his friend’s BBQ… I helped son3 finish his All About Me poster, watched Hot Tub Time Machine, it was OK, a bit funny, finished reading The Lightening Thief, hubby came home from work, everyone was on their own for dinner, don’t know if son2 has everything ready for school or finished his homework or laundry, I checked on Facebook, son2 is having internet withdrawals since the computer is down in the front room, so I let him go on the laptop while I was watching the movie, laundry still not put away, loaded the dishwasher but not full yet, boys are watching Simpsons and getting ready for bed, hubby has put in a disc for Bones Season 2 and bringing popsicles…

Today I ate: Breakfast~juice, vitamins… Lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… Dinner~chips, cheese, beans, water… popsicle…

Off to watch Bones and then to sleep… Where did Sunday go… It’s almost Monday already…

Happy Journaling…

August Twenty First

We’re watching Furry Vengeance with Brendan Frasier… It’s silly but funny and son3 likes it…

I forgot to mention yesterday that when we got son2’s material at JoAnn’s… when son2 finally found the right kind of material in black he needed for his pillow he is making for home economic at school… he brought the bolt which was 40% off to the counter and pulled a number to have a yard cut… meanwhile I found a yard of the exact material in the remnant area for 50% off… good deal! of course while we were in line paying, they were calling his number… oops sorry…

I am back… the movie ended… wrestled with son2 and son3, tickle fight… put away dinner… sat with son2 and hubby outside for a bit… and now we are watching an episode of Bones from season 2…

Son1 and girlfriend ended up going camping with some friends last night… girlfriend had camping supplies but off son1 went, no change of clothes or a toothbrush… too far from home to get anything…  ewwwww… lol… tonight they are off with the same friends having a BBQ with tri tips that son1 marinated for the last couple of days…

Today was a nice quiet day… got to sleep in til 8am… hubby made breakfast of scrambled eggs, sausage, toast and juice… Saturday morning talk with son2 and son3 on their week… hubby did yard work and hung some curtains in the front living room and did a quick grocery shop… son2 did some chores… and I cleaned all the kitchen counters, ran the dishwasher twice, washed two loads of laundry and tried to fix the main internet computer and put ribs in the crock pot… still have to put away the laundry and the sink is full of dishes again… we have decided to replace the CPU for the main internet computer… it’s ten years old and has crashed a couple of times… now we keep getting error boxes every time we try to open enternet explorer… the CPU is still usable so will go to son2 for doing homework and playing games… just not powerful enough anymore for the internet…

Danny had a bit of an adventure today… hubby was replacing a board on the fence and I told son2 to let Danny out in the backyard not knowing that hubby was fixing the fence… so guess while hubby was out front getting the board Danny slipped out the fence in the back… and hubby put in the new board, locking him out… was at least an hour and a half before son2 and hubby kept hearing scratching at the fence, thinking it was Holly… hubby opened the front door and in came Danny, who went straight to his water bowl… don’t where all he went but he had a little outing and luckily came home… of course he knows where the food is…

Today was a nice long day… even now it is only 9:30pm… of course I started this entry at 7:30pm… son3 is settling in his room with a movie… tired out from playing Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 all day… son2 is tired and falling asleep in the chair next to me… hubby and I are getting ready to watch more Bones and he is bringing a popsicle…

Today I ate: Breakfast~scrambled eggs, sausage, toast, juice, vitamins and I tried a green tea tablet today… Lunch~cola… Dinner~pizza, scrambled eggs, sausage, broccoli, cauliflower, beans , rice, tortilla chips, water… not as much as it sounds, had a bit of each, except the beans and chips, I had seconds… and now I am having a banana popsicle…

Tomorrow is back to work… another day of setting the ad and opening boxes and putting away shoes… son2 has homework and laundry to do… and son3 has to finish his ‘All About Me’ poster…

Happy Journaling…

August Twentieth…

Friday night! We are watching Quigley Down Under with Tom Selleck… son3 is playing video games to catch up from not being able to play all week being back at school… son1 is off at girlfriend’s house…

