October Secondth

This was the fastest week… yesterday was a whole week since son3’s carnival and sleepover that he didn’t attend… yesterday wasn’t as fast as Thursday… It was twenty minutes instead of ten….

I got to work… made a list for the 7am associate to set the ad… and I proceeded to arrange and locate the boy’s shoes by brand, numerical order and sized… went to lunch… I am finally on the last book of The Percy Jackson series… organized more boy’s shoes and went home…

Walked with hubby to pick up son3… hubby brought son2 to the homecoming football games… son1 and girlfriend left for Disneyland… son3 played on video games… hubby and I watched Smallville and Supernatural… hubby picked up son2… and we all were asleep…

Yesterday I ate: vitamins, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… tortilla chips, cream soda… dinner~lasagna, spaghetti, garlic bread, sausage dog, pasta veggies, water… mini chocolate chips… ice cream with caramel sauce…

Today I slept all the way til eight something when I awoke with a start as son3 was standing next to my bed staring at me… He said it was time to get up… I told him to go play video games… Hubby and I slept for a bit more… son3 was back… told him to go wake son2… hubby and I were up, showered, dressed and hubby made pancakes for breakfast…

I tried to check my email… been having trouble with the laptop holding a connection… I have moved it to a different spot and it seems to be doing better… After breakfast, I made me a list and hubby a honey do list for October… and a list so hubby can pick up a few things at the grocery store tomorrow… I washed everyone’s laundry today, even son2 and son1… hubby mowed the lawns and son2 washed the cars… son3 had a special treat of playing some games online… he never did remember to ask about his friend coming over to play…

Then son1 texted me this afternoon and spoiled the mood of the day and hubby and I took it out on each other, mostly me on him…. Son1 never writes checks, however every once in a great while his bills require a check to be written… well he forgets to remember it since he relies on the online banking and everything else is by ATM that he can track daily… anyway he texted me that he was negative dollars and doesn’t get paid til next Friday… Remember he’s at Disneyland… I’m wondering why he’s telling me this except for I’m the mom… nothing I can do with hubby not working… wondering why he’s even in Disneyland… I told him it was going to be a long week til he got paid… hope he has gas in the Jeep for work…

I’m still wondering what all the lessons are for hubby losing his job… It is so frustrating that we have spent the last year helping son1 and spending about $4000 on him and now he is about to have two jobs and hubby doesn’t have one and yet he is in Disneyland and out of money and looking to us…. Argh…

So we adjusted attitudes… it got too hot again today… 95 outside and 87 in the house… so I have the air on for just a bit at 84…

 

Now dinner is done and we are watching the second Lord of the Rings…. Think I will get some jammies and read my Percy Jackson book while they watch the movie… Still have my laundry to fold and put away… and the boys need showers… and back to work tomorrow for more organizing of boy’s shoes and then on to the girls…

Today I ate: breakfast~fried egg, two pancakes, sausage dog, fried potatoes, cola… vitamins, green tea tablet, lemonade… dinner~lasagna, spaghetti, pasta veggies, sausage dog, garlic bread, lemonade…

Happy Journaling…

September 30th…

Oops, yesterday I put the date as September thirtieth… Today is September 30th…

Last day of September… This month went so fast… Can’t believe hubby has been unemployed for over a month already… Just doesn’t seem like it…

And today was the fastest day ever… I feel like I was at work for ten minutes not eight hours… I got to work at 6am, picked up all the ad signs for the week, finished up the women’s fashion boots, located all the girl’s fashion boots by brand, numerical order and sized, went to lunch at 10:15, finished up the girl’s boots and started the boy’s shoes and it was already time to go home… I have to have the whole stockroom in numerical order by next Thursday… I still have the girl’s, toddler, all the women’s and a ton of athletic shoes to go… I’m not gonna make it… If we don’t pass on the 7th, we have a second chance on the 25th… I might be done by then… Meanwhile the boxes are piling up from receiving…

Came home, walked with hubby to pick up son3, took showers, homework with son3, hubby made breakfast for dinner, we watched an episode of Lost in Space, straightened up and now we are watching Bones and then Fringe… Son2 is watching The Big Bang Theory and son3 is watching Marmaduke again…

It is still 93 degrees here at 8:30pm… I broke down and turned on the air yesterday afternoon and this afternoon, but have it set at 84 degrees… We’ve learned this past month we can handle 84, but 86 and up get to be a bit miserable and muggy… Our temps are going down and will be to the 80’s this Sunday and then 70’s hopefully by Monday… and then maybe they will stay there… Some of the trees leaves are changing through town so it is Fall time…

I am eating too much this week… but I am chalking it up to my eating week… but I can’t keep giving into that excuse each month… as I’m still sitting at 30-33 pounds lost depending on the day… My goal is 35 pounds, so still need to get there….

Today I ate: vitamins, green tea tablet, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… tortilla chips, lemonade… dinner~scrambled eggs, fried potatoes, sausage dog, english muffin, pasta and veggies… lemonade, mini chocolate chips…

Happy Journaling…

September Thirtieth…

These pictures are from the sunrise this morning…

We’re watching Marmaduke with Owen Wilson… Pretty Funny!

