Sad, sad day

This whole week so far has been one of those super busy on the go weeks. Today was no different. I've taken on an early case, early meaning it starts at 8:30 am which is the normal time I used to get up. Now my body has to adjust to getting up at 6:00 am. I'm not adjusting well. Anyway, today was my long day. I went to the early case, and headed to my other one. Today is also the day this patient has the weekly cleaning lady come in to do all the heavy, deep cleaning. She arrived 15 minutes before I did. My patient had passed and it was the cleaning lady who found her, not me. Hate to say this but I'm so glad it wasn't me this time. I've been thought that before and it's not good. I'm so exhausted. I'm thinking about skipping Bible study and just veggie for the night. There's things to do done, but I have to keep reminding myself that I now only work 3 days a week not 5 and much shorter hours. It will take some time for me to wrap my head around that. I don't have to rush through things at night because I now have a lot of time during the day to do the housework. I think I need the break. With hubby still away, I've been pushing myself, physically and mentally. Maybe I need this physical and mental break right now. At least tomorrow will be sunny before the rain moves in .

Not much of anything

Yesterday I got to start a new case. I'm going to like this one to. A huge plus is the fact that it's 10 minutes from my house, versus the 25 minutes for the other one. I've already decided that if the option for more time at the new one comes along, I'm grabbing it and getting rid of the other one. Not that I don't like the other one, but it's a distance and in the bad weather, it's just not fun.

So yesterday I had to do this new case and then a meeting at noon. These things are always on the verge of boring anyway, but the presenter yesterday was awful. Talk about slow, I don't think she could have gone any slower. It was like she didn't have anything else to do. Well, we all had other things we would rather have been doing. We get paid for these things, but only minimum. That's painful enough especially when some of us, like me, had to give up time at our regular places for this. But, walking out in the sunshine after being bored to sleep for 4 hours, made me feel better.

I had done some shopping before the meeting but didn't have time to finish it all and eat, so I had to go back and get the rest done. I still have a few things I have to get, but can get that stuff at a dollar store. Might stop by today after work, or then again, maybe not. Depends on how I feel. I'm having to get up way earlier than normal for this new case. It starts at the time I normally roll out of bed, so I'm not exactly full on energy lately. And I have to force myself to go to bed earlier because I'm not a morning person at all. Last night I was falling asleep by 9 pm. Unheard of for me, but again, I didn't sleep well the night before. I slept good last night though! So this morning I got up at the earlier hour and did some stuff around the house before I go to work. I only have the one today, but I'll never get my body into a routine if I only get up early when I have to be.

Hubby should be finding out about his sisters visa today. If no visa then he's changing his ticket for another 7 days. If she gets her visa then he's leaving on Thursday for home. It's frustrating not knowing for sure what's going on, but he's dragging his feet because he really wants to come home now. If not, he would have changed his ticket already. I really do feel bad for him right now.

Well the laundry's waiting, want to get that all folded before work. Even get the dishes done to!

Productive weekend

I've gotten quite a bit done this weekend. Now I'm so tired! Spent the whole afternoon out and about. It was beautiful outside, last place I wanted to be was inside so errand running we went. Got home and was relaxing when I realized I was supposed to be someplace for dinner. As I was leaving my avon lady called and said she was coming in about an hour, so the youngest got to stay home and wait for her. I had to go, but made good time, was back in about 2 hours. Got home in time to call hubby and he was walking out the door to go to the temple so had to wait until he got back to talk, then the connection was really bad and we kept disconnecting.

Treated myself to a visit to the yarn shop. Took the youngest. All he kept asking was where we were going because I didn't tell him when we left. He was mystified in the yarn shop, lol. Then when he saw the yarn winder in action, he was hooked, lol! I went for needles and some cashmere, but came out with 2 skeins of a hunter green wool and 2 skeins of a burnt orange cotton. And my needles. All the yarn was on sale, so I didn't spent to much. Have plans for the orange, but not the green. I looked at the small amount of cashmere she had, but didn't like any of the colors, so went with the cotton instead. I'll get more use out of it in cotton anyway.

