January Twelfth

We’re flying through the new year already… The boys are three days back at school… And I’m still trying to get organized…

Hubby, son2, son3 and I are watching Legend of the Guardians; Owl of Ga’hoole… Son1 is off at the gym with his friend, using a free week pass…

Today I was off… I slept in, letting son1 and son2 get off to work and school their selves… hubby and I got son3 off to school including our walk… once home we had breakfast, went job searching online… I cleaned out the paper files for my entry for The Motivation Station for tomorrow… watched Emergency… picked up son3… math, spelling, and two paragraphs on Martin Luther King Jr for homework… first item I put into the shredder was too big and I broke the shredder… hubby tried to fix it but will continue tomorrow… several loads of laundry done and vacuumed… made dinner… and now we are watching the movie… plenty more I wanted to do but run out of day so quickly…

Was so nice to get away last weekend for a couple of hours to the snow… the boys and hubby sledded… I enjoyed the sun that we found above the fog… we had a picnic in the car…

I have been so grumpy and down this past week… part PMS and part  dreary winter weather… of course haven’t seen Chuck since before Thanksgiving… so maybe he is finally coming again… I have been eating out of control… still trying to get back to control eating so I can lose some more pounds… have gained just three or so over the holidays…

Lots of changes at work again or actually changing back to the old way… Still trying to recover from the holidays, such a mess… and everyone still shopping, every day we are still busy… and people are so messy…

Still not sure about the whole lead situation at work… Supervisor still doesn’t know if she will get the position she applied for and starting to change my mind if I want to apply for the shoe lead position if she leaves… just so much drama…

Only six more weeks of unemployment for hubby… of course the unemployment extensions were approved by the government… but hoping hubby gets a job before we have to deal with that… we made a new plan for job hunting and applying again today… we were stuck in a bit of a loop at the places we kept applying to…

Son1 will be moving into an apartment with a friend on February first… very nice, two bedroom, upstairs, across from the pool… girlfriend is not going back to city college but will be going to a cosmetology school starting at the end of the month…

I kept meaning to mention the results of hubby’s 24hr blood pressure monitoring… it was perfectly fine and the doctor will not be raising his blood pressure medicine… she still is not believing he just has white coat syndrome and his pressure is only high when she takes it…

Time to get the boys ready for bed and school and read with son3…

Wednesday: water, vitamins, green tea tablet… breakfast~hot chocolate, cereal with yogurt… lunch~black eyed peas, cola… BBQ chips… dinner~chicken, pasta with marinara sauce, salad, peach wine with lemon lime soda… chocolate pudding cake with ice cream…

Tuesday: water, vitamins… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… lasagna… tortilla chips… dinner~chicken, pasta, salad, johnny cakes, peach wine with lemon lime soda… chocolate pudding cake with ice cream…

Monday: water, vitamins, greet tea tablet… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… lasagna, gingerbread cake… dinner~tacos, baked potato, scrambled eggs, water… hot chocolate with ice cream…

Sunday: water, vitamins… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… mini tacos, brownie… dinner~chili dog, french fries, salad, water… brownie with ice cream…

Saturday: hot chocolate… water, vitamins, green tea tablet… breakfast~scrambled eggs, hash browns, ham, English muffin with jelly, hot chocolate… cola… dinner~mini tacos, taquitos, chimichanga, refried beans, tortilla soup, salad, water… root beer float, brownie…

Friday: water, vitamins… breakfast~cereal with yogurt… cola… lunch~ham sandwich… Ritz crackers, cola… dinner~mini:tacos, burritos, chimichangas, taquitos, refried beans, wine with lemon lime soda…

Thursday: water, vitamins, green tea tablet… lunch~chimichanga, yogurt, cola… tangelos, ham… tortilla chips… dinner~turkey burger, lasagna, black eyed peas, corn bread, wine, lemon lime soda… toffee candy… hot chocolate…