Yesterday I was up and off to work early… I spent the whole day arranging the women’s fashion boots into the stockroom by brand, numerical order and sized… and I’m still not done…

Came home and walked to pick up son3 from school… We did homework, made dinner and son1 was home for dinner and rented Robin Hood with Russell Crowe… We were so confused as it had the characters from Robin Hood but was supposed to be a prequel so the story line was all different… It was good though, once you figured out who everyone was…

It was so hot…. We are back to the 100’s at the end of September…

Yesterday I ate: vitamins, green tea tablet, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… tortilla chips, lemonade…. dinner~teriyaki chicken, rice, veggies, water… chocolate covered raisins…

Today I got to sleep in… Let son1 and son2 get up and off on their own since they do it every day while I’m already at work… Then hubby and I were up and walked son3 to school… Took a longer scenic route back home this morning through the neighborhoods…

Came home, had breakfast, checked emails and job alerts… Took some pictures of roses in the backyard this morning… Hubby and I had quiet time to talk without interruptions from the boys… And then we took a nap, not meaning to… I can never sleep during the day… Guess we needed it… Woke up at noon to watch Emergency and have some lunch… Then it was time to walk and pick up son3 as it’s early day… Got his homework done, although he forgot his spelling homework… He can only get three detentions and then he can’t go on the ice skating field trip… Then I made dinner early and we watched Marmaduke…

Son1 was home from work and then off to his Dad’s to go to the funeral tomorrow for his Great Uncle… He’ll be home tomorrow night… Then he is off to work on Friday and then after work, he and girlfriend are off to Disneyland for the weekend… Disneyland has started their Halloween theme…

Son2 is trying to make plans to go to the Homecoming Game on Friday but doesn't have all the details yet…

And son3 was invited to a sleepover birthday party on Friday… So hubby and I were thinking we may have a evening alone just for us… But son3 doesn’t want to go to the sleepover… He can’t tell me why though… I’m thinking maybe too many friends going, seven in all… or maybe he doesn’t like one of the boys… or he just doesn’t know… It’s not the same when it was just him and his friend playing video games when they were planning a sleepover…

Now we are having ice cream and watching an episode of Lost in Space… Then the boys are getting ready for bed and Criminal Minds comes on tonight… I still haven’t seen Glee from last night as it didn’t record right… So now I have to watch Glee and Hawaii 50 online… And I still have to see Castle that did tape…

Everyone can let out the breath you have been holding for the last month as the check is in the mail according to the recording I called at unemployment yesterday!!

Today I ate: vitamins, water… breakfast~yogurt on Honey Bunches of Oats cereal… tortilla chips… lunch~chicken and rice, cola… tortilla chips… dinner~tomato soup, 2 tuna fish sandwiches, orange soda… ice cream with caramel sauce…

Happy Journaling…

September Twenty Seventh…

It is so hot…. and we are still being good and not using the air conditioner, since we are still waiting for unemployment to kick in… In the 100’s, isn’t it Fall… they are saying we are ten degrees above normal…

Yesterday I was off to work… Set the ad, stock the men’s work boots, scan for missing displays, go to lunch, finish resetting the men’s shoes and work boots in the stockroom, move the women’s shoes in the stockroom to make room for setting the women’s fashion boots by brand, numerical order and sized…

Came home and did my 300 crunches, spent too much time on the computer, fixed leftovers for dinner, watched Lost in Space and True Blood and fell asleep during Simpsons and then again for Family Guy… I’m so tired getting up at 4:30am every day…

Son1 was still off with his Dad and Uncle to his Grandfather’s, whose brother had died in the motorcycle accident, and visited with family members… The funeral is Thursday… He wasn’t able to come home last night as the freeway was all blocked with emergency vehicles not that they could find anything in the news today as to what the trouble was… He came home this morning, changed quick and made it to work on time…

Yesterday I ate: water, vitamins, green tea tablet… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… snack of pork roast… dinner~turkey burger on a bun, chili hot dog on a bun, curly fries, water… ice cream with caramel sauce…

Today I was off to work again to set another little ad, scan for missing displays, changed my vacation requests around on the computer, locate women’s shoes in the stockroom, lunch, start setting the women’s boots by brand, numerical order and sized in the stockroom…

Came home, 300 crunches, talk with hubby, walk to pick up son3, homework with son3 while I was on the computer, fix dinner, watch Lost in Space, girlfriend and son1 are watching Employee of the Month, hubby is playing checkers with son3 and son2 is watching Family Guy…

As soon as Family Guy is over everyone needs to head for their rooms and settle for the night… School tomorrow and I have to get up early for work, son1 too… And hubby has chores and more job searching…

And I’m off to watch my shows: How I Met Your Mother, Rules of Engagement, Two and a Half Men and Castle… Although I’ll be taping Castle as I’ll probably fall asleep….

