I think today is just going to be one of those days. One where you start out behind and just stay that way all day. The oldest got me up to take him to work, and for some reason, I think I slept for at least 30 minutes more. And the oldest will only wake me once and that's it. Roll out of bed and into clothes to take him to work. First thing hubby says is "you're late." The kid says mom wouldn't get up, lol.. That's right, blame it all on me, lol. Since I was up and sort of awake, I decided to take a ride down the road since I have an appt tomorrow. I haven't been out of my own town since Friday. I figure the weathers bad and the roads are bad, may as well stay home and get some things done that need to be done. But, I'm getting a little stir crazy and need to get out for a while now.
Took a drive down the road just to see how bad the damage from the storm was. As I'm driving I'm looking at the mountains and I notice they look snow covered. The view in my area is just bare trees and brown ground. Well, as I'm getting closer to the school, I noticed the view was changing drastically. The ground actually looked like it was snow covered, but it's not, it's all ice. The trees are all ice covered. With the blue sky and the sun shining, the view was absolutely breath taking. Parts of this road are tree lined on both sides, so it was like driving through a icy wonderland. Then I thought of all the people who lost power, some still, from all this. There are huge trees, that have been around for years, uprooted from the ground, huge branches just bent and looking like a wet noodle, hanging over power lines, covered in ice. The road is lined with debris from where the trees and branches have been cut to be removed to clear the road. There are still some branches laying on power lines that cross the roads. It was actually a little scary driving through there and under some of those lines. But, I have to get out tomorrow and I needed to know if I had to make a detour anywhere. I asked hubby to leave about 30 minutes early today so I can take him and the boys through there to see this. There is just such a drastic difference from where we are and where all this is, it's hard to comprehend, since we are only 5 minutes, if that, away from all this.
The whole day is mine today. I have a list and I'm going to work very hard on getting most of it done today.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Saturday
Woke up super early this morning and got so much accomplished. All the laundry is caught up, some light cleaning, and even almost finished the pj's for the oldest. Got all the gifts for my parents wrapped and in the box ready to be sent on Monday. All the other gifts for us, except for the youngest, are all wrapped and piled in a corner of the kitchen. When hubby got done work, we went and got a real tree. I think the last time I had a real tree was before we moved up here and the boys were little. Actually, we were still with their father. We've been divorced for 12 years, so it's been at least that long. It's nice to have a real tree. I wanted a really fat one and that's what hubby picked out. The cat has been looking at it and sniffing it, but other than that she seems uninterested. That's good, hopefully she won't decide to get really friendly with it and we have to tie it up. She has always hid or slept under the artifical one we have. I'll give her a few days to see what she does.
Church has been cancelled for tomorrow because of the power outage. There are still some people in my county who haven't had power since early Friday morning. Yesterday all day long the news was doing updates and posting emergency shelters in the different counties. Some friends of ours were here today to take showers, refill their water containers, and do dishes. I'm so glad she called. I had thought of her earlier when this happened, but I knew there was a wood burning stove in their kitchen so I thought they at least had heat. The wood burning stove really doesn't work that well, it needs a new chimney. They can use it, but not for long. She ended up coming over here to do what had to be done. She said she was cooking outside on the grill, because they own a motel and one of their customers was refusing to leave. I did give her a list of emergency shelters to give to the woman, thinking maybe she would want to go. She was still refusing. I just can't imagine not wanting to do that. No heat for almost 2 full days. By that time I would be desperate for heat. The house I work in the daughter uses an electric heater and fireplace to heat the house. That's fine, except when the fireplace goes out. The furnace is set around 55 or so. I never hear the furnace go on when I'm there. It's just to cold in there I think. It seems after a while like the cold just soaks into my bones and makes me ache. I have another 3 months of this. And I wonder why I feel crappy all the time.
Our friends from church, who live down the road from us, were telling me that the part of the road that they live on is only open on one lane because of so many tree branches still laying on the road. A lot of people we know have lots of trees that have split as well as huge branches that have broken from the heavy icing. I'm just so glad we were not part of all that. The worst we got was lots and lots of flooding. I much prefer to have my yard covered in water than to have no power. Some people have just gotten power back late today and others still have none. There talking about the school not having any power until possibly Tuesday or Wednesday. I'm hoping for sooner rather than later.
Since we got the tree today and there's no church tomorrow, we are going to decorate it tomorrow. That way we can take our time with it and not have to rush. Getting the tree and decorating all in the same day makes for a very long day. I want my Monday to do whatever I want. I've spent the past 2 days doing what needs to be done, so hopefully I can have just one day for my stuff.
