The time has come..............

For the weeds in the garden to go!

Hubby weeding close to the fence.Stalled the thing out the weeds were so thick!

Hubby and his beloved weed wacker,lol. This was taken after the job was done.

Attacking the garden.

See how high those weeds were?

Hubby surveying the situation first.



Yesterday I had asked hubby if he had been in the garden lately. He said no. I told him to have at it in the garden, since it's almost September, and the weeds have taken over EVERYTHING! First thing this morning, hubby went on the attack, lol!

See how much nicer it looks now. All of that was weeds. He uncovered 2 okra plants growing amongst the weeds. He's weeding around the zucchini plants. Think he should have done that earlier????

My poor achin back

No church today. Woke up with a back ache. No way I can sit comfortably and quiet in a pew if I can't sit in a chair in my house comfortably. I do think it's time to turn the mattress since hubby has been waking with a back ache to.


Got all my tomatoes taken care of yesterday. Went to lay down and it went all down hill from there. Just started feeling bad. I know I only got about 5 hours of sleep the night before, but I felt fine when I got up. My stomach was upset and I was tired and ache all over. I went to bed around 9 pm. I thought maybe a warm shower would help and some food. Had soup and grilled cheese. Didn't help, so went to bed. Got up around 9:30 this morning. I feel better, just my back hurts so. I much prefer a back ache to a upset stomach. Think I'm just going to laze around today and have hubby put the oil on my back when he gets up.


It' been really nice temp wise here lately. Cool nights and comfortable days. The youngest has been working his way through the house rearranging the rooms. He started in his bedroom, then him and his brother did the sun room. I asked him to do that since the roof is now fixed. Then he rearranged my stuff on the counter tops in the kitchen and Friday he worked on the living room. Today he wants to attack the small bedroom with the computer and my sewing machine. Have at it child, lol! He knows I'll never get around to it.

I'm being kicked out. See if I can find someplace to sit where my back doesn't hurt so.

Off to a good start

Today has gotten off to a good start. I'm right on track, for a change, lol!

Yesterday for work, I put on a pair of jeans that really were big on me. They kept sliding down to my hips. Checked the size and they are the bigger size I have. The bigger size I was slowly creeping into. It's really a shame because I love the brand these jeans are, but.................. Anyway, last night I was digging through the back of my closet and I pulled out a dark pair of jeans I haven't seen in a while and put them out to wear today. They are the size I'm wearing now, but you know how the same size can be cut bigger or smaller? These were in the smaller cut size. Well, put them on and they fit! I do know why they are in the back of the closet though, to short in the leg. They are the jeans I will wear if wearing boots in the winter. So back they went. But the fact that they fit made me dig deeper, through all those smaller cut jeans. Granted a few still don't fit, but quite a few do. Some were the next size down, but cut bigger. Some of those fit to. So, I'm a happy camper that the weight is slowly coming off. No, I didn't hop on the scale because I know that evil thing will only bust my bubble by saying I probably only lost one ounce. Why put myself through that? The scale is buried under all those jeans, where it will stay. For now.

My eating has changed. My mentality about eating has changed. I used to think you had to have meat, starch and a veggie for dinner. And being a single mom for years, pasta is cheap if you buy it at the dollar store. Now that I've been yo-yoing for a while now, I finally realize that there are no set rules to eat by. They boys are older now to and sometimes I'm the only one here for dinner. I can cook what I feel like eating. That and the loss of appetite some days along with the fact that I think I want something, I make it and it just has no taste or doesn't really taste as good as I remember it. I've added more fruit and veggies. But not a lot of salads because I can't always chew properly and honestly, I'm tired of the rabbit food. There are days when I find myself craving something I can actually chew and taste, but I have only been eating until that gnawing, empty feeling goes away in my stomach. Being so busy after work has made dinner later, bad thing, I know, but I don't eat much after. The occasional binge, but not like before. I usually pack something light for lunch at work, not a sandwich. Not a real big sandwich fan anyway. Sometimes a half isn't enough, but a whole one is to much. Go figure. I'm just going to keep doing this because it's working, without actually feeling deprived. And I'm going to avoid the scale!!

Last night had such a time sleeping. Wasn't sleepy. Went to bed around 1:30 am. Unusual for me, tried staying up for hubby, but the closer it came to 2 am, the more I wanted to just lay down. Up and out the door by 9 am this morning. UGH!! Since I was out I picked up the few things I need. And avoided the usual supermarket crowd for today by getting there early. All my running is done for today. Tomorrow is church and then home again. I'm feeling settled at home. Have some things I want to make. It's a rainy, and really cool day, only in the lower 50's so it's a good stay at home day.

Longggggggg day

This has been such a long day, I'm glad it's almost over. My lady didn't want to much done today because she's just wiped out. I did try to get some things accomplished for her to carry her over for the weekend. Her daughter left on Monday so this weekend will be the first weekend she's been totally alone since her husband passed. I'm wondering how she's going to make out.


I decided, after work to do the shopping that needed to be done. I did go home to drop my stuff off and get a child, pay the bills and get them in the mail, then off into town again. We walked in the door about 7:30 tonight, after leaving around 4 pm. But, got the food shopping done, errands done, dropped my time sheet off, and went looking for pillows and a small table for the living room. No luck with the table or pillows. Saw a lot of wicker furniture. I've always wanted wicker furniture for the sun room. Now I see it and don't have room for it, lol. Did get 2 new purses while I was out. Like I need another purse! One was really cute and small for church. It's woven and has a blue with white polka dot bow in the front. The other one is leather. It's small to and has a rose design on it. Good for work and good for year round use.