While we were out we hit a fast food place for lunch. So not a good idea. Upset my digestive system about an hour after I ate. Things were not good when I went to my friends house for dinner, but I ate a little anyway. Well, by about 4 am I was having issues. I never settled down until about 7 am. By that time I was so tired, I turned the alarm off and just slept. Missed church but I figured God knew why I was still in bed and not in church.

Felt much better when I got up so did a lot of little things. Things that have needed to be done, but just never get done because it's not important, really. Unearthed my bike in the sun room. This I have been working on little by little, but today I got it accomplished. There were plants hanging above it, a plant on the seat and a plant on the front where the tire is. They are all relocated. Under and around it were my baskets with various knitting projects in it. Some abandoned, some not. All the baskets are emptied and sitting in front of the fireplace in the living room. The projects, the abandoned ones were all pulled out and wool stashed. The other works in progress were all but in bags and tied and put away to be done later. I even dug out the wool hubby brought back last year and started winding that. Those are sorted by color and are going in the baskets in front of the fire place, for now. When they are all wound, then they will be sorted by project and bagged. Dealt with the pile of magazines that are always sitting around waiting to be read and never are, put the overflow of books in a new home, instead of in front of a bookcase, put the scarves back on the pieces of furniture they belong on, dug out my tablecloth for the kitchen table, place mats are on the table again, changed the kitchen curtains, did 4 loads of laundry and put all of my clean laundry away. And I wonder why I'm tired!!

Patience

I felt like this rabbit this morning when I woke up and saw snow coming from the sky!! Luckily, it was just a snow shower and the rest of the week should be better, sun and clouds. And lots of melting!

Talked to hubby last night and still no visa, but he called the ticket place and they did have a seat on his flight for his sister, so he held it. Problem is, they will only hold the seat for 3 days then it gets sold or he has to pay. So, he has until Friday to figure out what he's going to do if they still haven't heard anything about her visa. I know hubby, if the wait goes into the week after he's supposed to leave, he will stay because he promised his sisters husband he would bring her back here. I'm trying not to get to excited yet about his coming back. I still keep telling myself I just might have another week or two to wait.

All this has made me wonder how it would feel to know everything that's going to happen before it happens. I know that's not God's plan, but still I wonder. And I know why I keep getting tested on my patience. It's because I don't have any when it comes to things like that! Important things, things I should have taken care of yesterday, I have all the patience in the world for, lol. Guess I'm backwards and God wants to fix that, lol.

Sunshine!!!!!!

I thought I was imagining things this morning when I woke up and saw the sun! Wow, what a great feeling. I just had to open all the blinds to let the sun in. It's been an absolutely beautiful day today. Sunny all day long. And not to cold either. It's starting to cloud up now, but that's ok, it's going on 5pm. Believe me, I took every opportunity I could get to go outside and be in the sunshine today.

Since it was such a nice day, I almost took the scenic route home. But, I went through the cities instead. As I hit CLtown, there was so much traffic backed up to the light. I saw flashing red lights off to the right where there's a vacant store so I thought someone was pulled over and they went in there. As I get closer I saw a trooper standing off the side of the road. But he didn't have anyone pulled over, he was just standing there. I saw a fire engine come through the intersection, from behind him. They I saw 2 ambulances coming up from behind me and turning where the fire engine had come from. Had I gone that way I would have been caught up in that. So, I'm glad I didn't go that way today. I don't know what happened or how far down the road it was, but I'm glad I went the other way. If it was an accident I do hope everyone involved is ok, though.



Since I'm experiencing a case of spring fever, I had the boys clear a path for me from the back door to the clothes line. This weekend is supposed to be just as nice and maybe I'll hang some laundry outside. Also had them clean the deck off in the back. Days like today make me want to just sit outside, maybe over the weekend I'll get my chance.

I've been hearing that hubby's cousins wife is going back to India next month. And she's taking the daughter with her. So, while she's waiting on something or other, they have taken the daughter out of school. I've also been hearing from the other employee that the wife doesn't want my oldest doing things with the son. They went to the movies over the weekend and she had a fit. It was just a movie, and I dropped them and picked them back up. I don't see the problem there and apparently the kids father didn't because he was the one who said he could go. There comes a time when you have to let go and let your kids do things for themselves. To each his own I guess.

