I probably should have called this entry moms break day, since I only did what I wanted to do and nothing more. The morning was rough since no one wanted to get out of bed and go to church, but they went anyway. I think the only one who was anxious to go was hubby. He's been promising for a while to go, and always changed his mind the night before. Well, I woke him when he told me to wake him and he was up and in the shower before I realized it. When I was calling to the boys to see how close they were to being ready, hubby was getting ready to go out the door, lol. We did get out early and he got about a 2 hour nap before he had to leave for work, so it's all good.
The cat isn't feeling good today. She left me little packages all over the hallway. Not happy about cleaning the hallway before church. But, ever since I've been home she is attached to me. More than normal. She was even more vocal this morning than normal to. Since she's an indoor cat the boys went outside and brought some grass in. She hasn't touched it. So, if she's still not herself tomorrow, I'll take her outside. We tried letting her out today but she didn't want any part of it. I even went outside thinking she would follow, she just laid down in the window so she could see me. I gave her some chicken juice from dinner, she did drink a little bit of that, so maybe she's feeling a little better. I haven't seen any packages. Yet.
Well, I rented movies for tonight, so that's the plan. Movies and knitting, lol. I lead such an exciting life, lol!
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
Four day weekend
It's the start of my 4 day weekend and I hope to use the time wisely, lol. Today is going to be another warm day, but not as warm as yesterday. I worked longer than normal yesterday in all that heat, but with the humidity low and a breeze going, it wasn't as bad as it could have been. Knitting was cancelled because the woman whose house we were going to wasn't going to be home. I really was debating on going anyway since the heat makes me just want to sleep anyway. And I was so tired, my eyes were burning. Since knitting was cancelled, I went shopping in the evening instead. I was just in this mood to not be home so I figured if I went last night, then I could stay home most of today. It's going to be warm again, but not as warm as yesterday.
Today I plan on getting some weeding done around the shed. That is the last of the weeding. Then we are supposed to be getting mulch tomorrow. Tomorrow is supposed to only be in the mid 70's, which will feel so nice. I'll be glad to see the upper 80's gone for a while. I want to get the rest of my pots around the house planted with seeds. The vegetable garden is done. Today the boys have to work on digging for the herb garden.
Lots of plans and we all kind of got really lazy today and did a whole lot of nothing, lol. I got my containers planted with seeds. Until I ran out of potting soil, lol. So tomorrow when we are in town I'll try and get hubby to get some more, maybe we can look at fencing for around the flower bed at the deck. Then on Friday I'll get the petunia's I want for the hanging planters and I'll be done. Then it will be time to concentrate on the inside of the house, which gets neglected when I work so much on the outside.
A friend of ours is giving the youngest a bunch of flat stones to use to make something in our yard. He wants to make a flower bed and put a water feature in it. I really just want a nice sunny flower bed. We bought some seeds for him to plant in there, but he has to dig the area before he lays the stone. The stone he picked out is called Black Glass. He said it has sparkles in it. This guy went and bought a bunch of stone at a discounted price and offered to give the youngest some. He usually takes the boys to youth group and brings them back home again. Really nice of him, I just wish hubby wasn't working all the time and could do this kind of stuff with them. This guy has 5 or 6 kids of his own, but they are a little older than mine, so maybe he just is missing the younger years with his sons. But, the boys enjoy doing things with him.
Speaking of boys they are home already. How did it get so late! I have to have the boys up and out the door at 7:45 am tomorrow so I guess we all need to get to sleep soon!
Today I plan on getting some weeding done around the shed. That is the last of the weeding. Then we are supposed to be getting mulch tomorrow. Tomorrow is supposed to only be in the mid 70's, which will feel so nice. I'll be glad to see the upper 80's gone for a while. I want to get the rest of my pots around the house planted with seeds. The vegetable garden is done. Today the boys have to work on digging for the herb garden.
Lots of plans and we all kind of got really lazy today and did a whole lot of nothing, lol. I got my containers planted with seeds. Until I ran out of potting soil, lol. So tomorrow when we are in town I'll try and get hubby to get some more, maybe we can look at fencing for around the flower bed at the deck. Then on Friday I'll get the petunia's I want for the hanging planters and I'll be done. Then it will be time to concentrate on the inside of the house, which gets neglected when I work so much on the outside.
