Brand new week

Why is it the work weeks drag on and on and the weekends, poof, gone? This weekend was rather cool so I pretty much stayed inside and tried to keep warm, lol. Sunday was much more pleasant temp wise and spent the day doing errands and shopping for my trip.

Went to walmart to the return the pj's that I bought. Found something else for less money. It was a pink t-shirt and plaid pink pants. The cool part about the pants was you could make capris out of them to. Got up to the register and the cashier says she can't sell them to me. Huh?? So she rings the tag through again and it comes up sale not allowed or something. I'm totally dumbfounded and she says sorry I can't sell you the pants. Since I was getting tired and crabby and I'm in walmart anyway, I told her I didn't want the top either. We get out in the car and the boys were asking me why she didn't call a manager or something. My attitude was if you can't do more than just cash people out, then I don't have to buy that stuff. Problem is, I still need something to sleep in for my trip this weekend. Maybe I can talk hubby into taking me to Fashion Bug when we are in town Wednesday.

So, today was super nice out and I decided to finish weeding the other side of the house this afternoon. I'm happy to say it's all done and all the bulbs are planted. Now to tackle the front:( Even hubby says the front needs some serious help, lol. Maybe Wednesday afternoon, maybe Thursday afternoon. Depends on the weather. I really would much rather do it myself since hubby tend to want to pull all the flowers and leave weeds, lol. Now that I've sat for a little, I'm starting to hurt. Didn't plan on doing all that but once I got going I just kept going.

While I was out I had to rebuy the tomatoes and peppers that the frost got. So every night after dinner I'm bringing everything in and sitting it on the sun room floor for the night. Not taking any more chances now until after Memorial day. That's when everyone around here says it's safe to put plants out. I had gone to Lowe's looking for the replacement veggies, but, surprise surprise, all their veggie plants were hit by the frost to!

Time to go res these old bones.

I choose for this weekend to be a good one

It's the end of a very long and exhausting day. It's been a rather unsettled week for me. Everyone in this house seems to irritate me. Maybe it's me, maybe I just need a break.

Work isn't getting any better. It's gotten worse actually. One person who I go see 3 times a week is now 2 times a week. Family decision, not this persons and it has nothing to do with me. This really upsets me, not because I'm losing time, but I finally got this person into a routine, which is what they really need, and now a decision is made among the family members to change things. There are just some people who need a regular routine. Good side, I have two whole days off. Haven't told hubby yet, he might not take this well, but it's out of my control. God will give me more work when He thinks we need it. Maybe it's hubby who needs to get his priorities straight where the finances are concerned. Things are always tight when he gets back from India. Maybe he should learn to come home when he's supposed to or not plan such long trips. He has to understand things are bad everywhere, not just here. I've done the job hunting thing and everyone will take your application, but no one is hiring. I've got two teenage boys who can't even get an interview for anything. I think they should use their time wisely and get educated and plan for the future.

One good thing is my trip is coming up this week. A whole weekend away. No cooking, cleaning, cavemen with their malfunctions. Just two days of being around other Christian women and learning. I've got my list of things to take all ready. I hope! I keep thinking of other things I need to bring. Went shopping today for the small travel things I need and a new memory card for the camera. Much to my surprise my walmart has anything kodak clearance. No kodak memory cards to be found anywhere. I considered the other memory cards, but only the cheap ones, that won't work in my camera could you actually take off the hook. All the others had some security thing on them that I couldn't even turn around to the back to see what's compatible with. That's the only thing I didn't get today. I did manage to pick up a pair of pj's in the wrong size, so back to walmart I have to go to exchange them. I asked hubby for a small suitcase to take. He brought the suitcase last week. Think he's anxious for me to go, lol? At least I can air it out and start filling it slowly so I'm not cramming everything in on Thursday. Please pray for good weather and no high humidity. I"m not a warm and humid temps kind of gal.

Spoke to mom last week and for now, the doc is going to do the catheterization on her arteries. One of the arteries he has 80% cleared. He will do the other 20% in about another 2 weeks, but he will have to use something different on the end of the cath to remove the blockage because it's packed so tightly. As long as the cath works she won't be looking at surgery. She refuses to tell my brother or sister and has forbidden me to say anything to them. I talk to a cousin on facebook and mom got angry with me that I told her. No one told me not to tell her. My mom is this cousins favorite aunt and she was really upset no one told her. Well, no one told me until after mom was in and out of the hospital and had one cath already done. Just never understand why she keeps this kind of stuff to herself.

Well, I'm tired and the sofa is calling my name. Time to end this day and look forward to a more relaxing weekend.

Prayers please

I've just finished talking to my mom who I haven't spoken to in a while due to missed phone calls. Anyway, I find out she spend the past 4 days in the hospital because of heart problems. She has 3 blocked arteries. They tried the cath but it wouldn't work. They sent her home and told her if she has any pain to come back. She's been having a little pain so she is due back tomorrow. Her options are the stint, balloons, or open heart surgery. She won't know anything until tomorrow as to weather she's staying or being given a surgery date. She's asking for prayers so I'm passing her request along.

I'll update as I know more.

Hot, hot, hot in Upstate NY

Hubby's birthday was yesterday. I made him an angel food cake, from scratch. I don't normally make that cake from scratch because there's just to much beating of the eggs involved. He really enjoyed the cake though. Instead of putting one or two candles on the cake, I found candles that said happy birthday, so I used them thinking they were different. First thing the man said was, "to many candles on the cake." LOL. That really wasn't my intention. Guess next time I need to just use one. Or two that say his age, lol. Anyway, he came home for dinner because I made chicken tikka masala yesterday. In all this heat. I had enough sense to make the cake the day before when it was in the 60's.

This weekend has been in the mid-80's and all I want to do is sleep. Nothing has gotten accomplished. I did some planting Friday night after the sun went down. Now I have to remember to water what I planted. Still have some bulbs left and some petunias which I wanted to take care of this weekend, but I had no idea it was going to be so, so stinkin hot. It feels worse today because there is more humidity today. They are calling for thunderstorms and temps in the 70's for the coming week. Anything to get rid of this heat. Just not ready for it yet.,

Did a little food shopping today, not much in the mood but we were in town, so might as well.

Every morning when the alarm goes off I have to think what day it is. I always want to turn the alarm off and go back to sleep. Guess I need to start having a nap in the afternoons again.

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.