The oldest pj's are almost done. Just need the elastic in the waistband and they are finished. Then 2 more pairs and a set of pajamas. I don't see the pajamas getting made for him. If the kids have no school on Monday I don't know when the youngest flannel bottoms are going to get made either. This Monday and the next Monday are the only 2 days I have left to work on his stuff. I don't even have his stuff wrapped yet. I was so hoping he was going to go with the neighbor today, but he chose to stay home and irritate me. I'm beginning to think he senses I need him out of the house, that's why he's not leaving, lol. If worse comes to worse, I'll have to ship him off to the station on Saturday for the day so I can get his stuff done. I have a big plastic tote that has all the wrapping paper and stuff in it. I can't put that back in the shed until all his gifts are boxed and wrapped. I'm getting tired of looking at that tote, lol.
Church has been cancelled for tomorrow because of the power outage. There are still some people in my county who haven't had power since early Friday morning. Yesterday all day long the news was doing updates and posting emergency shelters in the different counties. Some friends of ours were here today to take showers, refill their water containers, and do dishes. I'm so glad she called. I had thought of her earlier when this happened, but I knew there was a wood burning stove in their kitchen so I thought they at least had heat. The wood burning stove really doesn't work that well, it needs a new chimney. They can use it, but not for long. She ended up coming over here to do what had to be done. She said she was cooking outside on the grill, because they own a motel and one of their customers was refusing to leave. I did give her a list of emergency shelters to give to the woman, thinking maybe she would want to go. She was still refusing. I just can't imagine not wanting to do that. No heat for almost 2 full days. By that time I would be desperate for heat. The house I work in the daughter uses an electric heater and fireplace to heat the house. That's fine, except when the fireplace goes out. The furnace is set around 55 or so. I never hear the furnace go on when I'm there. It's just to cold in there I think. It seems after a while like the cold just soaks into my bones and makes me ache. I have another 3 months of this. And I wonder why I feel crappy all the time.
Our friends from church, who live down the road from us, were telling me that the part of the road that they live on is only open on one lane because of so many tree branches still laying on the road. A lot of people we know have lots of trees that have split as well as huge branches that have broken from the heavy icing. I'm just so glad we were not part of all that. The worst we got was lots and lots of flooding. I much prefer to have my yard covered in water than to have no power. Some people have just gotten power back late today and others still have none. There talking about the school not having any power until possibly Tuesday or Wednesday. I'm hoping for sooner rather than later.
Since we got the tree today and there's no church tomorrow, we are going to decorate it tomorrow. That way we can take our time with it and not have to rush. Getting the tree and decorating all in the same day makes for a very long day. I want my Monday to do whatever I want. I've spent the past 2 days doing what needs to be done, so hopefully I can have just one day for my stuff.
The oldest pj's are almost done. Just need the elastic in the waistband and they are finished. Then 2 more pairs and a set of pajamas. I don't see the pajamas getting made for him. If the kids have no school on Monday I don't know when the youngest flannel bottoms are going to get made either. This Monday and the next Monday are the only 2 days I have left to work on his stuff. I don't even have his stuff wrapped yet. I was so hoping he was going to go with the neighbor today, but he chose to stay home and irritate me. I'm beginning to think he senses I need him out of the house, that's why he's not leaving, lol. If worse comes to worse, I'll have to ship him off to the station on Saturday for the day so I can get his stuff done. I have a big plastic tote that has all the wrapping paper and stuff in it. I can't put that back in the shed until all his gifts are boxed and wrapped. I'm getting tired of looking at that tote, lol.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Unexpected day off
What a crazy week weather wise it's been here lately. Monday no power all morning, Thursday an ice storm moved through and today, no power in lots of places because of the heavy icing before it all turned to rain, and now it's snowing! Fortunately, this time we are not in the power outage, yet. A huge portion of the county is, so much so we're under a state of emergency due to the tree branches down from the icing and the flooding from all the rain. It's not looking like it's going to be a very good winter this year. Personally, I would rather have feet of snow, than icing. Ice storms seem to do way to much damage. I've been talking to hubby about a generator, maybe. I've also been talking to hubby about hooking up the propane fireplace we have. It was unhooked when we bought the house. Originally the house was all propane, but the last owners converted everything to electric, except the heat, but you still have to have electric to run the heater. I would like to put in a wood burning or pellet burning stove and get the fireplace in working order again. Hubby agreed to the fireplace, but to have it hooked up in the Spring. It could be a very long cold winter until then.
