September Ninth

Today was a pretty good day but now I am grumpy… Everything and nothing, so it will probably pass…

We had a big visit at work on my two days off… The department looked great, why can’t we do that all the time and not just for visit… of course a lot of stuff was hidden and I will find it as I open boxes… I located a bunch of shoes into the stockroom today… went to lunch… sorted the signs for tomorrow’s ad… located more shoes into the stockroom… covered the sales floor while the other associate went to lunch… located more shoes into the stockroom… I got over 18,000 steps on the pedometer at work today…

Came home and became grumpy… think I am just tired… trying not to be grumpy with hubby…. but…… once home did homework with son3… math page and spelling words… and write a paragraph… and then I made dinner too… hmmm didn’t I just work all day… and hubby was on the computer playing… checked email for job alerts… since grumpy with hubby didn’t talk to him about what job searching he did today… I noticed he did some more yard work… and he went to Target to pick up a few essential items we needed like toilet paper but he bought the wrong kind… he didn’t open the windows back up when he got home or turn on the fans, so when I got home I was fixing them since it was 76 degrees outside and 78 in the house… he did do the dishes after dinner while I was studying spelling words with son3… I was trying to play a few games at facebook but my laptop kept freezing up…

Son1 is now home after 8pm and filling out an application for his old job at Cycle Gear to have a part time job with his full time job…

I’m ready for bed… early to work tomorrow to set the ad…

Son3 is looking at his Lego catalog and dreaming about everything he wants to buy when hubby finds a job… and keeps saying, oh yeah no talking about shopping… ya think…

Hubby is watching Bones repeat on TV… I should watch it with him… I want chocolate… I had an It’s It ice cream last night after going to bed, hubby brought it for me, it was the last one in the fridge…

Today I ate: vitamins, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… dinner~hot dog, chicken strip, corn on the cob, baked beans, potato salad… and chocolate if I find some…

Happy Journaling…

September Eighth…

Today was a better day… Had more job alerts in the email and even found more job search engines to sign up at… Hubby applied at another job and we even saw his position that he got let go from advertised at the new site we found… hubby had mixed feelings about that…

Son1 and son2 got to work and school this morning and hubby and I slept in again til after seven when we had to get son3 up for school… walked son3 to school, had breakfast, hubbies job searching stuff online, checked email, washed son1 and son2’s bedding, watched Emergency, tidied up my room a bit, watered the houseplants, walked to pick up son3, it was early day, did homework, he had spelling, two math pages, and write a rough draft for his paragraph, read a bit of blogs and make dinner, mostly leftovers…

Now it is freezing in here… I have shorts on, a long sleeve shirt and socks… have all the windows open and turned off some of the fans… It is only 75 right now at 7pm… Isn’t it great!!

Saw son3’s kindergarten teacher today while we were picking up son3 and she pointed out that I had lost weight and looked good… she asked how I did it and I said, just don’t eat, lol… I’ve been eating too much this week, need to reel me in again… get in the right frame of mind to only eat when hungry and stop when full…

Today the long sleeve shirt I’m wearing I bought way cheap on clearance a couple of years ago but never wore it cause it was too small but it was too cute to pass up… anyway it now fits with extra room… I was talking to hubby today and noticed his eyes kept wandering… I was like what are you looking at, you aren’t listening to me… he said I really like that shirt and you look so good….

Son1 was here after work, then had to go bring a Jeep part to a friend, then went to help a friend moving load the truck real quick, just ten minutes, he just got back an hour and a half later… now he’s hungry and needs a shower wants to play his XBox game that he was playing before everyone interrupted him…

Hubby and I got sucked into America’s Got Talent again last night, so we will be watching the results tonight as they narrow down to the last four…

Today I ate: breakfast~frosted flakes, water, vitamins, green tea tablet… mini chocolate chips… bbq chips… lunch~yogurt, cola… golden fishies… dinner~turkey burger w/bun, rice, baked beans, mashed potato, potato salad, green beans, corn on the cob, water…