Today was a quick day at work… went in early to set the ad… changed out some sale tables in athletic shoes… went to lunch… opened boxes… after work we went to JoAnn’s to get son2 some fabric for his home economic class so he can make a pillow… then we stopped at Taco Bell to bring home dinner… half way home we had to go back as we were missing one of son3’s items… finally got home at 7pm and here it is almost 9pm…

Today I ate: Breakfast~orange juice, vitamins… Lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… Dinner~taco salad from Taco Bell, cactus cooler…

Thursday not as quick a day at work but it went along… Spent the whole day opening boxes… did get a bit grumpy at work as it starts to wear on you to continue to do the work of several people and get no where fast… also found out the supervisor called out this week too with a migraine…

Got home at almost 6pm and son3 was still doing homework… over two hours of homework a night and the teachers say no more than forty minutes… Phooey! he has math and spelling/language every day… and last night he was writing the final  draft of his Georgia O'Keeffe report… hubby had to go to a meeting so after the boys finished up their homework and we had leftovers, I went to my room to watch the first two episodes of True Blood, Season Two… and then hubby came home and brought Its It ice cream… then we watched an episode of Bones, Season Two…

Thursday I ate: Breakfast~blueberry poptarts, orange juice, vitamins… Lunch: chimichanga, yogurt, cola… Dinner: chicken, rice, broccoli, cauliflower, potato salad, water… Its It ice cream…

Wednesday I had a day off and it was the fastest day ever… I got everyone off to work and school including son3… came home and was a on the laptop… got my entry written for The Motivation Station… accidentally deleted it… rewrote it again… watched an episode of Emergency on the Retro channel… ordered season one of Emergency, a new book called Home Comforts and a new bra at Walmart… and it was time to pick up son3 as it was early day… I got no housework done at all… did homework with son3 for almost three hours, I timed it… math, spelling sentences and write his final for his heritage report… fixed dinner… we watched Cop Out with Bruce Willis… it was hilarious… too many F@#$ words but every line in between the swearing was hilarious… son1 and girlfriend watched Hot Tub Time Machine… they said it was ok, but obviously our movie was funnier with all the laughing we were doing…

Wednesday I ate: Breakfast~Capn Crunch cereal, water, vitamins… Lunch~popcorn, yogurt, cola… Dinner~chicken, broccoli, cauliflower, rice, potato salad, water…

And now it’s Friday… Yay a day off tomorrow… but of course we have homework… argh… son2 has geometry and history… and son3 has to do an All About Me poster… I don’t want to go to school anymore… I graduated from high school about 28 years ago… and then went to college for five years… then son1 was born and six years later, I’ve been going to school ever since… I’ve found a flaw in having the boys seven years apart… as soon as one starts junior high school, another starts kindergarten… lol… three more years son3 will be in junior high and I will finally be done with elementary school…

But first it is time for the boys to get to the showers so we can have some sleep and sleep in tomorrow… no work or school!

Happy Journaling…

Color Carnival

To Play Visit Martha…

Open the door, I can see you in there…

Baboon at the San Francisco Zoo…

When we first saw this… we all looked at each other and said, “Color Carnival”!…

Happy Journaling…

August Seventeenth

Waiting for the boys to settle for the night so I can relax… son1 is playing XBox… son2 is doing homework, he’s been doing it off and on all evening… son3 is watching WipeOut… hubby is playing RollerCoaster Tycoon 3… Holly is sitting with me…

Son1 was filling out job applications on line last night… looking for a part time job again to go with his full time job… wants to pay off his credit cards… and still go to the driving school… he was looking at Scholastic Books, Target and furniture stores… don’t know which ones he filled out…

Back to work today… No one even said anything about me not being there yesterday… my stuff was exactly where I left it on Sunday… We are quite messy with back to school… I helped clean the floor a bit and then opened boxes All Day…

Came home, hubby was still doing homework with son3… son2 was needing a printer to print out his homework… of course the printer did not want to cooperate so we were finally eating dinner at 7pm… I hate getting off at 5… I like going in at 9am though cause then I get stuff done before work in the morning… although I am up at 5:30am making sure son1 and son2 are up and out the door… and then get hubby out the door… if I just ignored all of them I could sleep til 7am… lol… hubby made more chicken to go with the chicken and rice he had made yesterday… we finished disc 1 of Kolchak: The Night Stalker…

Today I ate: Breakfast~graham crackers, orange juice, vitamins… Lunch: chimichanga, yogurt, cola… Dinner: chicken, rice, green beans, lemonade… two cookies…

9pm! time for all boys to be in bed for school tomorrow… I’m gonna watch a Bones on my season 2 discs and then I’m going to sleep too… I’m tired! Where’s that hubby… Yay Day off tomorrow!