We are one of the few areas that do have power. What I've been told is that from the school on the power is out. We are 5 minutes from the school, on the opposite side. But, there is so much flooding on the roads, traveling is still difficult. I took hubby to work this morning, at 4am and we hit 3 flooded spots. One really huge. At that time in the morning it's hard to see and I'm not really awake anyway. Hubby was awake, he starts yelling and holding on to the door when I hit the first flooded area, lol. Slow down, slow down he goes, lol. I was only doing 45 because it was raining so hard anyway. I did slow way down after that though. When I took the oldest to work this morning, the road was still flooded, just didn't seem as bad. At that time I thought I had to work, so I dropped him just in case. After that I called my patient and was going to tell her to call me when she got power because I won't know when it goes back on, unless mine goes out, and she said not to bother because there's still tree branches on the road and 2 of her trees are down, one is blocking the driveway, so she has to get that cleared first anyway. Ok, unplanned day off. Now, what to do?? Going to play catch up is what. Finish wrapping some more gifts, work on sewing the pjs for the oldest. That should keep me quite busy all day. I didn't plan on going anywhere over the weekend, except to church, so hopefully, if I stay focused, I should have all the pjs made by the time I go back to work on Tuesday. I have to work on the youngest pjs on Monday since he's still here and not planning on going anywhere. I'll have to wrap and hide his gifts to that day. I don't' like to wrap gifts on Christmas eve. It's a chore just to put out gifts, let alone wrap them. I remember some years my parents wouldn't put up the tree until Christmas eve. I can't imagine just how tired they probably were the next day. To put that whole thing up, put the gifts out, then get up around 6 am with us kids, then mom had all the cooking to do. Geez, I feel tired just thinking about that! I never did that. We don't even have our tree up yet. I want to go get one Sunday, after church. The plan is to put it up and decorate it then. Will make for a rather long evening unless everyone pitches in and helps. I don't want to find myself decorating it alone on Monday.
Well, as usual, the laundry is calling my name, time to get my day started.
We are one of the few areas that do have power. What I've been told is that from the school on the power is out. We are 5 minutes from the school, on the opposite side. But, there is so much flooding on the roads, traveling is still difficult. I took hubby to work this morning, at 4am and we hit 3 flooded spots. One really huge. At that time in the morning it's hard to see and I'm not really awake anyway. Hubby was awake, he starts yelling and holding on to the door when I hit the first flooded area, lol. Slow down, slow down he goes, lol. I was only doing 45 because it was raining so hard anyway. I did slow way down after that though. When I took the oldest to work this morning, the road was still flooded, just didn't seem as bad. At that time I thought I had to work, so I dropped him just in case. After that I called my patient and was going to tell her to call me when she got power because I won't know when it goes back on, unless mine goes out, and she said not to bother because there's still tree branches on the road and 2 of her trees are down, one is blocking the driveway, so she has to get that cleared first anyway. Ok, unplanned day off. Now, what to do?? Going to play catch up is what. Finish wrapping some more gifts, work on sewing the pjs for the oldest. That should keep me quite busy all day. I didn't plan on going anywhere over the weekend, except to church, so hopefully, if I stay focused, I should have all the pjs made by the time I go back to work on Tuesday. I have to work on the youngest pjs on Monday since he's still here and not planning on going anywhere. I'll have to wrap and hide his gifts to that day. I don't' like to wrap gifts on Christmas eve. It's a chore just to put out gifts, let alone wrap them. I remember some years my parents wouldn't put up the tree until Christmas eve. I can't imagine just how tired they probably were the next day. To put that whole thing up, put the gifts out, then get up around 6 am with us kids, then mom had all the cooking to do. Geez, I feel tired just thinking about that! I never did that. We don't even have our tree up yet. I want to go get one Sunday, after church. The plan is to put it up and decorate it then. Will make for a rather long evening unless everyone pitches in and helps. I don't want to find myself decorating it alone on Monday.