Wednesday: hot chocolate… breakfast~yogurt with cereal… vitamins, water… lunch~tortilla soup, cola… lemon cookie… chocolate chip cookies… potato chips…

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I am feeling really good this New Years Day…

I got off work at 3 yesterday, came home to check email and started in on cooking… I made a big pot of black eyed peas with ham, tomatoes and onions… A big pot of tortilla soup with chicken, zucchini, corn, onions and tomatoes… and Chinese food that hubby picked up from the frozen food section at the grocery store…

Stir fry, fried rice, sweet and sour chicken, orange chicken…

For Christmas I had a bottle of fruit flavored Arbor Mist with lemon lime soda… For New Years I am having the blackberry flavor… which holiday should I have the peach flavor with…

My plates from New Years Eve… tortilla soup and Chinese food… There is a big dish of corn bread in the oven now to go with the black eyed peas tonight and any leftovers we want from last night… and I am making bean dip for son3 to go with his tortilla chips…

This mornings hot chocolate with chocolate covered peppermint marshmallows from the Christmas basket…

One of the mom’s from son3’s class works at a preschool and the preschoolers made calendars for his class… I hung it up today…

Today I was still in a cooking mood… So I made gingerbread cake…

Lemon cake mix made into lemon cookie squares…

A pizza sized peanut butter cookie…

A pizza sized Nestle Toll House chocolate chip cookie…

Cooking in the oven…

A second pizza sized Nestle Toll House chocolate chip cookie…

Hubby took pictures of me cutting the three pizza cookies all at the same time…

Since I’ve lost weight, I haven’t been able to wear my wedding rings as they fall off… I really miss them… first thing on the to do list when hubby gets a job… resize rings…

Big tub of cookies….

 

Hubby took down the tree today…

Will be a week or so before everything is down and back in the storage tubs…

Holly says let me in, it is cold and wet out here….

Last night we watched Vampire Sucks and so did the movie, lol… for some reason son3 liked it and watched it again today… we then watched two episodes of Hercules… the boys were on computer games… I was on face book games and fell asleep at one point… so did hubby… son3 was bored with all the waiting for the new year and didn’t see what all the excitement was about… we toasted with Dick Clark with sparkling apple cider… son1 texted Happy New Year from girlfriend’s… we still have yet to see him since he left yesterday…. he has a three day weekend… Today hubby and the boys watched Speed Racer the movie… The corn bread is now done and we are going to eat and watch The Big Bang Theory Season One… Back to work tomorrow but only 30 hours this week, but still lots to do… But good getting home early so son3 and I can finish his Mission project… the boys still have one more week off…

Happy Journaling…

December Thirtieth

Tomorrow is New Years Eve already… a whole week since Christmas Eve already… This week was much faster than last week… Maybe cause we were waiting for Santa last week…

If you strolled through the slideshows below you saw that we had a very nice Christmas… The boys got more than enough and even got into the giving spirit this year… Son1 got hubby a hand held tool and me a Nora Roberts Book… and then from him and girlfriend got me and hubby gift cards for the movies and Red Robin… he said we had to go just for us and son2 would babysit son3… son2 didn’t know this but he said ok… or hubby and I can go when they are in school… a date just for us, we won’t know how to act… and then son1 got gifts for son2: a hard drive for his Xbox and all his old comic books… and for son3: a build a bear/dog with storm trooper outfit… son2 bought son3 a Wimpy Kid book at the school book fair with his lunch money and a whole box of toys that he cleaned out from his room… son3 made cards for everyone and then some… son1 also got gifts for hubby and I from son2 and son3… a movie for hubby and a Castle book for me…