A friend of ours is giving the youngest a bunch of flat stones to use to make something in our yard. He wants to make a flower bed and put a water feature in it. I really just want a nice sunny flower bed. We bought some seeds for him to plant in there, but he has to dig the area before he lays the stone. The stone he picked out is called Black Glass. He said it has sparkles in it. This guy went and bought a bunch of stone at a discounted price and offered to give the youngest some. He usually takes the boys to youth group and brings them back home again. Really nice of him, I just wish hubby wasn't working all the time and could do this kind of stuff with them. This guy has 5 or 6 kids of his own, but they are a little older than mine, so maybe he just is missing the younger years with his sons. But, the boys enjoy doing things with him.
Speaking of boys they are home already. How did it get so late! I have to have the boys up and out the door at 7:45 am tomorrow so I guess we all need to get to sleep soon!
Monday, May 18, 2009
What a day
It's been such a long drawn out day. First thing this morning we had made an appt to get the car inspected and have the noise in the front end checked out. Well........................ The inspection didn't happen because they didn't have any more stickers, but we still have time so when they get them in they will call us. As for the noise, well, it was one of those things were if you replace this, then you have to do that, and then there's this other thing you have to do and so on and so on. We did end up with new tires all the way around, but I kind of figured that. When we had the last oil change done, we took it to this same place and had the guy do an oil change and check to see what was making this noise in the front end. He said there was nothing wrong that he could find. Ok. Today we had the owner work on the car, and you know, months later the noise is worse and more expensive. So, from now on only the owner will be working on my car if we need anything more than an oil change. We have used this guy for years now and when he had the old shop he always had the same mechanic work on our car. I liked that. About a year ago he sold the old place and bought a new and much needed bigger place, but has only one mechanic and himself working there. The old, small place had a lot of mechanics working there. This guy who works with him I really don't remember from the old place. But he won't be touching my car again. Maybe if he could have spotted the problem months ago, it would not have been so expensive this time. Hubby is not a happy camper right now. But, we didn't have to put it on a credit card so that helped with his mood some.
Since we had a 3 hour wait for the car, we took a walk. A long walk, 30 minutes there and back. I'm glad we got so much walking done today, I think we both needed it. It's been a while since I've walked any, but I was surprised my legs didn't hurt. I told hubby we should do this every day. He agreed. It wasn't the kind of walk that we were pushing it, but it was nice to just get out and walk at a nice easy pace. I know, I know, it really doesn't count, but at least we did something. We walked to his favorite home improvement store, lol. When we were done in there, he wanted to walk farther and go get something to eat, but I knew it would be so hard walking all that way back on a full stomach, so we decided to wait for that. We saw a lot of things we need for the house this year. I really want to get the deck done this year. We didn't do anything last year, and the year before we had trouble buying the stain. It must have been very popular because we could never get it when we went for it. Since we didn't know how much we needed, we just bought 2 gallons at a time, but we really needed about 4 gallons to do the deck, front and back steps. We will wait for that until later. We priced closet doors for our room and the boys, we will most likely get them this weekend as well as the mulch, if I get all the edgers placed around the house. We bought some, so I have to see how far we will get with them and try to get the rest of what we need this weekend since they go off sale on Saturday.
It's going to be a very busy week again. Work called and wanted me to work late on Thursday. I said fine since I'm off on Friday. Then she calls and wants me to work Tuesday night to and I said no. Today was long, tomorrow is the only day I have to start on the outside, and the boys stay late at school that day as well as Wednesday. Wednesday we have Bible study, which we are going to, so there probably won't be much done that day and then on Thursday, I have two early meetings at the school for the boys, then working late, and then of course, I have to make time for knitting, lol. I have a feeling I'm going to be totally exhausted by then and so glad I took Friday off.
Poor hubby was up early with me this morning and we weren't even home 5 minutes and the fool was calling to see why he wasn't at work yet. Geez, give the man a chance to breathe, will ya! The boys and I replanted the onions in the garden since over the weekend, they didn't bother to separate the onions and just planted all the clumps together. I was busy and thought they understood what I meant. Apparently not. So instead of one and a half rows of onions we now have three, lol. I'm afraid once we get the tomatoes, spinach and lettuce in there will be no room for the zucchini. I'm thinking I will plant that in a smaller space next to the garden since the wild animals don't bother with the zucchini plants. We have the garden fenced in because we were feeding the wild animals, lol. And we still have the herbs to get in. It rained so hard the other night that I told the boys to wait until the soil drys out some, because as wet as it is, it's really heavy to dig up. But, I'm going to try very hard to get everything done this week. Then maybe I'll be able to rest for a little while, lol.