Well, as usual, the laundry is calling my name, time to get my day started.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Just one of those days
Left work early yesterday. Actually it was a scheduling mix up on my part. I thought I put in for the whole day off, but just half. Dentist appt was in am, so had to cancel because I had to work. So, I decide to get the last few things I need for the youngest. I run into town after work and hit Big Lots for the Ihome he wants for christmas. I'm walking in the door and there is the youngest! Then it hits me, it's Tuesday and on Tuesdays and Thursdays he works at Big Lots through the school program. Crap! I decide to get a cart, trying to avoid my kid, and the next thing I hear is "MOM". Oh, man, I've been seen. He comes running over like he hasn't seen me in years and gives me a huge hug. Wants to know why I'm not working and what I'm doing there. Thinking to myself, I'm there to get a christmas present for him and he needs to go away so I can get it. I told him I was done working for the day and wanted to get mom-mom and pop-pop a gift set. Which was true, I did. Then I'm walking through the store, being followed every few seconds, and I'm thinking I need some type of clothing or something to cover the box for the Ihome, because otherwise he'll see it for sure. I saw sweatpants and decided I would check them out because I want to get him some for this birthday and right now if I can find them, great. Of course he does a walk by and tells me which ones he likes. Grab a few and wait for the kid to disappear and then go looking for this Ihome. After a long search, kid didn't find me I don't think, I finally found one on the bottom of the shelf, way in the back. Last one I think. Throw the sweatpants over top of it and run to the register. While I'm in line, I'm spotted again. Asked him how many times he's going to visit me and didn't he have work to do?? Put the Ihome on the belt and told the cashier to ring that up first and put it in a bag because it's a gift for my son who was just there. So, since the box is quite beat up, she tells me if I looked to make sure if everything was there. I told her no because he's been hanging around me like a shark circling it's lunch, lol. She just laughed and told me how long I have until I can bring it back if every things not in there. She even wrote the date on the receipt and signed her name! Wow, thanks. She must have known what I was going through. So, I go out the doors to leave and wouldn't you know it, I set the alarm off going out! So much for sneaking in and out of the store, lol. When the youngest gets home he asked me what I bought at the store that made the alarm go off. He didn't think sweatpants and the mug set had alarms on them! I tried.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Brrrrrr
Yesterday we got our very first snow fall of the season. It's so pretty. We got about 1 1/2", not much, but I'll take it, lol. We didn't go to church since we weren't sure if it was going to be cancelled or not. About 7 or 8 years ago, there was an accident with a couple from the congregation during the snow, so ever since, if the weathers to unsafe, church is cancelled. So, the youngest and I got every ones Christmas presents out and wrapped until we were exhausted. Notice I didn't say until we were done, lol? We didn't finish, but got a good start. Then, I had to run into Htown because we didn't have enough clothing boxes for hubby's and the oldest clothes. And the youngest, but he didn't know that. The closer I got to Htown, the less snow there was. While I was there I finished the Christmas shopping for the youngest. As I'm digging out all this stuff, I'm not finding anything for him. I found one small bag with a pair of jeans and 2 shirts. Crap!! So, I did some fast shopping for him to. Now he's done. I had bought him a coat for Christmas that I was going to save for this birthday, which is 2 weeks after Christmas, but I'm going to give it to him. I am going to buy him hoodies and sweatpants for his birthday. He has 2 hoodies and he wears the same one for a week. Eeewwww. So, this way, if I get him a few more, he can change the hoodie daily.
There was a book sale at the fire house in town so when I got back from town we went to that. All the books were half price. Cool! We all got a bunch of books and some home made treats. The local library also has paperbacks 5 for $1.00 all this week. They weren't at the sale because there just wasn't enough room. I'm a total sucker for historical romances. I'll be visiting the library this week, lol.
This whole week is supposed to be bitterly cold. Last night, the wind picked up, enough that I was turning the heat up higher than normal. The low last night was 8. The high today is 24. Winter is setting in, lol.
No sleep for me last night. Hubby was snoring all night. I tried the pillow over the face, thinking it would muffle the sound. Didn't last to long. Then pulled the covers over his face. Finally, I crawled out of bed and put one of those no snore thingies on his nose. It worked for a short while, then he was back at it again. I got up and checked and the thing was gone. I must have fell asleep at some point because the next thing I know, I'm being rudely shoved in the back to turn the alarm off. I got some sleep after that. Until 6:30 am. The youngest is in my room holding the alarm clock telling me we have no electric. Ok. So, he starts calling to see if it's just us or everyone. It's everyone. This results in the next 3 hours of non stop phone calls. Bye, bye sleep. Hubby had called twice during that time wanting the oldest to come to the station when I got up. I've been up most of the night. So, finally crawl out of my nice warm, comfy bed and give up on sleep. Got ready to leave and the temp in the house was 46. Yup, time to go. We went to the station, which was warmer. I figured it would be. Customers were saying a whole grid was out and there was 2,000 people without electric. Hubby had told me that as far as Albany there was no power. Albany is 2 hours away from us. Yet, we are 10 minutes from the state line, and 30 minutes down the road, in our state, there was power. That town was under a different power company though. So, we waited it out at the station. Power finally came back on around 11:30. So, the youngest and I took the long way home. When we got home the temp in the house was 58. Ok, not to bad, getting there. I'm going to try to talk hubby into getting a generator for the house. Over the summer we had the same problem. No electric for hours and it was in the upper 80's. It gets hot without so much as a fan. This way, we can at least have heat or air and running water. I'll start pricing them after the new year and see if I can talk him into it. There have been times up here in the winter the snow storms have knocked the power out. The cold is brutal and if it's widespread, there's no where to go. You can't even go into a store because they are affected to.