Happy Journaling…

September Seventh

Today was a blah day… son1 was off to work on his own… I got son2 off to school and went back to bed til 7am when I had to get son3 up and off to school… hubby and I walked him to school and took the long way back… hubby went online to check all his job websites but not much popping up today, maybe cause of the holiday weekend… I checked all my email… paid two bills… scheduled birthday cards on facebook… got the birthday cards going out in the mail done for the month… played a bit on facebook… loaded the dishwasher, but haven’t run it yet… did three loads of laundry but haven’t put it away yet… hubby and I walked and picked up son3… homework with son3 was two math pages and spelling… pulled out the leftovers for dinner… and here it is 8pm already… son1, son2 and girlfriend are watching Wipeout… son3 is hurrying in the shower so he can watch too…

I did not have a good eating day… I am coming down the other side of Chuck… and since it was a good month going in, it is not so good coming out… sinking into a black hole… hey but I just realized my headache is finally gone… I thought it was a hormonal headache and not a hubby lost his job headache… I do hate though that one minute I’m feeling good and then I remember hubby doesn’t have a job and we are still waiting on unemployment…

Today I ate: breakfast~frosted flakes, vitamins, water… shredded wheat… lunch~slice of vegetable pizza, cola… spoonful of chocolate frosting… cactus cooler… popcorn… dinner~2 hotdogs, rice, baked beans, veggies, corn on the cob, mashed potato, potato salad, water… I had a bit of everything for dinner… and now I am fuller than I have been in a while and I don’t like it… but bad days are bound to happen…

It is way windy outside… shouldn’t have to turn the air conditioner on again til hopefully Saturday…

So much I wanted to do today… off again tomorrow… maybe I’ll be inspired…

Happy Journaling…

September Sixth~Labor Day…

I was up early and off to work this morning… time and a half plus holiday pay… and I had lots to do at work so the day went fast… I scanned the men and athletic shoes for missing displays… helped clean a bit from all the shoppers from yesterday… cleaned up the women athletic shoe wall as the shoes and the shelves were on the floor… opened boxes… went to lunch… opened boxes… and located athletic shoes into the stockroom…

Came home… checked email… cooked hotdogs, turkey burgers, corn on the cob, baked beans, curly fries and potato salad…

Hubby did lots of honey dos around the house and got son2 on his chores and homework… son1 was home today, put his top back on his jeep since the temps are cooling down and rented a skateboard game that son2 and son3 watched him play…

Last night son1 and girlfriend went out with their friends and we got to see girlfriend’s new ring… tomorrow they will take it in to get sized again… they put it in to be sized when she first got it but after picking it up, doesn’t seem like they sized it all… It was pretty, nice and small, just enough and she likes it… she’s not in any hurry to rush the relationship along any time soon…

I finally got to watch the pilot movie for Emergency last night on my season one DVD set and I ate some chocolate covered Rasinettes… hubby and son2 watched it with me…

Now we are watching National Treasure with Nicholas Cage and I finally had a bit of time to read a couple of blogs…

Now I’m off for the next two days, lots to do and more job hunting with hubby…

Today I ate: vitamins, greet tea tablet, water… lunch~chimichanga by El Monterey in the blue bag for Sheri who was asking, yogurt, cola… hand went in the BBQ chip bag again… dinner~hot dog, potato salad, baked beans, curly fries, 2 corn on the cob…

Happy Journaling…

September Fifth…

Saturday we decided to have a relaxing day with a break from job looking and emotional roller coaster riding… Of course I can’t relax and got a headache…

Hubby made pancakes for breakfast… son1 went off with friend S to get coffee and doughnuts… son1 wanted to go 4 wheeling but no one wanted to go with him so friend was soothing him with doughnuts…

son2 did homework and went with son1 later in the morning to find a shift knob for son1’s jeep that broke off when he was installing new clutch… they didn’t find anything son1 liked… stopped at friend S’s house and then dropped son2 off at home and they went to the junk yard to see if there were any there… back home son1 took son2 to storage to get his guitar and found his work shirt that he had been missing for weeks… must have gone to storage the last time he wore it… later in the evening son1 went back to friend S’s house with girlfriend… ended up getting sick to his stomach and spending the night… think he didn’t drink enough water out and about in the hot day…

son3 of course played Roller Coaster Tycoon all day taking a break to watch Roughnecks…

