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Not a whole lot going on except I'm melting in the heat, mid to upper 90's for the rest of the week, whew!!

This was supposed to have garden pics but they are floating out in cyber space somewhere, so I'll try another time. Just don't have the patience to go through all that again.

It looks like we might actually get to visit my parents in the next few weeks. There is finally a third person working at hubbys station, after a month with only two! Hubby doesn't want to stay a full week though, he wants to stay only two days. It's a seven hour drive each way, we would spend one night and have to leave the next day. I told him the next time he goes to India he can only stay three days. I think he started to understand after I said that.

Little does he know we are taking the cat with us because she just doesn't eat if we go away. I'm not sure who's going to be the worst in the car, hubby or the cat, lol!!

Last day of freedom

School starts back for me tomorrow. In a way I'm excited, but also not. Lots of time hitting the books and researching for papers. The boys don't start for another two weeks yet. They will go for one day and then we are away to see my parents. School starting is a sure sign of cooler weather and I'm all for that! It's so stinkin hot here today. The weatherman is talking a 5 day heat wave, sure hope he's wrong on that one, I was getting used to the comfortable temps and no ac. It was nice outside most of the day because there was a decent breeze blowing, but the house was so hot I caved and put the air on. Supposed to go into the 60's I think tonight so sleeping will be good.

Saturday morning I got on the scale like I always do and the number came up the exact same as last week. Ok, so I moved the scale to a different spot and still the same number. Put the scale back into time out and went and had breakfast. Just because the scale is going down for me doesn't mean we've become friends, lol. I was thinking during breakfast that maybe the scale wasn't working properly or maybe it needs a new battery so I decided to weigh myself after breakfast. Now, you would think on a full stomach the number would be higher, right? Hopped on the scale and I'm down a pound. After breakfast! Well, at least the scales working, I think. Decided not to use that days weight and use this mornings. This morning I'm down 1.6, my normal loss. One things for sure, I lost at least 1 pound this week.

Hubby and the oldest attacked the garden yesterday. When I saw how much they picked I was sorry I asked them to go in. Tons and tons of green beans, lots of jalapeno peppers, tons of tomatoes, a few cucumbers and few zucchini. And they never made it to the kale and cauliflower. The zucchini and cucumbers I just put in the fridge because we can just eat them. I really want to make zucchini bread with some because I haven't made any zucchini bread this year yet. The tomatoes I'll freeze tomorrow after work as well as the green beans. Hubby told me I could freeze the jalapeno peppers as is to use over the winter so I'll do them to. Easy stuff, maybe the tomatoes I'll freeze on Tuesday after work because they will take some time to do. The cherry tomatoes I'll make a little salsa out of. It's almost impossible to take the skin off cherry tomatoes.

Have pics of the garden in its overgrown state, but just haven't uploaded them yet.

Unmotivated day

The weather here lately has been quite cool, but rainy for the past 3 days. I'm not minding the cooler temps, makes me feel like Fall is coming, but I know its just a tease. The weatherman is predicting temps in the upper 80's for the weekend and 90 on Monday. UGH!! Back to the stinkin heat and humidity. And reality I guess, but the break was nice.

Yesterday was the oldest birthday. He's now 20! I can't believe it. Boy do I feel old :( Decided to make him a birthday cake. Had the youngest bake the cake while I was at work and when I got home I decided to put icing on it. Well, for some reason, the cake refused to cooperate, lol. I had the cake all together, since we made a layer cake, but when I got to this one side, the whole side just fell off when I put icing on it. I don't understand why either. The cake was cooled and the icing was room temperature. The cake came out of the pans with no chunks missing. I don't know what went wrong. Maybe it was me, I don't know. Anyway, the boys liked it. I had just the frozen yogurt I had bought, no cake, not one crumb! I'm so proud of myself, because before I would have had at least a small taste.

I really think now my mindset is totally different. And I do think at this point if I did eat to much of it I would probably get nauseous from it. A while ago I was having a serious chocolate craving and I had 2 small peppermint patties. I had such an upset stomach from it, I couldn't believe it. That was the very last time, it's been over a month since.

For the most part the cravings are gone. Just occasionally, but I do eat frozen yogurt and have ice cream in the house since this med interferes with my calcium, I'm hoping if the up the calcium intake it won't be to bad. Broccoli and yogurt are becoming a daily thing in my diet since I'm not a big milk drinker, that's the reason for ice cream instead. As long as I keep losing a pound or two a week it's all good.