So, the kids were off from school today. Not good. Destroyed my plans for today and they are just making me crazy lately. They had like a week off for Thanksgiving and the Christmas break this year is 2 weeks! That's to much time off, lol! I was thinking about taking the day after Christmas off, but they will be home. Don't want to do that. Don't want to work either because the brat is home also. At least I don't have to listen to my own kids crap, but my lady's granddaughter I can't get away from. Next place I go I won't take it if there's kids there. Just can't handle it anymore. Must be getting old or something, lol.
The oldest is at the station with hubby. The youngest just got a call from a neighbor wanting him to go shopping with her. Great, go, get out, lol. Finally, finally some time to myself. It's 4:00, but I'll take what I can get. Hopefully, today will be a late day for hubby.
As I was getting the Christmas gifts out yesterday I realized that I still have sewing to do to. The pj bottoms. I had planned on working on the youngest pants since he's always around. Hubby's and the oldest I can do throughout the week, because they are at the station. but, no such luck. I only have 2 more Mondays to get the youngest pants done and I have 2 pairs for him. I have to get this done. What I really have to do is kick the kids out for the day, lol.
There has been this black cat hanging around the neighborhood. I've asked the 2 women in the neighborhood, who seem to know everything, who's cat it is. No one seems to know. It's a beautiful, black long haired cat. I haven't been able to get to close to it, but it's always hanging around my house. I took pity on it and put food and water out for it. Got pretty close to it while it was eating, but not close enough to touch. We'll see over time. I'll bring the food and water in over night, but for now, I'll feed it and see what happens. Maybe I'll be able to get close to it. I've been seeing it for a few weeks now, but since it's a black cat and I know of 2 neighbors who have black cats, I just thought it was theres. I just got close to it today, during the day, to notice it's a long hair cat. Obviously not the neighbors.
Since it's snowed and gotten colder, the Christmas spirit has set in, a little. Enough that I bought some stuff to decorate the outside of the house. I'm not doing anymore inside than I already have. It's not overly cluttered and that's fine with me. By the time we get a tree in here, it will be more than enough. I've been thinking about getting a real tree this year. We've had a fake one since we've been up here and I thought a real one might be a nice change. I'll have to tell myself that when I'm still vacuuming pine needles in August, lol. I was telling hubby about it. He said he would check into the prices. I've seen prices in Htown for trees between $20 and $25. I don't know how big they are, but I don't want a huge one. I want a 4' or 5' tree, but very fat. Then I was thinking maybe we should get a tree with the root ball so we can plant it in the back of the yard in the spring. That way it's not really a waste of money and if we do that every year, we can have a whole row of pine trees in the back of the yard. Some type of wind breakage back there. Well, maybe not for us, but for whoever lives here after us, lol. I just love pine trees. Coming from Jersey, pine trees aren't something you see a lot of. Not where I grew up at. I love the look of them when the snow stays on the branches.
Well, the dryer's done and I want to make a pot of veggie soup for dinner. I've been wanting home made veggie soup for days now.
There was a book sale at the fire house in town so when I got back from town we went to that. All the books were half price. Cool! We all got a bunch of books and some home made treats. The local library also has paperbacks 5 for $1.00 all this week. They weren't at the sale because there just wasn't enough room. I'm a total sucker for historical romances. I'll be visiting the library this week, lol.
This whole week is supposed to be bitterly cold. Last night, the wind picked up, enough that I was turning the heat up higher than normal. The low last night was 8. The high today is 24. Winter is setting in, lol.