Happy Journaling…

August Sixteenth

The weekend got away from me and I didn’t get to blog…

Let’s see if I can remember what we did…

Saturday we had our usual family breakfast… even son1 was here… lots of talk of school and what son2 and son3 needed… think son1 was a bit jealous as he mentioned he needed some new school pants (for work) and some shaving cream… He did find the jeans he likes at a hardware store he hadn’t been to before, for a cheaper price than he usually pays, so he was happy… and I got him some shaving cream since son2 was using it too… also some pizza snacks for Danny…

but first hubby and I exchanged our Anniversary cards/presents after breakfast… I had hoped to do it just the two of us, but he brought the presents out while the boys were there and they wanted to see too… I got hubby season two of Bones and he got me Season one and two of Angel… we had found season three and four of Angel as a two pack for $19.99 so he was excited when he stumbled across one and two as a two pack too for $19.99… otherwise they are about $40 for each season… and we got a new stereo for the van as the one that was in there died on our trip to San Francisco… even the back speakers work now… we thought they had gone out but must have been the stereo going all along… son1 installed it for us Saturday late afternoon… 

I did not want to go but some school supplies were needed that we did not have in the house and I was out of vitamins and a few other things so I agreed to go to Target, no Walmart… Target wasn’t too bad and we found almost everything we needed… except for the two main school supplies: notebook paper and a composition grid/graph paper book that son2 needed… so I said we would just run in quick to Walmart, which we did, but then we waited in the huge line… and they did not have the composition book… so waiting to hear from son2 today on suggestions from his friends on who carries it…

Girlfriend was over for a bit, had lunch and helped son1 put in the car stereo… as he’s color blind, he needs someone to verify wire colors for him…

Son3 and I made his cutout man for his heritage report… or should I say I made it, he kept wandering off… he did pick out the parts and glue on some parts but we know that the parents do most of the work… told him I would put my name on it so I would get the A+ he says he’s gonna get…

Saturday night we had leftover pizza and salad and watched Clash of the Titans and more Lost in Space… I keep falling asleep and missing the end of all the Lost in Space episodes…

Saturday I ate: Breakfast~scrambled eggs, cheese sausage, English muffin and orange juice… Lunch~I didn’t have lunch, but I did have some tortilla chips and a cola… Dinner~pizza, salad, chicken leg, bread stick… water, popsicle…

Sunday I was up and at work at 6am… set the ad, got to use the new sign printer, fancy, went to lunch, and opened boxes… Not a good day as Chuck was a whole week early, you know Chuck, he comes once a month and brings his own luggage, you might know him as Aunt Flo… anyway it explained all my rages out of no where and why I have been wanting tortilla chips all week… however he wasn’t being nice to me Sunday with many trips to the restroom… Got off at 1:30 to discover I was actually off at 1:15, really! I worked longer than I had too… lol… At home all the boys were playing video games… I straightened up, reminded them that it was almost back to school again and their chores to get ready… I helped son3 take notes for his heritage report on the United States…

And I finished season one of True Blood… I think I can actually say I like it… not something you want to watch in mixed company but something I can watch just for me… I was like awwwwwwww when Bill sacrificed himself in the sun for Sookie… I knew he would be ok as they are now in season three… but what happened to Lafayette, was he a vampire snack… don’t tell me… I have season two already to come next on my rental queue at Netflix…

Everyone was on their own for dinner… son2 had some salad, son3 had corned beef hash and pizza… son1 went off to the movies with girlfriend to see Dinner for Schmuks…