Today I ate: water, vitamins… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… banana, water… dinner~chili dog, rice, green beans, curly fries, water…

Happy Journaling…

Bedroom Makeover

My Co Host Martha MM over at The Motivation Station is promoting a CSN Giveaway… Go check out the rules for your chance to win a $75 gift code for CSN…

Mainly you have to makeover a bedroom or show a past bedroom makeover, which is what I am doing… These pictures are from this past July when I reorganized and decluttered son3’s bedroom…

These are the before shots…

 

The decluttering in action…

And the after shots…

Happy Journaling…

Tailgating Time

Seems it’s Football Season… Although we don’t have any avid watchers here, though the boys will say The 49er’s are their favorite team… I have my favorites but it depends who’s playing on which side I’m on… The 49er’s and Chiefs were playing this morning on the TV in the break room while I was at lunch at work… Last I saw the score was Chiefs, 7-0….

What is your favorite team….

On Sundays Martha (among others) hosts a Tailgating Party to share your favorite football food and recipes…

Last night for dinner we had turkey burgers, chili hot dogs and curly fries that we’ll be having for dinner again tonight as there were leftovers…. For desert we had root beer floats…

Happy Journaling…

September Twenty Fifth

Yesterday was Friday and payday and off to work day… I had to set the ad, update the sale tables, stock the tables, went to lunch and continued resetting the men’s shoe stockroom by brand, numerical order and sized… Have to have the whole stockroom done by October 7th…

Came home and walked with hubby to pick up son3 from school… Son3 was supposed to go on a sleepover with two of his friends who are brothers last night… they had been asking all week so hubby and I told them yes and got their phone number… The boys and son3 had everything all planned out and what time… So last night I had son3 call and verify with one of the brothers that he indeed could come over by having them ask a parent while son3 was on the phone… He came back that the parent said it was tonight instead since the carnival was last night, which we wondered about… Anyway we never heard from the brothers today and son3 was busy playing his video games although he went to bed and woke up upset that he didn’t get to go to a sleepover… It was almost noon before I finally heard him laughing and enjoying his video games… I didn’t push the sleepover for tonight cause I was going to let him go but still not quite ready for him to be off at a sleepover… I told him to talk to his friends on Monday and find out what happened… Another one of his friend’s was also supposed to go too… I told him in a couple of weeks or so maybe he can invite them over for a sleepover…

Son1 was off to dinner with his friend S and then girlfriend came over and they were out and about and then back and then out and about again, but I was going to sleep by then…

Son2 had the best night… as he went over to some friend’s house, then met up with friend A and went to the carnival with him and then called to ask if he could sleep over at friend A’s…

Son2 got his progress report… PE~A, Anatomy Physiology~B, English 3~B, US History~A, Geometry~A, Zoology~B-, Cooking and Sewing~A, Draw&Paint~A…

Hubby and I watched Smallville and Supernatural…

Yesterday I ate: vitamins, green tea tablet, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… potato chips… chocolate covered raisins… dinner~pork roast, potatoes, lima beans, biscuits, grapefruit soda… chocolate covered raisins… pudding…

Today we didn’t get up til around 9am… Son1 was here… Hubby made eggs for breakfast… I discovered over at The Motivation Station, MarthaM had written up a GIT challenge for the day… GIT is Get It Together, where we motivate each other in comments all the chores we are getting done for the day… I had already made a list so I was ready for the day… Hubby was working outside, son1 and son3 were on the computers and son2 got home about noon…

I cleaned both bathrooms, three loads of laundry, washed the kitchen floor, washed the pots and pans while the dishwasher washed the dishes, updated the checkbook, paid three bills and the house payment, vacuumed, washed the kitchen garbage can, watered the houseplants, played on facebook and made hotdogs and turkey burgers for dinner…

And hubby went to the grocery store to get some milk and a couple of things for the week…

I also watched a True Blood earlier while I hung up the laundry and now we have watched F Troop and CSI NY…

Son1 had to pick up his Dad at the airport today and he’s still out and about… Son1’s Great Uncle died in a motorcycle accident the other morning, the reason for his Dad being in town… Of course his Dad just had two hernia surgeries a week ago and not sure if he should be traveling just yet… The funeral is either Monday or Tuesday and son1 has already arranged with work to go…

Son2 and son3 are reading comic books and I have just discovered an encore showing of Hawaii 50 from Monday that didn’t tape well while I was watching Castle… We are also all waiting for ice cream… It’s still 82 outside and 86 in here…

Son2 and son3 are going to camp out in the family room tonight so son3 has the feeling of having a sleep over…

I’m off to fix ice cream for everyone… Do you want ice cream in a bowl with sauce, in a cone, root beer float or a milk shake…

Today I ate: vitamins, water… breakfast~scrambled eggs, hash brown, toast, hot chocolate… cola, popcorn… dinner~turkey burger on bun, chili hotdog on bun, curly fries… ice cream with caramel sauce or actually I think I will have a root beer float instead…

Happy Journaling…

September Twenty Third

Keep thinking cool thoughts… We had our two days of fall and now we are heading back to 99 degrees this weekend…