Hubby's supposed to find out about holding an opening on his flight today. I hope he did and I hope there's one available. I've also saw on the news that the airport that he is flying into has closed it's main runway for the next 4 months. They are making repairs to it, which means all planes have to use the 3 smaller runways. This means hours and hours of delays for all flights going out of and into that airport. Just another reason he needs to get home, lol!

New month, new attitude

At least for today, lol. Woke up not wanting to get up this morning. Nothing unusual there. But, as I was moving around I noticed that the sky wasn't it's normal gray, it was actually brighter! Actually saw the sun, in spots, on my way to work. Maybe it was the sun shining, for a few seconds, that I needed to see. Anyway, the work day went well. Have to admit that I was missing hubby so much this morning that I tried calling him. I say tried because the connection was so bad, we talked for maybe 2 seconds and that was it. I think I just needed to hear the sound of his voice. Anyway................. Like I said, the day went well, until I got home. Then I had a major meltdown on the boys. They are still staying out of my way. It just really irritated me that they only have a few things to do around the house and can't do them. Seriously, it took them less than 30 minutes to do the few things I called and asked them to do. Thirty minutes of their time!!

What I did notice is that I'm feeling like things have been out of control for so long that I need to get things back to normal. I keep looking at the calendar and seeing that hubby should be back the end of next week. I say should because, if you've read my blog for any time you know something always happens and hubby ends up staying in India longer than planned. As of tonight I don't know of anything that would keep him longer, but we all know how that goes............... When I think of hubby coming back I actually think of him coming back the third week of March, or maybe later, not the second week of March. Weird, huh!

Well, the boys are done the dishes and I need to run the oldest, so I'm off once again.

I think I need to find a good hiding spot

It never fails, every time I sit down to work on my paper, something or someone interrupts me. Either one of the kids, cat, buzzer going off on something, someone stopping over unannounced ( I really don't mind), or the phone is for me, and with two teenagers in the house, the phone is rarely for me. It's like there's a hidden camera somewhere, lol. What really gets me though is if I just goof around on the computer, read a book, or watch tv, no one would bother me for hours! I'll never understand it.

Went to church this morning and I do feel better. I needed it. There weren't many people there though, probably because of the previous snow fall and the snow still coming down this morning. But, I was there. Almost lost my shoes in the driveway because now that the temps are in the upper 30's the snow is starting to melt some, so everything is becoming muddy. I heard we got over an inch of rain between Thursday and Friday. That same person said one inch of rain is equal to about a foot of snow. Glad it was rain. No one was allowed to park close to the church because of the the snow falling off the roof and onto the cars. They were talking about how a few years ago the pastor was preaching and just about winding up his message which had something to do with God's power, when some snow that was on the roof slid off. Since this church is a very old church with a steep roof, the force of the snow falling off the roof makes the entire church shake. Picture an old church, miles of stairs up to the front doors, which are double, pillars in front and a steeple on top almost as tall as the church itself. Falling snow gains a lot of speed coming down off the roof.

The oldest had decided yesterday that he wanted to go to the movies today. The movie he wanted to see was showing at 12:30 and again at 3:45. Told him if I went to church he might miss the 12:30 one. Well, he never texted me back what he wanted to do. So today when I got home from church he texted me wanting to know where I was, he was waiting! Communication kid, communication, may as well learn this now. So, he ended up at the movie late. Since I had to go back into town to get him I decided to take the youngest to wally world to check for new sneakers. His old ones are giving him blisters in the back of his heel. He has another pair and boots, but since I was going to be in the area, I decided to check and see.

On the way home I asked the oldest if he had clean clothes for school tomorrow and of course, he didn't. Stopped at home so he could grab some, and he only got enough for tomorrow. Dropped him at his room he told me he had dirty clothes. The kid comes out with 4 bags of dirty clothes!! I was not a happy mom to see that one. I just might let it wait and let him stay home next weekend and work on his clothes. That's just wrong! I know if I tell hubby he'll have a fit and tell me to tell the kid to take his clothes to the station and wash them there. I just might, I'm not a laundry service for this kid.

Hubby's been complaining about the warm temps in India. I think he's ready to come home, it's been almost 30 days, it's the time when he starts getting grumpy. He should know something this week about his sisters visa. The sooner he knows, the better he will know what he's doing.