No sleep for me last night. Hubby was snoring all night. I tried the pillow over the face, thinking it would muffle the sound. Didn't last to long. Then pulled the covers over his face. Finally, I crawled out of bed and put one of those no snore thingies on his nose. It worked for a short while, then he was back at it again. I got up and checked and the thing was gone. I must have fell asleep at some point because the next thing I know, I'm being rudely shoved in the back to turn the alarm off. I got some sleep after that. Until 6:30 am. The youngest is in my room holding the alarm clock telling me we have no electric. Ok. So, he starts calling to see if it's just us or everyone. It's everyone. This results in the next 3 hours of non stop phone calls. Bye, bye sleep. Hubby had called twice during that time wanting the oldest to come to the station when I got up. I've been up most of the night. So, finally crawl out of my nice warm, comfy bed and give up on sleep. Got ready to leave and the temp in the house was 46. Yup, time to go. We went to the station, which was warmer. I figured it would be. Customers were saying a whole grid was out and there was 2,000 people without electric. Hubby had told me that as far as Albany there was no power. Albany is 2 hours away from us. Yet, we are 10 minutes from the state line, and 30 minutes down the road, in our state, there was power. That town was under a different power company though. So, we waited it out at the station. Power finally came back on around 11:30. So, the youngest and I took the long way home. When we got home the temp in the house was 58. Ok, not to bad, getting there. I'm going to try to talk hubby into getting a generator for the house. Over the summer we had the same problem. No electric for hours and it was in the upper 80's. It gets hot without so much as a fan. This way, we can at least have heat or air and running water. I'll start pricing them after the new year and see if I can talk him into it. There have been times up here in the winter the snow storms have knocked the power out. The cold is brutal and if it's widespread, there's no where to go. You can't even go into a store because they are affected to.
So, the kids were off from school today. Not good. Destroyed my plans for today and they are just making me crazy lately. They had like a week off for Thanksgiving and the Christmas break this year is 2 weeks! That's to much time off, lol! I was thinking about taking the day after Christmas off, but they will be home. Don't want to do that. Don't want to work either because the brat is home also. At least I don't have to listen to my own kids crap, but my lady's granddaughter I can't get away from. Next place I go I won't take it if there's kids there. Just can't handle it anymore. Must be getting old or something, lol.
The oldest is at the station with hubby. The youngest just got a call from a neighbor wanting him to go shopping with her. Great, go, get out, lol. Finally, finally some time to myself. It's 4:00, but I'll take what I can get. Hopefully, today will be a late day for hubby.
As I was getting the Christmas gifts out yesterday I realized that I still have sewing to do to. The pj bottoms. I had planned on working on the youngest pants since he's always around. Hubby's and the oldest I can do throughout the week, because they are at the station. but, no such luck. I only have 2 more Mondays to get the youngest pants done and I have 2 pairs for him. I have to get this done. What I really have to do is kick the kids out for the day, lol.
There has been this black cat hanging around the neighborhood. I've asked the 2 women in the neighborhood, who seem to know everything, who's cat it is. No one seems to know. It's a beautiful, black long haired cat. I haven't been able to get to close to it, but it's always hanging around my house. I took pity on it and put food and water out for it. Got pretty close to it while it was eating, but not close enough to touch. We'll see over time. I'll bring the food and water in over night, but for now, I'll feed it and see what happens. Maybe I'll be able to get close to it. I've been seeing it for a few weeks now, but since it's a black cat and I know of 2 neighbors who have black cats, I just thought it was theres. I just got close to it today, during the day, to notice it's a long hair cat. Obviously not the neighbors.
Since it's snowed and gotten colder, the Christmas spirit has set in, a little. Enough that I bought some stuff to decorate the outside of the house. I'm not doing anymore inside than I already have. It's not overly cluttered and that's fine with me. By the time we get a tree in here, it will be more than enough. I've been thinking about getting a real tree this year. We've had a fake one since we've been up here and I thought a real one might be a nice change. I'll have to tell myself that when I'm still vacuuming pine needles in August, lol. I was telling hubby about it. He said he would check into the prices. I've seen prices in Htown for trees between $20 and $25. I don't know how big they are, but I don't want a huge one. I want a 4' or 5' tree, but very fat. Then I was thinking maybe we should get a tree with the root ball so we can plant it in the back of the yard in the spring. That way it's not really a waste of money and if we do that every year, we can have a whole row of pine trees in the back of the yard. Some type of wind breakage back there. Well, maybe not for us, but for whoever lives here after us, lol. I just love pine trees. Coming from Jersey, pine trees aren't something you see a lot of. Not where I grew up at. I love the look of them when the snow stays on the branches.
Well, the dryer's done and I want to make a pot of veggie soup for dinner. I've been wanting home made veggie soup for days now.
Friday, December 5, 2008
TGIF!!!
I'm so tired this morning, I'm glad it's the end of the week. Maybe I can get some decent rest this weekend. I have to shop for vitamins because it's been a week that I've been out of them and I'm feeling it.