This morning I was up bright and early for work… no son1 this morning… Once at work I replaced the missing men’s display shoes, helped with the weekly count, went to lunch, and started locating the stockroom in numerical order by size starting with the men’s shoes…

Came home and walked to pick up son3 and have just now finished doing homework at 6:30… he brought home a classwork report project to finish too so that took the longest…

Hubby said he found another place today to apply at… seems he is averaging about one place a day, as some days he finds a few and some days not…

Son1 was home from work on time today but didn’t go for a walk with son2, still time for them to go yet… he starts the part time job around the 4th of next month…

Son2 has made a bet with his friends that they will not eat meat for the next month… we are discussing the terms according to me… I agree he can forgo the meat… however just because I made the potatoes with chicken broth doesn’t mean he can’t eat them… so he’s being difficult and is now eating the meat too… saying it’s all or nothing… and I’m saying there is a difference between saying you are not going to eat meat for a month and going all out vegetarian… so fine…

Ok dinner is ready and I need to fix my plate… wanted to get this in early as Bones, Fringe and The Big Bang Theory come on tonight…

Today I ate: vitamins, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… tortilla chips, lemonade… dinner~pork roast, potatoes, lima beans, bisquit, lemonade…

Happy Journaling…

September Twenty Second…

I was off again today… I made sure son2 got up and out the door but then I went back to bed til it was time to get son3 up… Son3 is having his school carnival this week so it has been theme week… I didn’t get the newsletter til Tuesday so we missed Monday Jersey Day… Tuesday was Crazy Sock Day and today was Crazy Hair/Hat Day… Tomorrow is Mismatch Day, hubby will dress him so not a problem, just kidding… and Friday is Spirit Day and the carnival… son3 put gel in his hair for crazy hair day… at first he wanted it sticking up but then he wanted it all combed down flat… I forgot to get a picture…

Due to hubby not having a job at the moment it is a perfect excuse to not have to go to the carnival this year… We feel bad for son3 but then son3 has been going to the carnival since he was born, son2 went to the same school… and the carnival is the same every year… they were going to cancel this year due to very low involvement but for some reason they did not… Meanwhile two of son3’s friends who are brothers want him to spend the night this weekend so if that works out then he will be distracted from the carnival…

Hubby spent a bit of time on the computer job hunting and a bit of time working in the yard and a bit of time working on the computer on his artwork…

I checked email, put a roast in the crock pot, put up Fall decorations, started the dishwasher, cleaned the glass on the entertainment center, shredded papers, vacuumed, and sorted through all the paper piles on my work table… Watched Emergency and hubby watched an episode of Babylon 5… It was early day so walked to pick up son3, put potatoes and lima beans on to cook for dinner, did homework with son3, typed up my entry for The Motivation Station for tomorrow, ate dinner, hubby and the boys were watching F Troop and I washed all the pots and pans…

Now son2 is on the computer, son3 has showered and I am going to give him a practice test for his spelling words, hubby is on the computer working on his artwork… son1 came straight home from work so he and son2 could go for their walk… then he was off to his part time job to turn in more paper work and now he is at girlfriend’s…

Now I am testing son3 and waiting for Criminal Minds to come on…

I forgot to mention so I came back and added this paragraph to mention about unemployment... Nothing came today so I went to the website, although I checked before and didn't find anything that there had to be a way to check your account/status... the first time I could only find sign in stuff for job hunting... this time however I found a phone number you could call to create a pin number to call in and check the status on your checks... so called and got that set up and it said that it takes ten days from talking to the representative to receive your check... so hubby's phone interview was on the 13th so ten working days is this Friday or next Monday... so at least now we have a guide and something to call to track status...

Today I ate: vitamins, water… breakfast~apple and cinnamon oatmeal… lunch~bowl of beans, cornbread, cola… chocolate covered raisins… dinner~pork roast, potatoes, lima beans, biscuits, water…

Happy Journaling…

September Twenty First

Glee starts in just a few moments!!

This morning got off to a shaky start… Son2 left without any lunch money… said he would be fine… he did have pizza that his friends shared with him… Son1 was still having trouble with the jeep starting and then forgot his paper work to do his drug test for part time job, so had to come back to get it and then remembered he needed to get gas, so think he was late for work today…

Hubby and I walked son3 to school… then came home and I filled out three job alerts applications we found online while hubby did the dishes… and I checked my email… then I watched Emergency while I cleaned out drawers for The Motivation Station Challenge… and then I watched True Blood while still cleaning out drawers… Washed four loads of laundry that still need folding while I’m watching Glee… Hubby made lunch and I was back on the laptop reading blogs… and then it was time to walk and pick up son3 and do homework… no unemployment again today but I have a feeling it will come this week… We had leftover chicken noodle soup and watched Castle since son2 and I fell asleep half way through it last night…

Son1 found a pedometer today so he and son2 went on their walk… they are working up to running so they can be firemen…

I had plans of getting lots more done today, like putting up fall decorations, cleaning the kitchen and washing the floor, sweeping the garage, dusting, filling the birdfeeders and then some… maybe tomorrow…