Since today was the first day we haven't been drenched in rain I took a walk outside. The garden has become a jungle, so have the weeds in the flower beds, lol. But I have 2 roses blooming. I'll have to take new pics later of the garden. I think the zucchini is just about done, but the cauliflower is finally starting to get ready. The kale has gone crazy I have to pick that and freeze it. The green beans are ready. Hubby and I picked a whole bunch of beans before all the rain and I froze them. Hubby's only getting a handful at a time of the okra, but the hot peppers are hanging full, as well as the tomatoes. Hubby pulled up two onions but they really aren't ready yet. I knew we planted two cantaloupe plants, one has a small green cantaloupe on it. Haven't found the other plant yet. Hubby planted something, don't remember what he calls it, in the squash family and it's a climber. Hubby didn't' set up anything for the plant to climb on so it's taken over half the garden. It does have small green things starting on it. From the looks of it we are going to have an awful lot of that vegetable once it really gets going. Told hubby next year he has to place it at the end of the garden and make something for it to climb up on. This thing has spread out of the fence of the garden and is starting to climb up the side of the shed, which is next to the garden, lol.

To much to do

It's been a super busy week. Few hot and humid days which seem to just suck the energy right out of me lately. Hubby has been visiting the garden on a regular basis and every day I come home from work there is some type of produce waiting for me on the kitchen table, lol. At least he's keeping up with the picking in the garden.

I'm glad the summer is coming to an end and yet I can't believe how fast it's gone. Last week of August, wow! I've finally had the time to talk to hubby today and catch him up on everything he should know, like the oldest birthday is Tuesday. That snuck up on me for sure. I'm clueless as to what to get him. I had gotten him a set of books from one of his favorite authors way back in May. I hid them and with a little searching, I found them today.

I mentioned to hubby that Peebles is having a clearance sale and told him I wanted to go and look for clothes for myself. He told me to wait until Christmas. Hah, not happening, lol! There is a pile of clothes started in the corner of my room that is to big. I'll just shove it in the back of the closet one day, maybe when I can put my shorts and tank tops away. I just finished going through my jeans today. What I really need are tops that fit. I've gone down a size in my tops and I don't see myself going any lower. At least I haven't ever worn a smaller size. I finally sat down and calculated just how much I've lost since June. I asked hubby if he noticed, why I asked, who knows, but his response was about 2 or 3 pounds. I told him I lost exactly 20 pounds as of today. That's a little more than the weight of the cat, she's 17 pounds. I told him I lost as much as the cat weighs, he looked shocked, lol. I guess him seeing me everyday he doesn't notice it as much. I don't care, I'm happy.

So hubby decided he was going to Peebles with me tomorrow. Personally I think he doesn't want me spending to much money, lol. I told him I wasn't going to buy anything unless it was marked really low. Peebles can be an expensive store and why spend a lot of money on something I might only wear a few months. His excuse was he wants to get the oldest a pair of sneakers since the shoes are all buy one and get one half.

The paperwork has been piling up on my desk all week now. I'm feeling overwhelmed just looking at it. The plan was to tackle it tomorrow since it's supposed to rain for the next three days, but my plans have changed now. I have to get in the mindset to do this and I'm just not there yet. I'm only working 2 days this week because of my lady's doc appts, so maybe I can get in the mood to deal with it. I have to do it soon.

I've been seeing more trees with leaves changing color. I can't wait for the cooler weather, I'm so done with this heat and humidity! It's been comfortable enough that I turned the air off and just keeping the windows open. It was cool enough last night that I actually grabbed an extra blanket to put on the bed. My kind of weather, lol!

For the most part our Internet connection is up and running. Except for my computer. For some reason, not sure why, my computer can't be hooked into the phone line like it was before. The oldest said something about the way he redid everything with the router and stuff. Whatever! I just know I'm not liking this stick thingie for the router. The boys know my USB ports are not working well, or just not working, so why give me the stick thingie?? Kids!!

I give up!!

I'm having one of those Mondays. Went to work and found my person really sick. She didn't want me to stay because she didn't want to give me whatever she has. Ok, called the office and home I went.

Since I have time on my hands decided to work on the internet issue. Still having internet problems, called the phone company and waiting for them to return my call since nothing worked over the phone. My computer doesn't have Internet, but the boys have it. The youngest is plugged right into the phone jack, which is what I wanted to do when all this started in the first place. I figure the boys can run off the router. Anyway............

The oldest reset the password on the router and now my ipod has no Internet. Won't accept the new password either. Have to wait on him for that.