Hubby got home late… he, son2 and I were talking about our day… then I was on the laptop, son2 was on the computer, son3 was on video games, hubby was watching nothing on TV… I watched a Lost in Space with hubby and of course fell asleep and woke up at 9:30  and the boys were not in bed yet… fortunately son3 had already taken a shower… so lights out for everyone and I went to bed and fell back asleep… so not a good start to our first Sunday getting ready for our first Monday at school…

Sunday I ate: Breakfast~nothing… Lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… Dinner~tomato soup and cheese bread, cactus cooler… 

Here it is Monday and I called out of work today… Between Back to School last week, Chuck not treating me nice, all the boxes I have been hauling at work… I am tired… I was light headed a couple of days at work last week and I had heart palpations two mornings… thought it was sugar in my breakfast too early in the morning but maybe it was just chuck coming… I know I ate enough last week as I was eating more than I wanted, hence chuck coming… and yet I get on the scale and down the weight goes… mind boggling…

So today I did the laundry, sorted through the paper piles, paid the bills, figured out some finances, dyed my work clothes, made potato salad and made some cookies… watched Emergency and enjoyed the completely quiet house…

Now son1 and hubby are home from work… son2 and son3 are home from school… hot, sweaty and grumpy… son2 is showering and son3 is having ten minutes of PBS/Martha Speaks and then we are starting homework… Spelling, Math and rough draft of his report…

Hubby said he is making dinner… chicken and rice with cream of chicken soup… for breakfast I had yogurt with frosted flakes, water with vitamins… for lunch I had chef Boyardee beefaroni and a cola…

Off to do homework….

Happy Journaling…

August Thirteenth…

Yesterday was my first day back to getting off at five from work, now that the boys are back in school… so my evenings are shorter and I ran out of blogging time… So yesterday was a long day at work, although it went along… I spent all day locating shoes into the stockroom… until the last two hours when the supervisor and I did too much talking since we hadn’t seen each other all week… Today I finished locating the shoes into the stockroom and opened the rest of the boxes… Now just waiting for receiving to bring up the big pile waiting in the warehouse… Lots of people back to school shopping… when I got to work yesterday, you needed a snow plow to get through the kids shoe department… shoes all over the floor in every aisle… so I helped clean up kids for a bit in the morning…

The boys had a good second and third day at school… so technically one week in already… son2 tried to change his classes again today, his teachers said ok, but the office said no… he wanted out of anatomy and drawing… son3 wanted to join band but I did not like that he would get pulled out of class randomly throughout the week to go to band and miss class time, plus I do not think he realizes the commitment it takes to learn an instrument… he wants to play the trombone… so we have compromised and told him we would learn some things at home… so son2 is going to show him drums from when he was in drum line in junior high and give him his electronic drum pad… and I am looking into getting an electric keyboard… I use to play piano a bit and I have been telling son2 we should get one, plus it might be cheaper than son3 taking band… He’s only in the fourth grade…

Son1 is wanting to go to driving school to get his class A license to drive big trucks… It’s $1200 for the driving school… Told him if he saved up for a couple of months, he could go, and then it would not be a struggle trying to pay as he went… Plus he mentioned something about wanting to go to City College… he does know they have books there and you have to read them, right… I’m glad he’s interested, just don’t know if he has the patience to go to college full time…

He’s been waiting for girlfriend all evening… to go to dinner… she was getting her hair done… it’s 9pm and she is finally on her way… son1 said he is not even hungry… he had pizza with us earlier…

I am still perplexed that I am losing weight… my goal for August was to lose 6lbs… bringing my total to 20lbs since the middle of May… I’ve already lost 4-6lbs this month… I say 4-6 cause weight fluxuates so much every day… So I’m giving myself the month to lock in the 6lb lost for good… Have to wrap my mind around the discipline to keep my body at the new weight and let my body adjust and settle at the new weight… So this whole weight loss thing is more a battle of the mind than with the body… I’m still eating but I am aware of how much… I’ve eaten a bit more this week… but even mixing up the days keeps your metabolism on its toes…

Yesterday… Breakfast: two waffles with peanut butter and apricot jelly; chocolate milk… Lunch: chimichanga, yogurt, cola… Dinner: chicken leg, rice, tortilla chips and chili, water… mini almond joy…