I went to knit last night and it was announced that next week is the last class until the new year. Geez, where did the time go?? Guess my mother is not getting gloves made by me this year for Christmas, lol. I'm having such a hard time with them, I'll be lucky to have them done by next year. I had a lot of help with them last night and still managed to mess one row up. Fortunately, its one row and I have to take that out. When I saw the gloves I thought it would be easier to make gloves using 2 straight needles. Wrong, double points are so much easier! My problem when I do these, I have to actually visualize the glove and the part I'm working on. I'm writing down all my little notes about what I did so when I go to do the second glove I'll have something to look back to. I'm going to have to do the second one right away, if not, I'll never pick them up again, lol. But, like everyone said, it's good to challenge yourself sometimes. That's fine, except when I'm in a rush for christmas, lol. The whole reason I put hubby's vest aside was the fact that it was to time consuming. Little did I know I was getting the same thing with the gloves, just a smaller scale. Guess I know what my projects are going to be for the new year, lol.
The sun is actually out here this morning. Quite a change from the dreary days we've had. I've been wanting to go shopping at this new store that opened a few months ago, but it's close to an hour drive each way. I was thinking tonight, but more than likely not. Then I was thinking maybe tomorrow, but looking at the calendar I realize christmas is closer than I think and I still have some pj's for the guys to make. Sunday they are predicting snow and again on Tuesday. I've thought Monday, but that's a really good day to work on the boys pj while they are in school. So, sale ends Wednesday. I'd like to get there this week, just don't know when, lol.
I went to knit last night and it was announced that next week is the last class until the new year. Geez, where did the time go?? Guess my mother is not getting gloves made by me this year for Christmas, lol. I'm having such a hard time with them, I'll be lucky to have them done by next year. I had a lot of help with them last night and still managed to mess one row up. Fortunately, its one row and I have to take that out. When I saw the gloves I thought it would be easier to make gloves using 2 straight needles. Wrong, double points are so much easier! My problem when I do these, I have to actually visualize the glove and the part I'm working on. I'm writing down all my little notes about what I did so when I go to do the second glove I'll have something to look back to. I'm going to have to do the second one right away, if not, I'll never pick them up again, lol. But, like everyone said, it's good to challenge yourself sometimes. That's fine, except when I'm in a rush for christmas, lol. The whole reason I put hubby's vest aside was the fact that it was to time consuming. Little did I know I was getting the same thing with the gloves, just a smaller scale. Guess I know what my projects are going to be for the new year, lol.
The sun is actually out here this morning. Quite a change from the dreary days we've had. I've been wanting to go shopping at this new store that opened a few months ago, but it's close to an hour drive each way. I was thinking tonight, but more than likely not. Then I was thinking maybe tomorrow, but looking at the calendar I realize christmas is closer than I think and I still have some pj's for the guys to make. Sunday they are predicting snow and again on Tuesday. I've thought Monday, but that's a really good day to work on the boys pj while they are in school. So, sale ends Wednesday. I'd like to get there this week, just don't know when, lol.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Thursday
Not to much going on today. A typical Thursday. Went to bed later than normal and now this morning I'm moving slow, lol. I stayed up to watch the show Parking Wars. I like that show but can never remember when it's on, lol. Having spent my share of time in Philly I can totally relate to these people. I remember only driving once to philly, and after that, we took the train. Parking seemed complicated because there were so many restrictions and time limits. Easier and cheaper to take the train and walk.
Tonight I get to go knit. I'm actually looking forward to it. An hour of time all to myself. That and I'm stuck in a pattern. I'm trying to make a pair of gloves for my mother and I'm at the point in the pattern where I just don't understand what to do. I started them the day before Thanksgiving and have been stuck since. At first I thought I just wasn't understanding because I was tired. So I looked at it the next day when I wasn't so tired and still am clueless. Time get help or they will never get done, lol. I did manage to use my time wisely and get a hat finished for hubby and a scarf for my father. Now all I have left is a hat for my father and mom's gloves. Should have all this done by christmas. I hope, lol.