Hubby finished fixing a new gate for the side fence to the back yard today…

Today I ate too much: vitamins, green tea tablet ( I had stopped taking them since I was taking cold medicine, but I am all better now), water… breakfast~apple and cinnamon oatmeal… tortilla chips… cola… lunch~PBJ, water… tortilla chips… lemonade… dinner~chicken noodle soup, tortilla chips, water…

Happy Journaling…

September Twentieth…

Last night I didn’t quite get to watch True Blood til way later in the night as son3 was watching TV with me so we were watching Funniest Videos and Family Guy…

Meanwhile son1 and girlfriend were online and son1 filled out an application for college to become a fireman… I’m thinking the girlfriend is influencing son1 to better himself… Which is good but what are her reasons… And wasn’t son2 planning on becoming a paramedic… son1 says he has wanted to be a fireman for years now… I’m not quite remembering  that… And there was talk of quitting his full time job to go to school… I hope not… I can’t keep up with his plans… He needs to pick one and stick with it… but he wants everything to just take a minute and not years….

This morning he was back on getting the part time job…

I was off to work early again in the dark… Had a little ad to set, scan athletic displays, request missing signs, print signs and put them up, go to lunch, stock men’s shoes and open boxes…

I also talked to HR about my big paycheck… It’s mine to keep… I had the choice to pay back my vacation… but I decided to instead not take my next three vacation days and save them for the week I am taking off at the end of October to that I will at least get paid enough to cover medical… So technically I already got paid my vacation in advance… and I’ll still take those three days off just not paid til later on my vacation…

Home in time to walk and pick up son3… checked email, homework with son3, made a big pot of chicken soup, ate dinner, watched Hogan’s Heroes and here I am…

Son1 took son2 mudding, washed the jeep, stopped at Walmart looking for a pedometer but didn’t find one he liked, washed the jeep again at home, having trouble with the jeep stalling out so checked on that, they ate dinner and now they are going for a walk… He also stopped by his old part time job site that he finally got the paper work for and is now in the hiring process… since he’s been gone from them for more than a year, he has to go through all the drug testing and background testing again…

Son3 is getting in the shower, the sink is still full of dishes and the new shows come on in twenty minutes… Tonight is How I Met Your Mother, Rules of Engagement, Two and A Half Men, Castle and Hawaii 50… I am off tomorrow though so can get some chores done around the house, hopefully… No unemployment today but like I told hubby, if it was denied I’m sure we would have got a response right away… Now he is just in the system and he will probably get a check this week, which is two weeks after the first statement he got without a check attached, just bubble in the answers to did you look for a job…

Today I ate: vitamins, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… potato chips… heading into my eating/salty craving week… dinner~chicken noodle soup, tortilla chips, water… maybe a bit of ice cream with caramel sauce in a bit….

And did you know that when you lose weight, you also lose weight in your feet… I usually wear a 10 1/2 wide but it is hard to find that size, so I usually get 11 which is too long or buy men’s shoes in an 8 1/2 or 9… but today out of curiosity I tried on a 10 in the stockroom and it was still too snug but I got it on, which means I might can fit in a 10 wide again…

Happy Journaling…

September Nineteenth

Last night I had a bit of a nap after my ice cream while the boys finished Lord of the Rings… Then I got up, folded the laundry and watched an episode of True Blood Season Two…

This morning I was up bright and early at 4:30am… although it is dark now still before 6am… I got lots done at work today… I got 32 hrs this week while my co parts only got 9 hrs each… Guess supervisor wants me to redo the whole stockroom, open new receipts and set all the ads… Hubby said I would be wearing an S to work this week… Today I changed out all the hanging signs, put up all the signs for today’s ad, scanned for price integrity, scanned the men’s displays, took an online training quiz, cleared the ad exceptions, went to lunch, opened boxes and located shoes in the stockroom…

Checked on my punch sheets for the last two weeks and found instead of giving me 8hrs of vacation that I had requested it gave me 48 hrs of vacation for both weeks… Fortunately HR can fix the ones I didn’t get paid for yet… Still don’t know what will happen with the paycheck I already got… Will find out in the morning when I go to HR…

Came home… hubby and I looked a bit online for jobs… I checked email and facebook… Son1 and girlfriend came over… I made hotdogs for dinner… Nice afternoon of laughing with son1 and girlfriend… son2 and son3 were playing video games… Now the sink is full of dishes… hubby and son2 are watching Hogan’s Heroes… son3 is squeezing every minute he can on his games before shower and reading… son1 and girlfriend are watching I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry… Everyone is waiting for ice cream with bananas and toppings… I ended up having caramel instead of chocolate topping last night… forgot we had choices…