Today: Breakfast: yogurt with frosted flakes sprinkled in… Lunch: chimichanga, yogurt, cola… tortilla chips… Dinner: pizza, salad, cactus cooler… thinking of having a popsicle…

To me that looks like a lot of food… and it is no different to what I used to eat… it’s the portions that are way smaller… I used to have tortilla chips all day by the handfuls… now I take one at a time and only have a few to appease my need for crunchy and salty… instead of four full size pizza slices… I now cut one slice in two like I do for son3 and it seems like I had four slices but really only two sliced into four… the biggest thing is Stay Out Of The Kitchen! that is where the food is that we don’t need if it’s not meal time or the stomach is not growling… I think too that everyone has to find what works for them… this is life not a diet and you have to learn what your relationship with food is… Everyone keeps asking what I did to lose the weight and I don’t really have an answer… I’m not doing anything cause that would be work and too hard… I’m simply adjusting how much I eat… eventually I’ll have to add in some exercising and change foods here or there… I’m learning as I go as this is a life long mission learning to have a relationship with food where we can get along…

Last night hubby and I watched some Kolchak episodes from Season 1 and tonight we introduced son2 to Lost In Space, the very first episode… he has now gone to bed as he is tired from school… Son3 is latched onto video games… isn’t he tired from school… he needs to go to bed… I need to go to bed… I’m tired… Tomorrow we’ve got to do more school stuff on our day off…

Happy Journaling…

August Eleventh…

 

I had a wonderful quiet day today while son2 and son3 were back at school… Son2 had his first four classes today and tomorrow will be another first day of school as he has his second four classes… Son3 didn’t want me to walk him to his class this year… He didn’t even want me to get out of the car, lol… Said he’s with the big kids now and he could find his class with his friends… They both already had homework and  I had a ton of papers to fill out for the teachers and office… Plus hubby and I had to go to Back to School night for son3’s class to hear the teacher’s expectations… Son2 already needs money for his Home Economics class and son3 has a project due next Friday… I already feel behind and it’s just the first day…

Hubby and the boys just finished watching Win It In a Minute… Now the boys are settling in their rooms… They’ll be tired after school for sure tomorrow…

I played on facebook and the computer, cleaned up some paper piles, updated the calendar for the next three months and watched Emergency… It comes on at noon on the Retro Channel… For breakfast I had Capn Crunch Berries cereal… For lunch I had two enchiladas, a tomato, some chips and a cola… I was stuffed… so I skipped dinner… there was leftovers in the fridge for the boys… I did have an ice cream bar just a bit ago…

Now we are all tired and going to bed… it was an emotional up and down day of starting the new school year… and hubby has been staying late with all his customers getting ready for the school year…

Happy Journaling….

Back to School

Son2~Junior

Son3~Fourth Grade

Happy Journaling…

August Tenth

Last night got away from me and I ran out of time to do a post… Nothing exciting at work yesterday… I wasn’t quite motivated either… We were short hand helds so I wasn’t able to scan the displays for men and athletic shoes… So just changed out the ad from the weekend… and checked out Pebble on the computer… kind of like facebook but just for work… opened boxes… went to lunch, had my usual chimichanga, yogurt and cola… then opened boxes til it was time to go home… I actually cleared up half the boxes but as I was leaving saw the guys bringing two more full carts to the stockroom…

After work I made chicken enchiladas with corn and stewed tomatoes… while hubby ran to the grocery store… son1 and girlfriend had dinner too… then they watched Rush Hour 3 and girlfriend fell asleep… Son2 watched Legion and stayed up too late… son3 watched Hot Shots… and hubby and I watched Star Trek Insurrection and I fell asleep…

Today I had a vacation day… Which was good cause even though they are getting ready for school they are hanging onto summer… Son2 finished his Netflix movies today'; Legion and Book of Eli… Son3 had Pirates of the Caribbean marathon yesterday and went back and forth between video games and movies today… Son2 had a very hard time getting up at 6am this morning… I spent the day cleaning out the school supply drawers and making sure they have everything for tomorrow from clean clothes to backpacks to lunch money… Now they are showered and ready for bed, nails have been cut… they are heading to their rooms and it is lights out at 9pm…

