One more day of wet weather

Tomorrow is supposed to be the last of this wet weather. Sure hope so, don't like the gloomy days, makes it so hard to get out of bed and be productive. Work was ok yesterday, but I was so tired and ache all day I curled up with a book most of the day.

Feel better today, glad to because today is a very physical work day. Except today. Today work was, well........lets just say it was a SMELLY MESS! I did what I could and as soon as I got home I changed my clothes. I still felt like I could smell it so I took a shower to. I still think I can smell it, but I think it's just kind of in my nose now. Everything has been washed. I called work and complained and told them next time I'm walking right back out the door. She asked my why I didn't today. Honestly, by the time I thought of that, I had most of the mess cleaned up. I'll know better next time.

Tomorrow's my late day so I get to sleep late tomorrow morning. Going to throw everything in the crock pot in the morning so dinner will be done before Bible study.

Both boys are working on getting ready for the written drivers test. The youngest hops in the drivers seat every time we go somewhere. I only let him drive to the end of the driveway, but sometimes even that is quite nerve wracking for me. Amazing how everything looks different, and closer, from the passenger side, lol.

Tired , tired, and more tired

Today's supposed to be the best day of the weekend. Rain is coming in for the next 2 days. We took today to spend it outside working on the yard. I love how the lawn looks after it's been freshly mowed. It always looks so nice. Had the oldest working on finishing the garden. It's almost completely done. Last year a friend had given us some black slate flat stones. We moved them into the yard when the delivery came, but they never really got much farther than that. I decided I wanted a patio made out of them. The boys were loading the wheel barrow up and hauling them to the back of the yard, until they got a flat tire, lol. So, as a temporary measure they were loading a laundry basket and taking them to the back yard. Hubby and I went and priced tires for the wheel barrow. Let's just say it might be cheaper to buy a new wheel barrow! I told hubby to get a tire that doesn't go flat. Of course that's the most expensive, but worth it for us since we don't put light things in the wheel barrow. So far it's made it to the to do list.

Hubby's decided he wants to fill in the small holes in the yard and make it totally flat. Fine with me, except I think we have more pressing things to do than that. Since I've gotten my new glasses I'm still adjusting to walking outside on an uneven surface with them. He says sometimes I look like I'm drunk, lol. Just still figuring out where to look through them when I look down.

We spent the whole day outside. I got most of the bulbs planted, all but the worst of the flower beds weeded, some large planters moved around, the deck furniture out, and the flower boxes and hanging planters, some, dug out of the shed. We also worked some more of the patio. I'm not sure what's more tender, my hands from the stones or my knees from kneeling on them most of the day.

Unfortunately, we stayed outside way to long. I didn't realize how late it was until I went inside to make dinner. Boys are doing the dishes and I need to get us all organized for church tomorrow. They are going to iron their church clothes for tomorrow themselves. I have to dig out shoes and then I think that's going to be it for me. Crawling in bed with a book is sounding really good to me right now.

Few hours to myself!!

It's been such a long time since I've been home alone for more than a few minutes, I can hardly believe I have a few hours ahead of me. Alone!

Today was the day for the car to go to the shop, again, so I dropped it after work. His cousin picked my up from the mechanics and told me to keep the truck and have hubby bring the truck when he came to work. Ok. Only problem is his cousin wanted the truck back in about an hour, which meant hubby had to leave for work early. Like 2 hours early. And all because his cousin didn't want to make 2 trips to our house. I sure hope he didn't see the expression on my face because it wasn't a good one. I've run numerous time back and forth for him and hubby. He can't do it once?? Anyway, it's just me and the cat home now.

The plan for today was to play outside. Wednesday was a super nice day, mild enough to wear a t-shirt. Wanted to spend some time outside, but with working in the afternoon, it kind of messes everything up, so by the time I had my housework done, it was time for work anyway. Thursday was another really nice day. I had thought there was a chance of showers that day, but it was beautiful, so I did a load of laundry when I got home. Then, after the stuff I wanted to do in the house was done, I was going to go outside and read on the swing. Shortly after I hung my wash out, it got cloudy and drizzled off and on most of the afternoon. There went my plans.

So, today I thought I could get outside. It sunny and windy, and really cool. To cool to sit outside without a sweatshirt on. So, I'm staying in. Have no real plans though. There's lots of stuff I could do, but the question is, what do I really want to do? Not in the mood for housework. Really not in the mood to knit either since I've been working really hard on getting baby stuff done for the neighbor, I'm kind of ready for a break. Think I'll do some organizing, this room could really use it, lol.

This, that, and something else

Such a nice day out today. These are the kinds of days where I'm glad I work for a few hours early in the morning and that's it. I get the rest of the day to enjoy outside. Hung my wash out that I had thrown in the washer before work, and started doing some more weeding. Seems like I'm never going to get that all taken care of. Asking the boys to weed is useless because they only pull the tops of the weeds, they don't dig down for the roots. Now my arms and shoulders are tired so no more for today. Got nothing planted like I wanted to either.