Son1 is still waiting to hear about his part time job he is getting… think the manager has been on vacation… he originally wanted it to pay off his cards… but now he is saying he wants a car but still keep the jeep… the jeep is more a toy than a drive to work car and go out on dates… plus he is having transmission problems… and he is worried about when it starts raining… he also said now that friend S asked him to get an apartment together… so then the part time job would pay for rent… I don’t think he will be getting an apartment though… although hubby did say son1 mentioned if he got an apartment if he could have our blue couch… hmmmm… he has been taking the jeep mudding all weekend… mudding is when you find a puddle in a field or vacant lot… I don’t know where the puddle came from as we don’t have rain… but he found one… as he and friend S went… and then girlfriend went… and then today son2 went… and the jeep is all muddy and he didn’t wash it and is taking it to work like that tomorrow… guess to show off that he went mudding…

It is getting dark in here already at 7pm… At least it is only in the 80’s this week… supposed to be cloudy tomorrow but no rain… we never get rain…

The sink is full of dishes but I think I will go watch some more True Blood while waiting for ice cream…

Today I ate: vitamins, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… crackers and peanut butter… dinner~chili hot dog, french fries, grapefruit soda… ice cream with banana and caramel topping…

Happy Journaling…

September Eighteenth…

Today was a lazy Saturday… I’m feeling a bit better, no sore throat and only a bit of a stuffy nose… Still settled in my chest though so waiting for that to clear… And a bit of a cough…

Today hubby made breakfast… son1 was here for breakfast.. said he was going to have a quiet day at home… but of course that never happens… his friend S called and they were off to help friend S clothes shop… and they went to lunch… son2 and son1 had planned to go to Blockbuster to get an XBox game to play all day… but then girlfriend came over and they were off to Blockbuster to get a movie and eat dinner here… They are watching When in Rome… son1 hates romantic comedies but is very good at doing things for girlfriend he doesn’t like doing…

Hubby cleaned up the kitchen a bit, fixed the light in the oven and worked on the side fence… I also worked in the kitchen and yet there is all the dinner dishes waiting in there now… I mailed the PGE bill and got three more bills ready to go on Monday… I did a couple of loads of laundry and finally finished moving all the books around with the new bookcase… I checked all my email and played on facebook awhile… I want to have a day to just read blogs… Soon…

Nothing in the mail from unemployment yet… But I did update the checkbook and look up my paycheck which was Oh So Wrong… I worked thirty hours with the holiday and took a vacation day… My paycheck showed me getting 40 hours of vacation, 21 hours worked as overtime, holiday pay and double time for working the holiday which we only get time and a half… so it was about $4oo too much… Wonder how HR will sort that out… I imagine I won’t be getting paid for a couple of weeks since the money was already deposited in my bank account…

The day has gone so fast… which is a good thing… our past few Saturdays were very long… we must have felt a bit back to normal today… Although it is 7pm already… Dinner is done and we are watching Lord of the Rings, son2’s choice… Now son3 is saying it is time for ice cream… I think I will have mine with a banana and a bit of chocolate syrup…

Today I ate: breakfast~vitamins, orange juice, scrambled eggs, hash brown, English muffin with jelly… tortilla chips with salsa… dinner~chicken, scalloped potatoes, peas, carrots, beans, croissant, water…

Happy Journaling…

September Seventeenth

Last night I definitely had a fever… and was asleep by 7:30pm… I was up at 4:30 this morning feeling a bit better… I got the signs ready… had a bit of help putting them up… changed out some sale tables… found out from the supervisor that we have two weeks to make sure the floor and stockroom are set correctly for our certification… We have a lot to do to get ready… Went to lunch… and opened boxes til it was time to go home…

Still no word from unemployment… but I think that is a good thing and we will probably just get a first check… hubby says that the person on the phone said they would notify him within 48 hours but it’s way past that… so maybe she meant something else… or we’ll get something in the mail tomorrow… It’s interesting that right before this happened we were cleaning out some papers and found hubby’s unemployment papers from last time… and they still do things exactly the same… and he never got a letter or call from the last time when he did a phone interview… he did however have another phone interview at the end of his unemployment but he had gotten a full time job so he did get a letter stating he was denied unemployment because he had a full time job plus his benefits had run out for unemployment…

So once home I changed so we could pick up son3 from school and go grocery shopping… Just got some basics to go with what we have… went to Food Maxx that we used to shop at way back before they put in the big new WinCo… Food Maxx is exactly the same but seemed way small and hardly anyone was there for a Friday afternoon…

Son1 is off with girlfriend… Son2 has just got home from hanging with his friends… Son3 has been watching Transformer with hubby and me… I went through all my email… getting tons of junk email from all the job websites that I have been unsubscribing from… and we have been getting tons more hang ups on the house phone than usual… From go back to school to insurance to shopping… Now the boys have showered and we are getting ready to have ice cream and finish the movie…

I’m still tired and feeling yucky so looking forward to sleeping in a bit tomorrow… It’s not good for me to be sick though cause than poor Holly got left out two nights in a row… It’s not cooling off in here as well tonight… It’s only 81 outside but 85 in the house… I have all the fans going as usual… I have just finished my ice cream cone… It was so good… the store had chocolate and vanilla… like Neapolitan but without the strawberry… tasted just like the ice cream at the Zoo…

Today I ate: vitamins, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… two crackers with peanut butter before going to the grocery store… dinner~Top Ramen soup, tortilla chips, water… ice cream cone…