Since we had a 3 hour wait for the car, we took a walk. A long walk, 30 minutes there and back. I'm glad we got so much walking done today, I think we both needed it. It's been a while since I've walked any, but I was surprised my legs didn't hurt. I told hubby we should do this every day. He agreed. It wasn't the kind of walk that we were pushing it, but it was nice to just get out and walk at a nice easy pace. I know, I know, it really doesn't count, but at least we did something. We walked to his favorite home improvement store, lol. When we were done in there, he wanted to walk farther and go get something to eat, but I knew it would be so hard walking all that way back on a full stomach, so we decided to wait for that. We saw a lot of things we need for the house this year. I really want to get the deck done this year. We didn't do anything last year, and the year before we had trouble buying the stain. It must have been very popular because we could never get it when we went for it. Since we didn't know how much we needed, we just bought 2 gallons at a time, but we really needed about 4 gallons to do the deck, front and back steps. We will wait for that until later. We priced closet doors for our room and the boys, we will most likely get them this weekend as well as the mulch, if I get all the edgers placed around the house. We bought some, so I have to see how far we will get with them and try to get the rest of what we need this weekend since they go off sale on Saturday.
It's going to be a very busy week again. Work called and wanted me to work late on Thursday. I said fine since I'm off on Friday. Then she calls and wants me to work Tuesday night to and I said no. Today was long, tomorrow is the only day I have to start on the outside, and the boys stay late at school that day as well as Wednesday. Wednesday we have Bible study, which we are going to, so there probably won't be much done that day and then on Thursday, I have two early meetings at the school for the boys, then working late, and then of course, I have to make time for knitting, lol. I have a feeling I'm going to be totally exhausted by then and so glad I took Friday off.
Poor hubby was up early with me this morning and we weren't even home 5 minutes and the fool was calling to see why he wasn't at work yet. Geez, give the man a chance to breathe, will ya! The boys and I replanted the onions in the garden since over the weekend, they didn't bother to separate the onions and just planted all the clumps together. I was busy and thought they understood what I meant. Apparently not. So instead of one and a half rows of onions we now have three, lol. I'm afraid once we get the tomatoes, spinach and lettuce in there will be no room for the zucchini. I'm thinking I will plant that in a smaller space next to the garden since the wild animals don't bother with the zucchini plants. We have the garden fenced in because we were feeding the wild animals, lol. And we still have the herbs to get in. It rained so hard the other night that I told the boys to wait until the soil drys out some, because as wet as it is, it's really heavy to dig up. But, I'm going to try very hard to get everything done this week. Then maybe I'll be able to rest for a little while, lol.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
It's cold here again!!
Yesterday was a cloudy, but comfortable day. Hubby and the oldest spent most of the day mowing lawns. First the lawn at the other store, then to the station, then to our house. We did stop off and get the rest of the vegetable plants for the garden and you know I had to throw in a few flowers, lol. By the time everything was said and done, it was well after 2 pm. And it was another one of those hit the floor running days. Hubby napped for about an hour and finally got to work at 4 pm. Since I was outside with them most of the day, my allergies were really kicking from all the mowing, so I took my pill and was so ready to sleep. But, instead, I went food shopping, thinking today would be a nice day for planting outside. Wrong! It's like in the lower 50's today and very windy. To make matters worse, it rained, like poured last night so everything is wet and cold. I was wet and cold. We went outside this morning and while I weeded around the deck, the boys worked on planting some more green beans, got the onions in and cucumbers. Hubby slept since he didn't get home until about 4:30 this morning. He had promised to help, but well, he did his normal drinking and talking thing and well............................ Since it was so cold outside, that was all we did. I did get some flowers in the ground and the ivy I had bought last weekend. I'm thinking tomorrow, since it is supposed to be sunny and a little warmer, we will plant the zucchini, and the seeds for the spinach and lettuces. Then later in the week we will get to the tomatoes and hopefully dig the small herb garden. They need to get in the ground by the end of the week to. Hubby's punishment for not helping is he gets to do the weeding. All summer long.
Friday, May 15, 2009
Ho hum kind of week
I'm glad it's Friday, but why I don't know. Its been an really off kind of week for me. Nothing has really excited me much this week. Hubby's finally starting to feel better, which is a really good thing! It's been a full work week. The brat child was home for 2 of the days, which is just frustrating and exhausting in itself. Her explanation for being home one day was just total crap I think. Personally, I think she was suspended from school. That's what my kids told me when I asked them about her. Makes more sense to me.