I survived Christmas Eve at work… We were way busy but I opened boxes all day… a week later and I am still trying to wade through all the boxes finding all the shoes everyone wanted for Christmas that they can now buy with their gift cards… Once home we had a wonderful ham dinner that hubby made… then we drove around our neighborhood looking at Christmas lights… the boys opened their Christmas Eve present which was Despicable Me, but they watched the bonus disc that came with it… put the boys in bed so Santa could come… from 10:30-midnight I watched Mrs. Miracle, very cute… Santa came and I was finally asleep by 1am… and I had been up since 4:30am, my regular time to get ready for work but I didn’t work til 10am…

Christmas morning we leisurely got up, the boys never wake up early for Christmas, we usually have to wake them… we showered, hubby made orange rolls and hot chocolate, son1 came home and girlfriend came over and we opened presents from 10:30-1:30pm… the rest of the day we ate, played with our gifts, ate some more, watched movies and I was asleep early…

This week we have had a lot of rain… son3 was wearing hubby’s rain boots so he could go outside to see the Christmas lights in the rain… It was very windy too and now very cold… in the 40’s today… Hubby has taken down all the yard decorations and lights outside… only the ones on the house left to take down and then everything inside including the tree…

 

I’ve been hustling at work this week… opening boxes, stocking and doing markdowns… we are still tore up and slowly getting the floor back together… next week is supposed to be the slowest shopping week of the year… of course we don’t have many hours either… but hopefully we can get cleaned up and the floor stocked…

Hubby had an interview today… He didn’t remember exactly applying for the position as it was for a bar and grill at the airport and he has no restaurant experience… but I was excited they called and it was practice for interviewing as it’s been 13 years since his last interview… being it was at the airport he had to pay to park and they didn’t validate, how rude, $6… and they had already hired someone so if he didn’t hear from them she passed her drug and background check… it’s ok though as he didn’t want it as he can’t see himself working at a food place, waiting tables… it was for a supervisor position but still having to fill in where needed… Hubby also had to wait for an hour for the interview, as his appointment was at 9am, but the interviewer had a work emergency and then a conference call… so he was finally interviewed at 10am and it only took about fifteen minutes…

I went through all the goodies from our Christmas basket from Rhode Island… I just finished having one of the toffee squares… haven’t used anything yet, but we will…

Now we are done with dinner, hubby made egg mcmuffins with ham… we are watching Knight and Day… pretty good, funny, lots of action… I like Cameron Diaz…

After hubby got back from his interview he took the boys to Target to use their gift cards they got for Christmas from friends and family… son2 bought some Halo megablox and son3 got Dragon Universe megablox… and they both still have money left on their gift cards…

Son1 is now finished with his part time job as of last Sunday and now has a three day weekend from his full time job… he was acting supervisor this week and put in overtime every day…

Gonna finish the movie and go to sleep… I barely make it past 8pm lately… hope I make it to midnight tomorrow night for the happy new year..

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December Twenty Third

What a fast day… and it does not feel like Christmas Eve will be tomorrow… at least not until 6pm when I get off work tomorrow… today I got to work at 6am and had to do the weekly shoe count… today was women’s… of course the hand held was not working for me… we opened at 7am… I finally finished at 9: 30am… went to lunch… and then opened boxes… which seemed more like an hour instead of three… I think I have finally arrived at the part of the mountain of boxes that was for black friday… so I’m not as caught up as I wanted to be by Christmas…

Got home, had something to eat and played frontierville on facebook all evening…

Son2 was finishing up his gift for his party and still needed to shower and was waiting for his laundry in the dryer… so he was an hour late getting to his party… another half hour before hubby goes to pick him up…

Here is the card he made in 3-D form from the video game Fallout…

The inside: he made a pocket for the money to go in…

Hubby finished son1’s girlfriend’s gifts from us… a very pink reindeer ornament, a pinecone ornament and a Hello Kitty candy… they are wrapped… but tomorrow I’m thinking son2 still has to help son1 finish wrapping… son1 should be done and on his way home from his last night at his part time job until he decides to maybe go back in the summer…