We did manage to get to Bible study last night. This was the first time I had gone since the preacher left in about 2 years. It's very different now. Before there were about 7 or 8 people who went and just seemed like a lot of distractions. Now, we actually spent 20 minutes going through a book, that was just started. I think maybe it should be longer, but people seem to like it. Walking in there was like walking into church. I counted the people there last night. There was 19 of us! That's the largest Bible study I've even attended. Hubby didn't want to go so he was given chores to do while we were gone, lol. He had the dinner dishes to take care of and the laundry. I had washed 2 loads after I got home and all he had to do was take the laundry out of the dryer, fold it, and put the laundry in the washer in the dryer. At first he gave me a hard time and told me he didn't know how to work the washer. Yeah, right. So I told him just the dryer and he should be able to figure that out. Well, what I came home to was the laundry that was in the dryer was sitting on top of the dryer, unfolded. He did put the wash out of the washer into the dryer, and he washed, dried, and put away all the dishes cleaned the counter tops off, and took out the trash. Guess I can't complain to much. He was in bed when we got home to, and was home at his normal time so I guess he was really tired. He was going to go to the store in Ctown and finish taking some of the bottled drinks out and bring them to his station, but he changed his mind. I kept reminding him that we were going out and had to be home by a certain time. Since that store closed in September, we have been going back there every few weeks taking stuff out that should have been taken out when it was closed. Why, do they just not understand that when you close a store for the season, you have to take everything out of it?? Just what is so hard about that? I think the guy who was working the store should have gotten everything, not just some stuff here and there, all packed up and either sent back or taken to the station to be sold. Because, like always, hubby and the kids and I end up doing what should have been done months ago. If hubby would put his foot down about this stuff, maybe it would stop happening. We were over there Sunday afternoon ,in the rain, taking the beer out. Hubby knew I was upset because he wouldn't let me in the station. I told him I was going to ask the fool why it wasn't done and why, since he's supposed to be the boss, why he's not taking the time to do this instead of making hubby and the boys do it. He makes hubby do it because by the time hubby can leave the store it's like 3:30 in the afternoon. Hubby's supposed to be done at 4:00. This way he gets an extra hour or more out of him. So, since it's not looking like we are going to be able to go again until Sunday, I told hubby to go about 1:30 or 2:00. That way, by the time we get stuff out, take it to the station, unload it and stock it, it will be about time for him to leave. He will actually get paid for doing this instead of working for free. We'll see how it goes.
My time on here up, time to drag my butt to work now.
Tonight I get to go knit. I'm actually looking forward to it. An hour of time all to myself. That and I'm stuck in a pattern. I'm trying to make a pair of gloves for my mother and I'm at the point in the pattern where I just don't understand what to do. I started them the day before Thanksgiving and have been stuck since. At first I thought I just wasn't understanding because I was tired. So I looked at it the next day when I wasn't so tired and still am clueless. Time get help or they will never get done, lol. I did manage to use my time wisely and get a hat finished for hubby and a scarf for my father. Now all I have left is a hat for my father and mom's gloves. Should have all this done by christmas. I hope, lol.
We did manage to get to Bible study last night. This was the first time I had gone since the preacher left in about 2 years. It's very different now. Before there were about 7 or 8 people who went and just seemed like a lot of distractions. Now, we actually spent 20 minutes going through a book, that was just started. I think maybe it should be longer, but people seem to like it. Walking in there was like walking into church. I counted the people there last night. There was 19 of us! That's the largest Bible study I've even attended. Hubby didn't want to go so he was given chores to do while we were gone, lol. He had the dinner dishes to take care of and the laundry. I had washed 2 loads after I got home and all he had to do was take the laundry out of the dryer, fold it, and put the laundry in the washer in the dryer. At first he gave me a hard time and told me he didn't know how to work the washer. Yeah, right. So I told him just the dryer and he should be able to figure that out. Well, what I came home to was the laundry that was in the dryer was sitting on top of the dryer, unfolded. He did put the wash out of the washer into the dryer, and he washed, dried, and put away all the dishes cleaned the counter tops off, and took out the trash. Guess I can't complain to much. He was in bed when we got home to, and was home at his normal time so I guess he was really tired. He was going to go to the store in Ctown and finish taking some of the bottled drinks out and bring them to his station, but he changed his mind. I kept reminding him that we were going out and had to be home by a certain time. Since that store closed in September, we have been going back there every few weeks taking stuff out that should have been taken out when it was closed. Why, do they just not understand that when you close a store for the season, you have to take everything out of it?? Just what is so hard about that? I think the guy who was working the store should have gotten everything, not just some stuff here and there, all packed up and either sent back or taken to the station to be sold. Because, like always, hubby and the kids and I end up doing what should have been done months ago. If hubby would put his foot down about this stuff, maybe it would stop happening. We were over there Sunday afternoon ,in the rain, taking the beer out. Hubby knew I was upset because he wouldn't let me in the station. I told him I was going to ask the fool why it wasn't done and why, since he's supposed to be the boss, why he's not taking the time to do this instead of making hubby and the boys do it. He makes hubby do it because by the time hubby can leave the store it's like 3:30 in the afternoon. Hubby's supposed to be done at 4:00. This way he gets an extra hour or more out of him. So, since it's not looking like we are going to be able to go again until Sunday, I told hubby to go about 1:30 or 2:00. That way, by the time we get stuff out, take it to the station, unload it and stock it, it will be about time for him to leave. He will actually get paid for doing this instead of working for free. We'll see how it goes.
My time on here up, time to drag my butt to work now.
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