Tried over the weekend to access my checking account online and I don't know what I did but I messed up the password on the account and can't get online. Called the 1-800 number and they system is down so they couldn't help me until possible tomorrow.

The battery decided to die in the car yesterday. We went and had it tested and bought a new one. Do you know we couldn't find any shop to put in the battery because we didn't buy it from them?? So, everywhere we went we had to leave a kid in the car because I didn't know if the car would start again if I shut it off. Got home and had a neighbor install the battery. When we bought the battery I asked they sales guy if the battery was the problem with the car not wanting to start. If it doesn't start it has to sit about 10 minutes and then it will start. Weird. The guy said it was the battery. Well, after we had the battery changed, and hubby was ready to go to work, wouldn't you know it, the car wouldn't start. Guess it's not the battery.

Hubby sold the iphone because I think it really hurt paying all the money for just one phone. Him and the youngest bought used phones. I didn't care for the iphone because I just never had any service where I was. I was ok with getting rid of it. Hubby set up a new plan with a different carrier, one I have service with, and put the youngests phone on and bought me a new phone. I hope eventually he will upgrade his phone and put it on the plan we have now. We pay less for 2 phones than we were paying for the iphone.

So now I'm calling it a day, crawling back in bed and will try again tomorrow, lol. Way to early for all these problems, lol.

Lazy Saturday afternoon

Comfortably Saturday afternoons are made for doing nothing. At least in my mind anyway, lol. Finally got to make the banana bread I've been saying I was going to make for the past 2 days now. I have so many cucumbers and zucchini I don't know what to do with all of them. So, I've been on the search for recipes. I found a recipe for refrigerator pickles for the cucumbers that I've made. But I really don't need any more than one jar in the fridge since they last for like a year. I've come across a recipe to freeze them so I'll probably only try one or two containers that way. I have been eating a lot of cucumber soup though, lol! I've been eating a lot of zucchini to. I'll make bread out of some of the zucchini maybe tomorrow, if I get home early enough. Either way it's stuffed zucchini for dinner tomorrow night.

Really not much else going on, just working and trying to keep up with the produce from the garden. I have no idea what I'm going to do when the green beans and tomatoes start. We also have some cantaloupes that from the look of the flowers on the plants, we are going to be eating them forever to, lol. Glad my throat is on the mend!

Another busy day

Yesterday was so busy it was dinner time by the time I finally got home to stay. Had my follow up appt with doc. In 12 weeks she's taking me off the antacid and of course wants blood to check my calcium level. I still have a script for blood work from June from my physical that needs to be done. My problem is I work early everyday. Not sure how if she's going to get any blood from me, lol. But, hopefully I can go off and stay off.

Let the youngest go driving on the back roads. Found myself mostly just daydreaming and not really paying much attention to what he was doing. Until I heard the tree branches scraping along the side of the car or we were over in the other lane, lol. But, practice and more practice. Hubby refuses to go with him.

On a whim I put an application in with another agency. The interview was this afternoon. Everything went well at the interview and I passed my tests. Amazed myself at how much I really do remember because I don't use much of it on a regular basis. One of the draw backs is it is a pay decrease, even with shift differences and bonuses and orientation is in their one office that is a hour and a half away for me. I do have time to think on this though, and maybe I won't get the job either, who knows. It started out more as curiosity than anything else and now I'm thinking maybe because they give you no less than a certain amount of hours. But, not sure how many visits I have to make in a day to get that time in for the week either. But they are new to the area, only been around here for 2 years, so there's room for growth to. I'll have to sleep on it and go from there.

When I was driving home today I took a good look at the trees and some had leaves starting to change color. I sure hope the cooler air is on the way soon to!

Kicking myself in the butt

A few months ago when the warmer weather decided it was here to stay I decided to get rid of all the clothes that's been hanging around in my closet that just didn't fit anymore. To small, never fit right, etc. And I kept thinking I would eventually get back into it, yet again. Never happened. So donated it went. Yesterday I had a little extra money and decided to see what I could find that fits me better. Ended up with 2 pairs of jeans and 2 pairs of shorts, in a smaller size. My old size, the one that I donated so much clothes in. The one I could be pulling out and wearing now size. It figures the one time I actually give up hope and get rid of something, that is the time I lose enough to wear it again.