Hubby trimmed some trees in the yard, played on his computer doing some art work, got gas in the car and sent off a resume online…

I worked on my Motivation Station entry for Thursday, made Jell-O, corn on the cob and potato salad for Monday, laundry, dishes, updated the checkbook, and spent a little time at Career Builder looking at available jobs…

We had leftovers for dinner and watched the rest of our Wild Wild West DVD… We were all very tired, well except for son3 who’s never tired, and we went to bed early and hubby and I watched Bones… we are still turning off the air conditioner at night and keeping it at 82 during the afternoon… The PG&E bill came yesterday, may have contributed to my headache as it was $463… interesting though that the bill runs through 8/26 and we cut way back on the AC on 8/27 so next months bill should be way lower… although this new bill was more than last month and we have since replaced the filter, replaced the clothes dryer  and dish washer with better energy efficiency so must have been hotter in August than July…

However we didn’t get very good rest as Danny was barking at every noise since the windows are open and the fans are going… so it was later this morning that my headache finally went away…

Saturday I ate: breakfast~vitamins, green tea tablet, one pancake with syrup and blueberry jelly, french vanilla hot chocolate with a marshmallow… lunch~one slice vegetable pizza, water… dinner~macaroni and cheese, ravioli, water… popsicle…

Today I was up early and off to work… changed out a few signs, changed out a sale table, stocked men’s shoes, cleaned up our signing that the painters took down, sorted boxes, went to lunch, opened boxes, off at 3pm…

son1 was home and feeling better having had some toast, two corndogs and lots of liquids… he and son2 watched Balls of Fury… son3 still on Roller Coaster Tycoon… son2 mowed the lawn and did some chores… he still has homework to finish and son3 needs to get in the habit of reading some books not just video games… hubby worked in the yard all day today…

Since home, I have showered, put son2’s laundry in the dryer, had to take mine out, checked email, saved hubby a job to his job file at Career Builder from his alerts, made dinner and wrote this entry… Hubby has picked a movie to watch… we voted for the new Star Trek… dinner is now ready, just some chicken, mashed potatoes and veggies and left over pizza…

Today I ate: vitamins, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… hubby opened the BBQ chips when I got home so had my hand in the bag a few times… dinner~chicken, mashed potatoes, veggies, water…

Happy Journaling…

September Third

What a long, fast day! Got to work early… Big Labor Day weekend ad to set today… Had help… I put up all the sale and hanging signing… Changed out the sale tables… Printed missing signs… went to lunch… spent two hours clearing all the 2500 sign exceptions in the computer because I did not have a hand held to scan the signs… put up the signs I printed… and had one hour left to open boxes…

Came home… checked the mail… hubby has a phone interview with unemployment on the 13th… changed my shirt and walked with hubby to pick up son3… back home checked email and had a tuna sandwich… son2 asked if he could go online and I said you know the answer to that… “do his chores and homework”… of course he is thinking three day weekend, I have lots of time to do chores and homework… He huffed! I got Grumpy! yelling and lecturing by me and hubby… son2 went to his room to do homework… as quickly as it came my grumpiness was gone… Sheesh, did I not warn everyone when I got home that Chuck had come… I’m seven days early… everyone save themselves… but no, they like to live dangerously…

Hubby and I went to the grocery store… We are stocked back up for the time being…

Got the deli pizzas for dinner… Three for $21… and we watched Disney’s The Emperors New Groove… and now it is 9:40 already… son2 is asleep on the floor… son3 is fixing his water bottle with cold water… hubby is watching a lady paint flowers on TV… she makes it look so easy… son1 got to be supervisor today at work, of course haven’t seen him yet today, he is probably off with girlfriend or friends straight from work…

It was supposed to be 106 today but only got to 101 or so…  it’s down to 86 now… will be 101 tomorrow and then only 77 next Thursday… I noticed on the way home some of the trees are starting to change their leaves for Fall…

I am so tired…. and so ready for bed and sleeping in tomorrow…

Today I ate: vitamins, green tea tablet, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… tuna sandwich, water… dinner~two slices Hawaiian pizza, two slices vegetable pizza, water… popsicle…