Happy Journaling…

September Sixteenth

I was up at 4:30am… I’m scheduled early this week, which means then I get off early… but boy I am tired… Made sure son1 and son2 were up and I was out the door before  them… I helped with the weekly count, changed out sale tables, put up some signs, took down some signs, got all the signs ready for tomorrows ad, went to lunch, cleaned the stockroom, put away and located shoes in the stockroom, opened boxes…

Once home, changed my clothes, got some water, walked with hubby to pick up son3, had a talk with son3 about meeting us after school and not hanging with his friends, came home, started homework with son3, hubby and me and son2 had a talk about his schedule tomorrow at school-he’s in the 350 club so they are going to a swim party after lunch and then he wants to hang with his friends after school but as usual there is no exact plan and which friends house, so that talk went on a while, still doing homework with son3, checking my email, helping hubby with a question on the main computer with job hunting, son1 came home and he was hungry, I was hungry, started pulling out leftovers, I’m now more tired, have a fever, but getting whiney, no yelling… Finally sit down for dinner and watch an episode of Hogan’s Heroes…

Now son1 is in the shower and son3 needs to study his spelling words, test tomorrow… Son2 is doing some laundry… Hubby is patrolling the yard… Now son1 wants to take son2 to Blockbuster to get a new game…Son3 is getting in the shower now… 

We watched the last half hour of America’s Got Talent last night… I felt bad for Captain Poppycock and son2 was mad cause Fighting Gravity didn’t win… And I wasn’t surprised that Michael Grimm won, I had a feeling… and hubby made a good point that Jackie was only ten and not really Vegas entertainment… Besides I’m sure they will all be getting a lot of phone calls for offers…

We still didn’t hear from unemployment today…..

Now I’m ready for bed at only 7pm… Back to work early again tomorrow… But I have a cold and a fever so I need my rest…

Today I ate: vitamins, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… dinner~beans, rice, peas, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, corn bread, water…

Happy Journaling…

September Fifteenth

Monday was an up and at work early again day… I set the ad, scanned for missing displays, stocked athletics, went to lunch, opened boxes and scanned shoes into the stockroom…

Hubby had his unemployment phone interview on Monday… They said they had to call the former employer and then we would hear in 48 hours if unemployment was approved… Today was 48 hours so maybe we will hear something tomorrow…

Monday son1 brought us humongous burritos from an actual Mexican restaurant for dinner… They were so good and we all ate the whole things except son3 who had chicken noodle soup… so son1 had a second burrito on Tuesday… We watched Role Models again… I forgot son1 had that movie and hubby really likes it and it is so funny… My favorite line is: Since you are in my personal space, can you sign my time sheet….

Monday I ate: vitamins, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… dinner~humongous burrito, water… mini chocolate chips, lemonade, I made smores for the boys so I had a marshmallow…

Tuesday I had a vacation day… But I was still up early getting son1 and son2 out the door… then hubby was up and we had breakfast and got son3 out the door… I am liking all this extra walking of taking son3 to school and picking him up… He however is not… especially when we get all the way to the school and he is not where we are supposed to meet so we get him and continue walking the long way home… Hubby was online job searching and I was online job searching in between cleaning bathrooms and vacuuming and general cleaning of the house… Son1 and girlfriend went to the last concert in the park of the season… and we watched Batman: Under the Red Hood… It was the last of the America’s Got Talent so hubby and I watched… Tonight is the announcement of the winner but they are dragging it out for two hours so I will just wait and check online to see the winner… It’s tough though to say who it might be… Probably Jackie the ten year old opera singer… although son2 wants it to be Fighting Gravity…

Tuesday I ate: vitamins, green tea tablet, water… breakfast~oatmeal… lunch~yogurt, corn dog, cola… dinner~two bowls of beans and rice, corn bread, water…

Today was my day off… Got all the boys out the door and walk son3 to school… More online job hunting and house cleaning and walking to pick up son3… homework with son3… still have to finish his nightly reading… he got a 100% on his reading test today… We watched some of season one of Hogan’s Heroes earlier… And I still need to finish Date Night that I started earlier today… Son1 and girlfriend are off to the mall shoe shopping and out to dinner… Hubby is cutting son2’s hair… It’s just been getting to 90 all this week… so just leaving the windows open and fans going is keeping it at 84 or so in the house… I have a sore throat and stuffy nose this week so I’m hoping to be in bed early watching Date Night and resting for work tomorrow…

Wednesday I ate: vitamins, water… breakfast~apples and cinnamon oatmeal… cola… lunch~two corndogs… lemonade… dinner~lasagna, garlic bread, peas, carrots, lemonade… maybe I’ll have some hot chocolate later to sooth my sore throat…

Happy Journaling…

September Twelfth…

Here it is Sunday night already at 8:30pm and I am still trying to have quiet to catch up on an entry since Friday…

Friday was off to work to set the ad… more taking down than going up… went to lunch… open boxes… talk with supervisor too much…