Hubby made pumpkin pies today… and son3 and I finished making our cards for each other, hubby and son1 and son2… we used lots of stickers… tomorrow I have to put the ham in before I go to work… and hubby and son3 are making cookies… for Santa…

Son1 just finished reading the Christmas story from the Children’s Bible to hubby and I…

And tomorrow we have to put out the stockings, write a note for Santa, put the family presents under the tree, the boys have a Christmas eve present to open, have ham for dinner and sleep…… so Santa can come…

Hubby is getting ready to pick up son2, son3 is off to watch Stuart Little 3 and I’m heading to jammies and finish Criminal Minds since I fell asleep last night and missed it…

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December Twenty Second

With all the rain we have been having, we have been having ants in the house… mainly the bathrooms… and the pet food… yesterday morning I awoke to a ton of ants in my bathroom and in Holly’s food… I was almost late to work by taking the time to divert their trails…

At work we were very messy on the sales floor but the stockroom was clean as they had hidden the messes for the visit… I spent the first four and a half hours stocking… went to lunch… wanted to continue stocking but we were busy with Christmas shoppers by then so spent the last three hours opening boxes… we waited and waited but the visitors never came… once home I got a message from the supervisor that they had cancelled…

Last night we took the boys to look at Christmas lights…

This is a house in our neighborhood that out does himself each year…

Lighted houses were few in our neighborhood so we went to the next town over where we know of a whole neighborhood that lights up… There was a line of cars when we got there…

This house had the lights timed to the music…

A robot Santa dancing like the Santas on Santa Clause 2…

There were many nativity scenes…

And a leg lamp from The Christmas Story; “you’ll shoot your eye out”…

When we got home, there was a huge box on the porch… Inside was a huge basket filled with lots of goodies all the way from Rhode Island… A wonderful Christmas surprise…

Even though I was very tired and looking forward to sleeping since I was off today… I stayed up til past eleven watching The Holiday… I love this movie… So cute…

Today hubby made cranberry orange pancakes for breakfast… very yummy… Son3 found many uses for the box from the gift basket today…  a shield for fighting the bad guys…

A foot rest while playing his video games…

And a table for making his Christmas cards… We didn’t finish our cards yet… I got grumpy… son2 wasn’t making cards but he got grumpy trying to figure out what to make his friend for the gift exchange tomorrow… he decided to give money and was going to use it to make an origami of some sort… but was not having the patience… hubby and I were trying to help him get ideas of what to make so I didn’t get the cards done that I am giving to the boys and hubby… then son2’s grumpiness passed off on to me… and then I realized it was past five and we were all hungry and I hadn’t figured out dinner yet… so hubby made breakfast for dinner again… he had gone to the grocery store today and we were going to make Chinese food but we will save that for New Year’s Eve instead… For Christmas Eve I am making a ham with all the fixings…

A couple of weeks ago hubby painted and sanded son3’s fort… I’d been meaning to share the picture… hubby is almost done making son1’s girlfriend some Christmas ornaments: pine cone and reindeer… guess he gave up on the origami too…

I did vacuum the house today and cleaned both bathrooms… washed all the rugs and towels… I have been putting a load in the wash every day after work to keep up on it since today and Christmas day are my days off this week…

I was a bit grumpy too this afternoon cause I think it is bugging me that I have to work 10-6 on Christmas Eve or actually that I have to work at all… the other two associates on my team that only got nine hours have today through Christmas Eve off… and the two seasonal associates on the sales side also have Christmas Eve off… The rest of us are working… I think everyone should have to work if only for three hours or so… just to be fair… and I know son1 has been working non stop for the last couple of months but now he has four days off from his full time job and I think tomorrow is his last day at his part time job… and the boys are off from school… and unfortunately hubby is off… why am I always working… oh yeah, I’m the Mom……..

This evening has gone fast… It’s already 8:30… Time to get ready for bed… and watch Criminal Minds from last week… Finishing up my hot chocolate… wonder what else we have in the form of chocolate…….

Happy Journaling…