Happy Journaling…

September Second…

Today was a nice quick day at work… Got there early to help a coworker finish our weekly count… located shoes in the stockroom,went to lunch, prepared the signs for tomorrow’s ad, opened boxes and it was time to go home…

Hubby spent the day looking for places to apply online… he also got son3 to school, washed the dishes and picked son3 up… I got homework done with son3 and we read four Bernstein Books for his AR reading that he is behind this week… We are still only using what we have in the house for meals… so dinner was leftover, veggies, rice and chili… we also added a frozen macaroni and cheese dish, canned raviolis and pizza rolls… son3 also wanted corn dogs… tomorrow after I get home from work, hubby and I are going grocery shopping… we have not spent a penny yet since hubby was let go… we will also need gas in the car so I can get to work next week… and the van payment is due but it is the last one and the van is paid off…

Hubby got his unemployment papers today explaining his benefits… now we are waiting to see if his job will appeal or hopefully it was just ugly rumors he heard…

Son1 and girlfriend are off celebrating their anniversary… son2 said he talked to son1 earlier and he had already given her the ring right after work and she cried of course… will have to wait til this weekend probably to hear how their date went…

Son3 is watching Chicken Run and we are watching a couple of episodes of Star Trek Next Generation… showers have already been taken and we will be in bed early tonight… last night we stayed up til 11:30 watching The Back Up Plan, but it was good… and too funny…

I still need to finish cleaning up from dinner… we have all the fans going and the air set at 82… it got up to 100 today… I have 15 minutes of my latest True Blood to watch and hubby and I will probably watch a Bones while going to bed… son2 has to finish the last two McHale’s Navy on our current disc and then they both can go back to Netflix… tomorrow we are getting Balls of Fury for son1…

Today I ate: water, vitamins, green tea tablet… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… dinner~rice, chili, green beans, corn, macaroni and cheese, ravioli, 2 pizza rolls, cactus cooler…

Happy Journaling…

 

September First

I am pooped today! Hubby and I were busy today…

I was up at 5:30, son1 off to work, son2 off to school… hubby was up, we walked son3 to school… son3 had a misstep and fell and skinned his knee on the way to school… so stopped at the nurse’s office for clean up and band aide… sent son3 off to class and walked back home… once home hubby gave me a haircut after breakfast… I set him up on the computer with places to look up for applying… worked on my entry for The Motivation Station… I’ve been doing laundry all day… still have all to fold and hang up… As hubby was applying online, I was getting alerts and emails for them that I would check on the laptop… Fixed us tuna fish sandwiches for lunch… hubby was still applying and I was watching Emergency and still finishing my TMS entry while helping hubby find more dates today…

Time to pick up son3 so walk back to school and back home… Hubby back online finishing up final application for the day… I did homework with son3… Got another email reply that sent us to another job search website finding anther place to apply at… So I filled it out quickly for hubby while he told me the answers and started dinner… I’ve lost track at how many places hubby applied to today…

Son2 got home from school and was supposed to be doing homework as son1 was on his way home and wanted son2 to go the mall with him… hubby found son2 playing video games instead of homework, son1 got home aggravated that son2 wasn’t ready… hubby reprieved son2 after a lecture and off son1 and son2 went to the mall…

Tomorrow is son1 and girlfriend’s one year anniversary… son1 ordered her an edible Hello Kitty fruit bouquet to be delivered to her work tomorrow… He and son2 went to the mall to look at rings, so she is getting a small diamond on a silver band… and he got her a card and rented The Back Up Plan which I am hoping to watch tonight before he takes it to her house tomorrow… He says she can take him out to dinner tomorrow…

Now hubby has been watching McHale’s Navy… son3 is still watching it and drawing pictures… son2 is in the shower… son1 is impatiently waiting for son2 to get out of the shower so he can take a shower… and son2 still has homework to finish and needs to print out his report…

We’re all up bright and early tomorrow to do it all again…

Today I ate: breakfast~shredded wheat, no milk, water vitamins green tea tablet… lunch~tuna fish sandwich, tortilla chips, cola… dinner~two corndogs, rice, chili, corn, green beans, water… popsicle…