This morning I got on the scale and it said I have lost 17lbs since the middle of May… I don’t know how this is possible… I know I have made changes but nothing that I feel is drastic… For breakfast this morning I had a handful of shredded wheat with a glass of juice and my vitamins… For lunch I had boneless chicken, stewed tomatoes and black eyed peas… For a snack I had two plums and a cola… For dinner I had two chicken legs, white cheddar shells, broccoli rice and white corn… and only water to drink… and a few tortilla chips before dinner… and now hubby is making brownies and last night before bed I had an ice cream bar… I am watching my portion sizes and being aware of the food going into my mouth and chewing…

Now I am off to straighten up and put away laundry and myself to sleep so I can get up early and send everyone off to work and school….

Happy Journaling…

August Eighth

 

Today was a quiet non eventful day…

Worked 6-2:30… Set the ad, inputted my vacation requests for the rest of the year into our new system, cleaned up the stockroom to make room for more shoes and went to lunch… After lunch I opened boxes and more boxes…

Once home, got the boys on their chores… son2 finished taking down the pool today… son3 read another chapter in his book… and son1 and son2 were playing video games… son1 is just hanging out today resting from all his working and playing…

I ate my usual lunch of chimichanga, yogurt and a cola… two tomato sandwiches when I got home… and a chili dog with peas and carrots for dinner… hubby gets home late on Sunday so everyone is on their own for dinner…

I had plans of going through all the school supplies but still haven’t got to that… Definitely this week though… Instead I watched After.Life with Liam Neeson, Christina Ricci and Justin Long… It was OK, kinda sad and confusing… I think I understand the ending… Then I watched Avatar with son3 while playing on Facebook til Funniest Videos came on… Now I’m watching some old movie with hubby called Empire of the Ants with Joan Collins… Boys are watching Simpsons and Family Guy… they need to head for the showers and bed… Only two days til school starts…

We’ve started planning for Halloween… Hubby found a video on YouTube on how to make candles out of pvc pipes… Son2 is thinking of being a scarecrow for the yard to scare the trick or treaters… Hubby is making stands out of pvc pipe for the dummies this year… Need to start stocking up on candy… Still have 100s of pencils to give out too from last year… Now hopefully hubby is able to get Halloween off… It’s on a Sunday this year… I have the week off before but will have to work on Halloween… Hopefully I can get off early… Or how will we set up for the trick or treaters if either of us is home…

Time to get the jammies and head for bed… Back to work tomorrow…

Happy Journaling…

August Seventh

 

I had a much better day at work on Friday…

Changed out all the sale tables, went to lunch and opened boxes… worked 6-2:45… once home, still in a good mood… checked email… played on facebook… went to son3’s school to check the posting for his teacher and class number… he was happy, a few of his friends in his class… made chicken wings for dinner with leftover hotdogs and chilli… watched a couple of repeat bones on TV… and went to sleep…

son1 spent the night at his friend’s house… and then today had to go to girlfriend’s to go to a wedding…

son2 and hubby were deciding whether to go fishing on Saturday/today… son3 and I did not want to go fishing, we wanted to stay home…

Hubby and son2 decided not to go fishing as hubby wanted to have a family day, so I suggested we go to the antique stores…

So I got up first this morning, checked on the computer, did the dishes and made breakfast… scrambled eggs, corn beef hashed and toast…

Then we were on our way to the antique stores…

Went to the first one, very nice time looking at everything…

Then hubby went into one that we had not been in before… I like looking in the larger ones, but this was a small one person owned one… so in we went… the boys following… and I guess the door didn’t close correctly as the owner walked over to the door, closed it and stated loudly that the air conditioner was on and how rude that we didn’t close the door…

I was Pissed! I have to put up with opinionated customers and then when I am a customer I have to put up with opinionated associates… I told hubby I was done, went out the door, Firmly closing it behind me to be sure I didn’t let the air conditioner out… As I was mad, guess it slammed pretty good… cause the owner came out and called out to me, that wasn’t necessary, but I was too busy seeing red and to the end of the street by then that I didn’t hear him… however  hubby and the boys were coming out behind  the owner and hubby told him to calm down, the owner said something to the effect that I must have been born in a barn, where then son2 told him, that was his mom and that he better watch himself… hubby then told him that they were leaving and to back off…