My favorite flowers are gladiolas though, I have to replant them every year so I usually have them in different places. This year I bought a huge bag of bulbs to plant. Now, I don't know where I want to plant them, there's so many of them!

This is the first year I bought plants from a nursery supply catalog. Most of them are planted, but the 2 I haven't gotten to yet are in a plastic bag stored in the fridge. That's what the directions said to do until time to plant them. I do have to get them planted though. This weekend's supposed to be really nice so the plan is to have everything planted by Sunday afternoon.

It's been over a week that we have been dealing with trying to get everything fixed on the car. Monday we finally got the exhaust fixed so no more attracting unwanted attention when I'm driving. I couldn't believe how small a piece of pipe they replaced. Only a few inches.

Went for an eye exam a few weeks ago and got new glasses. I had been noticing things were blurry sometimes and I just thought maybe my eyes were tired. Wrong. I also had been noticing that it was getting hard to drive at night because the headlights from oncoming traffic just seemed to blind me. I was wondering if the headlights on the newer cars were brighter. Wrong again. It's me. I haven't driven at night since I got my glasses because I really don't drive at night all that much. I have been back to the place twice to have these frames fixed though. The first time they were making me sore above my ear. I laid them down on the table and the one ear piece was up off the table. Ok, that would certainly cause pressure and make me sore. After she fixed that I noticed later that day that the frames just seemed really tight on the sides of my face. Back again to have that fixed. I've needed so many adjustments already that I've decided I don't like the frames anymore. I never had any of these problems with the other frames I had, but they were wire frames. These new ones aren't. The new ones are for distance and reading. Yes, bifocals. Talk about fun with them!! I did it that way because my insurance only pays for one pair of frames every 2 years. Had I gotten new ones for distance I still would have to carry around my glasses for reading and keep switching back and forth. All in one sounded good at the time. Except, they are not good for working on the computer. I have to wear my readers for the computer. I have to lift my head way to high to see the computer with the others. I still find myself fighting with trying to find the "right" spot to look through for certain things. Sometimes I feel like I can't see at all with them on, lol. But, it is what it is. I have decided next time I go for glasses, I'm getting wire frames for sure.

I had mentioned something to hubby about maybe returning these frames and getting different ones. Told him I probably had to pay if I wanted to do that and he told me to make do with what I have. Needless to say, he's been miserable the past few days and it's his issue and I'm not going to let myself be bothered by his miserableness. He did it to himself.

So, the car goes back to the shop on Friday, maybe if the part is in and as for my glasses, I'm just going to be saving my money slowly for a new pair and get them myself. I know myself, I won't be wearing something that's not comfortable for the next two years. Expensive lesson learned.

Sunny day

Lots of sunshine today and I made sure I got myself out in it. Went to church this morning as an after thought. Normally, I plan to go, I always plan to go, but this morning the alarm went off just as I was relaxing enough to go back to sleep, that I almost didn't go. Then the thought went through my mind about what the service was about and I decided to get up and go. Only had an hour to get myself and the boys ready, but we went. Guess that was God telling me I needed to go this morning.

This weekend I've been so angry most of the time and even I don't' know why I'm feeling that way. Just am. Figured church would make me feel better. Now I'm kind of in the mood where I just want to be left alone to do my own thing. Guess my mood will get better in the days to come. Came home and went outside and worked on planting some of the flower bulbs I have to get in the ground. It's a nice day except at my house it's sssooooo windy. Got quite a bit planted though. Had to stop because my friend came over and then it was time to come inside and get cleaned up so I could get dinner started. We were out in my herb garden and she discovered I have mint coming back. Told her I was glad she saw that because I would have never noticed it and dug it all up. Had the oldest outside working on the garden. My chives are coming back up so I shoveled a spot around them so he wouldn't dig them all up. They belong in the herb garden, but hubby didn't understand, I guess, and planted them in the veggie garden instead.

Tomorrow I have off again because my lady forgot about me and scheduled a doc apt during my time there and I have an eye apt tomorrow afternoon. Usually when she forgets me I reschedule myself for the next day, which I did, but I forgot that I have an apt at the mechanics for the car. I got pulled over the beginning of the week for my muffler being "a little loud." He takes my info and questions me about my address on the info. Still the same. He asks me like 3 times. Then he asks me if my horn works. Huh?? Told him yes and he wanted to hear it. Ok. Then he hands me my info back and tells me to get it fixed and leaves. No ticket, which is great, but why stop me if you aren't' going to check my info? My friend told me she thinks he was harassing me and really didn't have a reason to pull me over because my exhaust probably isn't all that loud. When I went to the mechanics shop and told them, they looked at me like I had ten heads. Said it's rare for that to happen. Well, not this time. The thing that really irritated me was the cop just hung back behind me and the all the other cars for a few miles before he decided to pull me over. So, after telling hubby 2 days later he takes the car to "his" shop and the guy says part of the muffler needs to be replaced and to bring it back the next day after they order the part. We go back the next day and he says it's something different and he didn't order the part because it was to expensive and gave him a number to call for a used one. I call the number for a used one and they guy tells me it's illegal to sell this particular part used. Told him I was sitting in the mechanics parking lot calling him after being told, by the mechanic, to do this. So, down the road to a different mechanic. We'll see what he comes up with.