Since we are back in the high 90’s to low 100’s I have the air conditioner back on and set at 82… still warm and muggy but better then the 84 it got up to yesterday with the windows open…

Off to get everyone settled so I can watch The Back Up Plan…

Happy Journaling…

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August Thirty First

Just a quick entry before I become a complete lump for the night… I had a vacation day today… I was up at 5am… son1 off to work, son2 off to school… hubby and I walked son3 to school… it was nice and cool this morning… this evening a bit warm at 84… hubby and I spent four hours on the computer this morning uploading and editing his resume for unemployment and career builder… even applied at one place at career builder… also got all the dates/phone numbers/addresses from the past twenty years for all resume and application needs… and hubby cleaned out a bunch of papers he came across…

I vacuumed, started filling the new bookcase with son3’s books, washed sheets and blankets, between hubby and I we got the dishwasher loaded and dinner made… and I did homework with son3 after we walked to pick him up… I spent time playing games at facebook which I need to just let go for right now… but needed a bit of vegging…

son1’s new plan of the day is that the company friend S works at is hiring drivers with just permits… so he would just have to pass the written driving test at the DMV and he could do all his training at his friend’s job if they hired him… so he wouldn’t have to go to truck driving school and wouldn’t have to get a part time job to go with his now full time job but of course would have to quit his now full time job as the driving job would pay more…

We watched a couple of episodes of McHale’s Navy… showers are done… and now watching Family Guy… We’re all ready for bed…

Today I ate: breakfast~shredded wheat-no milk, vitamins, water… lunch~chicken strip, rice, peas, tortilla chips… dinner~chicken, rice, corn, chili… yellow cake w/chocolate frosting…

Happy Journaling…

August Thirtieth

Watching Wild Wild West with hubby and son2… son1 has gone off to bug son1 and girlfriend or keep girlfriend company as son1 is looking for original Jeeps that people want to get rid of for a couple of hundred bucks so he and his Papa can rebuild it…

I’m tired… I’m getting no where fast at work… yesterday and today I had small ads to set up… yesterday I stocked the sale tables and today I scanned my divisions… both days I am trying to put shoes away in the stockroom but because we have to locate them on the handheld it takes forever…

Yesterday afternoon I signed hubby up for Career Builders… today he spent five hours rewriting his resume so now we can put it on Career Builders and at the unemployment website… since it has only been in the 80’s I turned off the air conditioner (we’ve had it set at 80 anyway), opened all the windows and turned on all the fans… it was a bit hot in the night when I closed all the windows back up but not bad… we’ll see how we do on Friday when it’s back up to 102… we watched Evan Almighty and we were all in bed at 9pm…

Today son3 was up at 5am… I go in to work early again since hubby is home… so hubby takes son3 to school and picks him up and then I’m home to do homework… son3 has a cold today though… headache, stuffy nose, sore throat… hopefully he is able to sleep tonight after being up so early… he did his two pages of math homework and two pages of spelling homework ok tonight…

Hubby has also been trimming trees and cleaning out big garbage for our big garbage pickup tomorrow… not that anything is left after the guys in their big trucks going scavenging through the neighborhood…

Son1 and girlfriend have gone off to look at a Jeep that someone had on Craig’s list… son3 is off watching Family Guy… son2 and I are eating cake… I am still 23 pounds down… it is all about the portions, so far anyway… I was reading in a magazine that our plate portions have increased 66% since The Last Supper with Jesus and the Disciples…

I am off the next two days… I have so much to do… Help hubby with online resume posting, blog entries, housework, fix the books in the new bookcase that son2 finished, homework with son3, laundry, dishes, and watch True Blood…

Yesterday I ate: water, vitamins… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… chicken strip, tortilla chips… dinner~scrambled eggs, 2 toast, turkey burger (no bun), rice, peas, pasta, water… yellow cake w/chocolate frosting…

Today I ate: water, vitamins… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… turkey burger on a bun, chili beans and corn… yellow cake w/chocolate frosting…

Happy Journaling…

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…

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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…