Came home.. tried to relax by playing facebook games but they just keep freezing up the computer, so have stopped playing them again… son1 and girlfriend went out to dinner and watched Killers at her house… and we watched Killers with Ashton Kutcher at our house, lol… and then probably watched an episode of Emergency…

Friday I ate: vitamins, green tea tablet, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… BBQ chips… dinner~baked potato, chili, veggies, cheese, lemonade… two smores…

Saturday hubby was up early, I slept a bit longer… Emotions were a bit high on Saturday again, or maybe it was just me… Hubby made breakfast after I told him it was OK… Then we had showers and were getting dressed for the day when I lost my mind… Or maybe I just wanted to fight with someone and picked hubby forgetting he won’t fight with me… The more I yell, the quieter he gets… I was feeling discouraged as I am trying to have faith and keep a good frame of mind and go with a plan… and hubby wants to pick the worst scenario and go there and put him self down when it comes to finding a job and deciding he is not qualified for the job when that is up to the people doing the hiring… Anyway we don’t hold grudges and aren’t mad at each other just the situation and the way we each handle it is so different…

And hubby and I aren’t strangers to losing jobs… Thirteen years ago, we decided to move here from the Bay area as our apartment rent was going up to a higher price then our house payment is now… So I sent tons of resumes out to random companies in the area til one called and hired hubby… He moved here a month before us, staying with family while I packed up the apartment with son1 and son2… We barely pulled up with the moving truck when Sears called and wanted me to come in and interview for a position here… Unfortunately the company that hired hubby let him go a few weeks later as the owners didn’t know what each other was doing and who hired hubby and changed the positions and told hubby he wasn’t qualified for the changes… But I figured hey it got us to Fresno… So hubby was on unemployment and just as it ran out got hired at his current job that he was just let go from… Six years ago my supervisor job was eliminated and there were no supervisor positions in the store at the time, nor full time… so as I wanted to leave for the day and plan my next move, they wouldn’t let me leave as they were creating a position for  me in shoes still at full time but with a major pay cut, but hey I still kept my full time with medical and all my vacation benefits…

But yet that was part of my grumpiness too with hubby’s job loss… and that my ex is now on disability for the next six weeks with two hernia surgeries coming up this week… my ex has had quite a few jobs and used unemployment quite a few times and been on disability just as much… I have worked for 30 years, only being off for three times: son1, son2 and son3… My job has seen me through college, bankruptcy, two marriages, three boys, buying a house and everything in between… I did quit once for my first marriage and son1 being born, but that only lasted five months and they hired me back on the spot and since I was gone less than a year, it was as if I was never gone, as I kept my anniversary date…

So after my outburst with hubby I went out and washed both cars, hosed off the driveway, hosed off the front porch, watered the plants, threw away the front door mat, changed out the decorations to some fall ones… when I finally went back inside, they boys, even son1,  had done all their chores, cleaned their rooms, did their homework… I was like, how long was I outside… guess they knew Mom was in a mood and best to be on my good side…

Hubby was on the phone with internet people again as the DSL was down, so he got that back up and running and was doing more job search and filling out applications… partly it’s frustrating as there are so many job sites that want you to sign up, that we’re signing up with too many… and then a lot promise things but after you fill out, get to the part where they want money… ummm NO… and then we are getting offers for jobs in our email but they are all automated replies for insurance sales, or work from home, or start your own business opportunities… plus going to the different job sites hubby has applied to a couple of jobs twice since they advertise at the different sites but the sites each look different so you don’t always see the company name til the end of the application…

Son2 went with son1 to the grocery store and Walmart and son1 got lunch stuff for two weeks and dog food and tooth paste and such that he needed… then son1 was off to see girlfriend as she has a cold and has not been feeling well. so he took her something to eat and our Netflix move Date Night with Steve Carell… we haven’t seen it yet… We watched Wild Wild West with Will Smith, then an episode of Emergency then I fell asleep at 9pm, I was Tired… Hubby and son3 watched Jaws 3, I woke up for the ending so we could go to bed…

Saturday I ate: breakfast~scrambled eggs, three toast w/jelly, chocolate milk… popcorn, water… dinner~two chili dogs, green beans, mixed veggies, broccoli, cauliflower, cola…

Today I was off to work… no ad to set, so got to stock men’s dress and athletic shoes all morning… went to lunch… opened boxes…

Came home, son1 was off with girlfriend at the mall… checked email, fixed dinner, got the boys in the shower early… watched Wimpy Kid… read with son3 for his AR reading for school… finally snuck off to my room to work on this entry for the last hour… hubby has his unemployment phone interview in the morning… It’s almost 9:30 and the boys need to have lights out for bed for school tomorrow… and I have to get up extra early this week as I go into work even earlier… If we can go to sleep as it was hot yesterday and today, about 94 and we have not turned on the air conditioner… we have all the fans going and the windows open though… It’s still 86 right now… but each day this week is supposed to be cooler…

Sunday I ate: vitamins, green tea tablet, water… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… boys were eating Lays potato chips, I had my hand in the bag… water… dinner~beans and rice, it was so good so I had two bowls, water…

Happy Journaling…

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…