Finally got our taxes done and filed. There's been a change and hubby was so angry when he saw what we're getting back. Me, I'm just glad we don't' have to pay. He's angry because he told his family he would send them part of the tax money after we file. He can't do that now. He better not do that now. They are already calling and wanting to know when the money's coming. It's not.

Took hubby's cousins wife shopping for curtains yesterday. I couldn't seem to get hubby to understand that the curtains where we went didn't come in the exact size she needed and she had to cut and re hem them. Well, I have to cut and re hem them. She won't hang them, she won't cut them and she won't hem them. My thought was then why do you even want them?? We were out all afternoon and I was exhausted. It was one of those marathon shopping days again. I bought a little bit of food but didn't do my regular food shopping. I'll go maybe tomorrow after my eye doc apt since I'll be in the area and I have to stop in the office and do some paperwork.

Dinners done. I' m so hungry I didn't eat lunch because I was still full from breakfast when I got home. But, when I skip lunch I get so hungry early so early dinner and early night. Maybe even early to bed, since sleep wasn't good last night. Such weird dreams and then to make matters worse I woke up around 2 am and couldn't get back to sleep until 6 am when the alarm went off. Need to catch up on my lost sleep from last night. Maybe that's why I'm in such a "mood."

Getting back to normal

At least I think I am. Today is the first day since hubby's been back that I feel like myself and have actually gotten something accomplished. This past week though, boy, has that been something else!

After I got hubby last week, we weren't even home 4 hours and his cousin had to come over. I was tired and irritated and glad he didn't stay very long. Came long enough to see everything hubby brought back, get his stuff, tell hubby he had to be at work at noon the next day, and leave. Hubby told him he wsn't working that day. That Monday was hubby's only day off, we went to visit the rest of the relatives and deliver their stuff.

Tuesday was a miserable day. It was pouring, damp, and cold. We have a throw rug in the doorway to our bedroom. The throw rug was wet. I thought maybe the cat threw up on it and the youngest cleaned it up before he went to school. Never gave it a second thought. Later hubby picks the rug up and realized it's wet under the rug to. A lot. He thought maybe someone spilled water there. I look up at the ceiling thinking maybe we have a leak in the roof. Nothing. So hubby gets down on the floor and starts feeling around and discovers that it's wet on the carpeting by the closet to. Oh, please no. We don't have a basement and the hot water heater is in the closet. So we take everything out and remove the piece of drywall that sits up against it and what a mess. The bottom half of the drywall is wet and there's mold on the inside of it. There's mold all over the floor behind the hot water heater to. Everything had to come out including the floor since it was leaking for a while the floor had to be replaced. I ripped the carpet up out of the closet because I'm so allergic to mold, I couldn't take that chance. No mold under the closet carpet though. The plumber dried everything as best he could and washed everything down to kill the mold. The floor is still drying so my shoes are still piled up in the bedroom. The closet floor is almost dry but not bone dry yet. Maybe another day or so and then we can put the insulation around the hot water heater and put the removable wall back up. And then my shoes can go back to their home where they belong. The only good thing that has come out if this is I've found shoes I forgot I had, lol! The weather has been much milder since that day to.

I realized on Thursday that Easter was on Sunday and didn't have anything planned or ready. Friday was spent shopping after work. My plans for Saturday were to do yard work, hubby's plans were to visit the last relative. We went visiting. At least that's done for now though. Had Monday off. Why does a day off during the week go so fast?? The youngest had a friend over and it was after 6 before I realized it. Hubby and I did a little yard work. He cut back the thorny bush that just grows wild and I got my hibiscus plants in containers and the purple tulips and pink daffodils planted outside. We both quit at the same time because he had to go to work and I had to work today, both cases, and I didn't want to be stiff and sore.

When I woke up this morning it was raining. Rained most of the morning. By noon it was starting to clear some and the sun was actually out for a few hours. This morning was cool and damp. This afternoon was warmer and quite humid. Tomorrow's supposed to be close to 80 and I think it just might be, it's very mild now and only supposed to go into the 60's overnight. Normal for us is in the mid to upper 50's. We are having June weather.

Work tomorrow is late so maybe I'll get outside and work in the vegetable garden some. I saw my chives are starting to come back, but they need to be weeded and cleaned out something awful. They were supposed to be in the herb garden but hubby put them in the veggie garden. I want to make the garden bigger this year, hubby says no. We'll see.