Went to Bible study this week. Glad I did, it was really interesting and got me out of this funky mood I've been in for a while. Hubby and I were supposed to go plant shopping for the past 2 days now and it has yet to happen. Every day the fool is having some kind of malfunction and we can't go. Well, tomorrow is Saturday and if I get hubby up early we just might get there. He needs to go to bed earlier so he can get up earlier, lol. He was also saying he was going to try to make church with me this week to. I sure hope so. Maybe I'm just missing hubby. I got to work he's sleeping. He comes home from work and I'm sleeping. I come home from work and he's working. We keep missing each other.
Got a call from work today about working, as a fill in, for a different case on Saturday. The one I turned down. I really, really didn't want to do it, but said I would anyway. I kept telling myself that it's supposed to rain later in the day anyway. Talked to hubby about it and he said do it if I want to. So I said I would, only because being willing to do it would redeem myself with the woman who does the scheduling. Well, about 10 minutes after I agree to do this and I get info, she calls back and says this is the weekend that we're not needed there. Good, I'm really glad she messed up like that. At least she knows I'm willing anyway. Don't know whats going to happen come June and I don't have anything lined up. It won't bother me any, but hubby will be having a fit I think. Little does he know I'm taking the whole month of August off. He never wants me to take more than a week or two off. Phooey on that this year. There are some things I need to get done with the house, like painting inside, this year.
Went to knit last night which was fun. It always is, I don't know why I always think about not going. We have been talking about maybe moving the day to Mondays instead because one of the women will be starting Bible study on Thursday nights. Three out of the four of us were there and Monday all will work for us. So, next week we will know for sure. I was thinking about that today and maybe Monday nights will be easier for me. That way I will still be out of the house 3 nights, just not in a row. By the time Thursday gets here, I'm just so tired some weeks. But, I'm not willing to give up my social things either.
So, officially my weekend has started and I'm at a loss as to what I want to do. Guess I'll just play it by ear and see what happens.
Went to Bible study this week. Glad I did, it was really interesting and got me out of this funky mood I've been in for a while. Hubby and I were supposed to go plant shopping for the past 2 days now and it has yet to happen. Every day the fool is having some kind of malfunction and we can't go. Well, tomorrow is Saturday and if I get hubby up early we just might get there. He needs to go to bed earlier so he can get up earlier, lol. He was also saying he was going to try to make church with me this week to. I sure hope so. Maybe I'm just missing hubby. I got to work he's sleeping. He comes home from work and I'm sleeping. I come home from work and he's working. We keep missing each other.
Got a call from work today about working, as a fill in, for a different case on Saturday. The one I turned down. I really, really didn't want to do it, but said I would anyway. I kept telling myself that it's supposed to rain later in the day anyway. Talked to hubby about it and he said do it if I want to. So I said I would, only because being willing to do it would redeem myself with the woman who does the scheduling. Well, about 10 minutes after I agree to do this and I get info, she calls back and says this is the weekend that we're not needed there. Good, I'm really glad she messed up like that. At least she knows I'm willing anyway. Don't know whats going to happen come June and I don't have anything lined up. It won't bother me any, but hubby will be having a fit I think. Little does he know I'm taking the whole month of August off. He never wants me to take more than a week or two off. Phooey on that this year. There are some things I need to get done with the house, like painting inside, this year.
Went to knit last night which was fun. It always is, I don't know why I always think about not going. We have been talking about maybe moving the day to Mondays instead because one of the women will be starting Bible study on Thursday nights. Three out of the four of us were there and Monday all will work for us. So, next week we will know for sure. I was thinking about that today and maybe Monday nights will be easier for me. That way I will still be out of the house 3 nights, just not in a row. By the time Thursday gets here, I'm just so tired some weeks. But, I'm not willing to give up my social things either.
So, officially my weekend has started and I'm at a loss as to what I want to do. Guess I'll just play it by ear and see what happens.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Monday
I haven't even been up for an hour yet and the phone is ringing off the hook! This usually isn't a good thing. Work has called and left messages on the land line and my cell. Well, they will just have to wait until later this afternoon. Hubby's work has already called, twice, and a relative, who left a message. It's only 9 am!