They caught up with me and we went into another store that was more a ladies boutique but we were just trying to calm down at that point, so we pretended to look and then went on to the train store so the boys could look there… I still couldn’t calm down so I went back outside to wait for them…

Yes, the man was an idiot, and I didn’t catch the name of his store but I would post it every where so everyone would be warned not to shop there… However I am more aware of how much my cycle is way off last month and this month of my mood swings… I know I only have one good week a month and last week was my good week, but phew I am having my rages more often then just a few days before…

So we were able to go on to three more antique stores that we usually visit and the boys found some $1 comic books which was what gets them to the antique stores… and I calmed down a bit but my face and ears were burning all day and I got a big headache…

We then went to get Slurpees, having to pick different flavors as our favorites were not available…

Came home, the boys read their comic books, son3 had read two chapters in his Prince of Persia book earlier in the car, hubby started draining the pool and I swept the back patio and watered the grass…

I made some more BBQ wings for dinner and pulled out all the leftovers from the fridge and heated up some peas and carrots… Did three loads of laundry… Hubby ran to Walmart for a curtain rod for the front living room so we can finally put up a curtain over the top window that heats up that room… and I did the dishes again… Now we’ve been watching The Color of Magic that is a three hour two part mini series and we are about half way through part two… By the same people of HogFather…

Hubby already dozed off once so it needs to finish as it is back to work again tomorrow to set another ad and open more boxes and behave myself…

Happy Journaling…

August Fifth

 

Today I had a terrible, horrible, no good very bad day… and it’s not my grumpy week so what’s up with that… I worked 7-3:45… Today being Thursday, we have to do our counts… today was kids shoes… Got the sales floor done and started on the stockroom on all the boxes I hadn’t opened yet… since all the boxes were exactly where I left them on Monday… when they decide to bring up all the rest of the boxes that came in on my days off… I can barely move in the stockroom right now as it is and they want to stuff it some more… I asked if they could wait an hour til I finished the count but nooooooo… And I lost it… I was so mad… and they could tell… the only good thing is since they brought up all the boxes, I got all the kids shoes counted… I finished and went to lunch to adjust my attitude with my cola, chimichanga, peach yogurt and my book…

After lunch I got the signs ready for tomorrow’s ad… and then spent the afternoon opening all the kids boxes since I had them all together from the count… not all put away yet but they are available to stock to the floor for back to school…

I also had no patience for my coworkers whining today either… nobody wants to be bothered with anything, it’s called working…

But before the work day ended I found out that my friend/supervisor for the past twelve years got transferred to another store… she just found out herself… tomorrow is her last day… I got all teary eyed… I miss her already… Her girls go to the same school as my boys… she answers all my school questions since she volunteers at the school all the time…

I’m going to Australia….

Once home and I checked the mail, there was a letter for son2 inviting him to a program going to Australia… it was just an advertisement but I didn’t think it was funny… I’m the one going to Australia…

If you haven’t read the book above about Alexander, he keeps saying he’s going to Australia…

I never did make it through The Lightening Thief last night… Fell asleep at 8, woke up at 9, just as it was going off, the boys turned it to America’s got Talent, I went to my room to read my book, turned on America’s got Talent and the next thing I know everyone is in my bed watching the show… So it was 10 before I got back to sleep… I’m thinking this is why son2 has been so grumpy… we’re getting him up at 6:30am to practice for school starting but he is still staying up late for summer…

I’m feeling better now… After work I had a Cactus Cooler soda and a handful of tortilla chips… checked my email… talked with hubby and son2… son3 did five pages of practice math today and read two chapters in his Prince of Persia book… I made chilli dogs and curly fries for dinner… and now we are watching Smokey and the Bandit…

Haven’t seen son1 yet… he’s off buying his new used tires, four tires for $160… brand new, $850… he was trying to find a place still open that could mount and balance them for him…

It’s almost 9pm, do you think any of us are ever going get to bed early… I have to be to work at 6am tomorrow… so as soon as Bandit is done, it’s everyone to bed….

Happy Journaling…