I have decided that anything I buy has to be super cheap because I may not stay this size. Ok, I hope to not stay this size, lol. But I don't want to spend a lot on money on things that this time next year might not fit either. Went out today because I just was so aggravated with all the cave men that I needed to get away. Went looking in another favorite store. Came out very disappointed. Very little that was on sale or clearanced was in my size. What was in my size I didn't like. I don't like the tops with the bands around the bottom, not crazy about tops with narrow or wide elastic in the waist and then ruffles on the bottom, don't wear short shorts. Came home with a tank top that has side panels in a darker color and 2 pairs of earrings, like I need more, lol!

Hubby had to work early because once again it's only the two of them. That whole situation irritates me. The unemployment rate is higher than it's ever been and his so called boss can never find anyone to work. He found someone to work 5 weeks and that's it. Just don't understand how you can run a business like that.

Here come the gray hairs

Took the youngest this morning to take his written drivers test. He passed. When I went to get the oldest from work, I took the youngest along because the oldest works at the local high school and the lot is basically empty, so I let him do some driving around the school grounds. He went out on the road for a short distance in front of the school because there wasn't much traffic. Basically in one entrance and out the other. He ran into a little traffic with the shift change and people coming and going from the fitness center, but basically he did well for his real first try. He's been driving up and down our driveway for a while now.

His problems are stopping, either to far forward or to far back, staying on his side of the road, and his wide, wide turns. But, by the time we were done he was recognizing his mistakes and trying to correct them the next time, so that's a good thing. No way is he ready for the road yet, but once he gets comfortable driving around the school parking lot I'll take him down some back roads with little traffic.

I just need to stock up on the hair dye, lol.

Well maybe

I think my computer issues are resolved. Maybe. It has been acting super weird lately though. The boys have rearranged things so we all can be on at the same time, well, they can, today is my test run.

Today is the last on the nicer weather. Of course, it waits to get super hot and humid once I go back to work. Neither place has ac or a fan so I'll be sweating the weight off to, lol! I've decided that I have to see if I can get a few pairs of shorts for the rest of the summer. The ones I have now are all getting to big. Can't stand pants with a baggy butt! I have taken some shorts that are just way to big and put them away. Now I have to do that with some tops. At the beginning of the warmer weather I took and donated all the stuff that was to tight. Now I'm wishing I had that stuff. What I did save, because I just couldn't part with it, fits comfortably now. But some tops the necks are sliding off to the shoulder. Can't have that, it's annoying.

The new medicine seems to be agreeing with me for the most part, so I'll wait 3 weeks and see how my throat is after that. I have noticed that I can eat or drink really cold things, so that's a step in the right direction. Bought apples when I went food shopping and made myself a baked apple today. Boy, was that good! Put me in the mood for Fall. Hoping September is a nice normal cool September, but hubby was telling me he heard it's still supposed to be warmer than normal. Hope his source is wrong.

Went back to work yesterday and got a totally new schedule. Fine with me, I'm tired of being home and broke. I used to think I didn't want to work, now I'm not so sure. It's nice being home and doing what I want, but there are days being home makes me crazy. Maybe because there's so much to do I don't know where to start.

Been working on the outline for my paper. When I start this I make sure the boys are occupied and hubby is at work. It never fails, just as I get going, a kid has a want. Every time! No wonder this is taking forever. I need a secret room that only I know about and lock myself in there, lol. Our town is building a brand new library. We did need a new library, the current building is super, super small. The problem I have with this new library is they built it right next to a vacant elementary school. The reason the school building wasn't used is because it would cost to much money to fix the heating and ac units for the building. Ok, but the new library is costing over 2 million, yes million, to build. You can't tell me it costs more than that to fix the heating and ac in an existing building. The new library was supposed to be done my mid-summer. Now it supposed to be done mid-September, if they get the funding needed because they are about 500,000 short. All card holders got a itemized list of possible donations along with a map of the new building. The map I kept it's supposed to have a separate area for studying. I was eyeing the location as a possible get away spot to work on my paper.

The tomato plants are full of green tomatoes, very few red ones yet. We aren't getting many even from the mature tomato plant we bought early. Guess there's no rushing it. Lots of cucumbers are coming and only a few zucchini so far. Hubby just picked some okra today, the first ones. We actually have eggplant coming to. That's a first for us. The broccoli and cauliflower seem to be taking their own sweet time. They are one of the first ones we get, even before the zucchini. Guess everything will be late this year since we planted late because the last frost was late. This was the first year we didn't put manure in the soil before we planted and it shows. Hubby has been keeping up with the weeding of the garden though. He's even been weeding the flower beds this year. Fine with me, lol!