Hubby has a doc appt and I have a hair appt, both at the same time. I'll drop hubby and go do my thing. I'm sure I'll be done way before him. Then a few errands and possibly into town and then home. Then there's the never ending laundry and plants waiting to be planted. Hubby will probably want to take a nap until he has to leave for work, which will mess up any errands I have to do. I like to just get everything done when I'm out. If I come home, I like to stay. It gets very tiring having to leave the house every 30 minutes or so to go do something. The boys have to stay late at school today to get tutoring for their final math exam. They have to pass this to graduate, but the youngest is doing it this year so he won't have to next year. The oldest has no choice.
It was supposed to go down into the 30's last night and predictions of possibly some frost. Since the veggie plants aren't in the ground yet, I brought them in and sat them on the dryer. I can't believe it's May and it's getting cold enough at night for frost. I refuse to turn the heat on though. I just put a heavy blanket on our bed and we were fine, but you could tell it got cold over night. If the cool air wants to hang on I'm fine with that as long as when the heat comes it doesn't hang on until December, lol.
Well, my time on here is up. I have hubby's breakfast to get, dishes to wash and maybe some laundry to fold before we leave for the day.
Hubby has a doc appt and I have a hair appt, both at the same time. I'll drop hubby and go do my thing. I'm sure I'll be done way before him. Then a few errands and possibly into town and then home. Then there's the never ending laundry and plants waiting to be planted. Hubby will probably want to take a nap until he has to leave for work, which will mess up any errands I have to do. I like to just get everything done when I'm out. If I come home, I like to stay. It gets very tiring having to leave the house every 30 minutes or so to go do something. The boys have to stay late at school today to get tutoring for their final math exam. They have to pass this to graduate, but the youngest is doing it this year so he won't have to next year. The oldest has no choice.
It was supposed to go down into the 30's last night and predictions of possibly some frost. Since the veggie plants aren't in the ground yet, I brought them in and sat them on the dryer. I can't believe it's May and it's getting cold enough at night for frost. I refuse to turn the heat on though. I just put a heavy blanket on our bed and we were fine, but you could tell it got cold over night. If the cool air wants to hang on I'm fine with that as long as when the heat comes it doesn't hang on until December, lol.
Well, my time on here is up. I have hubby's breakfast to get, dishes to wash and maybe some laundry to fold before we leave for the day.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Happy mothers day
My plans for today are to do as little as possible, lol. Since church is in the early evening today, I put dinner in the crock pot. I honestly don't know what they were thinking when they made today's service at 4 pm. Such an odd time.
I'm still working on all the laundry that's accumulated. I'm going to finish the jeans today and then that's it. I spent most of yesterday doing the colors and some jeans. Tomorrow will be the towels, whites and sheets. I've been changing the sheets on our bed every morning. Hubby has been going to bed with his poison ivy covered up, but by morning, his arms are unwrapped and there are spots on the sheets where it's touched his body, so I've been changing them. I so don't want this. Just the thought of this makes me itch like crazy anyway and I know for sure if I get this I'm on my own. He won't take care of me like I've been taking care of him.
I have two more inches on hubby's vest to do and then the backs done. I intend to finish that today and probably devote some serious time to the baby blanket for the neighbor. And I have to find some quick hat patterns to work on at work for her as well.
Th garden is finally ready for plants. We put the manure in it yesterday and then it rained, quite hard, later in the afternoon so tomorrow the plants can go in. I went yesterday and bought some broccoli, cauliflour, green beans, and cherry tomato plants. I have seeds for carrots and radishes. The plan is to get them all in tomorrow afternoon. Sure hope it does't rain, lol.
I'm still working on all the laundry that's accumulated. I'm going to finish the jeans today and then that's it. I spent most of yesterday doing the colors and some jeans. Tomorrow will be the towels, whites and sheets. I've been changing the sheets on our bed every morning. Hubby has been going to bed with his poison ivy covered up, but by morning, his arms are unwrapped and there are spots on the sheets where it's touched his body, so I've been changing them. I so don't want this. Just the thought of this makes me itch like crazy anyway and I know for sure if I get this I'm on my own. He won't take care of me like I've been taking care of him.
I have two more inches on hubby's vest to do and then the backs done. I intend to finish that today and probably devote some serious time to the baby blanket for the neighbor. And I have to find some quick hat patterns to work on at work for her as well.
Th garden is finally ready for plants. We put the manure in it yesterday and then it rained, quite hard, later in the afternoon so tomorrow the plants can go in. I went yesterday and bought some broccoli, cauliflour, green beans, and cherry tomato plants. I have seeds for carrots and radishes. The plan is to get them all in tomorrow afternoon. Sure hope it does't rain, lol.
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