Yesterday I had to run to the post office in the town I work in. Now, I'm not very familiar with this town, or rather city. I usually avoid places with one way streets. I knew at some point the post office would be on my list of places to go, so I looked up the directions online. Sounds silly, but my lady is clueless when it comes to directions. All that stuff her husband handled. I'm thinking since it's a post office it would have off street parking. Wrong! And, it's on a one way street. Fortunately, a friend of mine told me the names of the three main streets in that city that all connect to the road I actually live on. Miles away, though. So, if I lose one I can always pick up another to connect back to where I need to be. It really wasn't that hard since I was paying attention to street signs, and those main roads aren't one ways. It's those little streets off the main streets that are such buggers! On the way back I had to stop for the train. I was actually wondering if the tracks were still used. At the end of my lady's street are train tracks that you actually have to drive on to go around the block. I didn't think the tracks were used because they look really close to the sidewalk, but I took a good look and they go right through the center of the city. Really cool to watch a train go right through the city.


Tomorrow I plan on using the tomatoes we got out of the garden. Making stewed tomatoes and salsa. Hubby's and ours. Then the rest of the weekend I have to work on class. Finished the study guide yesterday. Boy, was this chapter one of the longest and hardest yet! Glad I'm almost done with it!

The temps have cooled down quite a bit. In the 50's at night and 70's during the day. My kind of weather! I can only hope it stays this way. Our county fair starts on Wednesday and ends on Labor day. I've been thinking about going on labor day, since I took the day off. That's the only day they are having the rodeo. I'd love to see one again and the boys, I hope, would enjoy it. Gonna ask hubby if he can take some time off to go with us to. If for some reason it decides to get nasty hot and humid again, we won't be going.

The kids start school the day after labor day this year. Can't wait! This month just seems like it's never going to end!

Unsettled morning

This morning is one of those mornings where nothing suits me. Clothes, hair, etc. I've changed I don't know how many times, hate the do this morning, and breakfast is boring, lol. Hope work gets exciting, but probably not.


Left early yesterday to do the TBI training. TBI stands for traumatic brain injury. You can get anyone from severe to mild. Whats been happening in this state is the places that were devoted to specifically TBI are closing down. That leaves these people with few options. The healthcare agencies are picking up these people because we do handle these types of cases, just not on a regular basis. My very first case with the agency was a TBI case, but the patient was severe. This training is for the patients who basically have to relearn basic living skills all over again and can function pretty much on their own in time.

I found the training really interesting. Sounds like the kind of change of pace I'm needing right now. I really don't know what's going to happen with the lady I'm taking care of now. She's talking about different options for herself. I kind of figured this would happen so we'll see just how long this lasts for me. I don't fit any of the options she's been thinking about.


I left my lady to go do this training early. Get to the office and the woman who was doing the training had called and said she would be a hour late. Ok. Really am stuck in town because by the time I got home I would have to turn around and come back anyway. Why waste the gas. So I walk around in some stores and come back an hour later. She's still not there. Sit around in the office for 30 minutes before she finally comes in. Training was scheduled for 1-3. How are you going to do all this in 30 minutes?? By the time we got done is was almost 4pm. She did really breeze through it and skipped a lot of things. I left feeling like we really didn't get the proper training because she was late. But, its done and I was really anxious to get out of there. After 3 pm it seemed like every ones cells started going off, including the trainers, lol.


Well, need to figure out what I might want for lunch and then I'm off. Oh joy!

Feeling out of it

Today's one of those cloudy days that just makes you want to drag your feet all day. The only thing I wanted to do today was go to church, which we did. The ceiling fans were on which made it quite comfortable, I thought. It's in the upper 70's but the humidity is in the 60's so it really doesn't feel as nice as it could outside. I've kept the air on so the humidity doesn't get into my house and make us and everything feel stickie.

Tomorrow I have to be at work an hour earlier, but I get to leave 2 hours earlier than normal because of having TBI training at the office. I had seen an ad in the paper for it way back at the end of June and said something about it. They were just taking applications at that time and told me they would let me know when they had enough people to make a class. Don't know how big the class will be, probably not to large because they don't have a lot of room at the office for that kind of thing. I really didn't think anyone would let me know about it because they just kind of blew me off . I told them I was interested, but nobody wrote anything down so............. Well, Friday, before work I get a call about the class being Monday afternoon. Ok, so you remembered. Now, if they think I'm leaving my current case, they're thinking wrong. Not happening, at least not yet.


Church was really good this morning, still in the book of Daniel. Today he talked about one of Daniel's dreams. Lots of info and lots of passages to look up later. It's one of those passages where I have to go back and really reread everything. Hubby went with us this morning. I felt bad for him because I know he was tired. He was the one fidgeting instead of me, lol. He came home and took about an hour and a half nap before he left for work. I'm hoping he will close a little earlier tonight since it's usually slow anyway.


Spent almost all day yesterday out doing the shopping. So, so tired when I got home last night! The oldest birthday is tomorrow. I just can't believe the kid will be 19 tomorrow! What do you get a 19 year old anyway???? Had the youngest do some questioning and the oldest wanted to do an upgrade on my old computer. Why, it's my backup. They I find out he wanted to upgrade it so it would be faster to play games on! gggrrrrrrr The other things he wanted was a stereo that plays cd's and an ipod. I did look at them, but the only one that was compatible with the ipod touch, wasn't in stock. That was at walmart. We looked at Radio Shack, but none of theirs were compatible with the ipod touch, including the one that advertised it was! I know because I had my ipod in my purse and tried it. Didn't fit. There were others there, but way out of my price range, so since the kid hasn't done anything with his last check, I'm going to cash it for him and let him go buy the kind of stereo he wants. I figure this way when he moves out he can take that with him too. He'll have a bed, weight bench and a stereo, lol.


While I was out yesterday I figured I would get everything done, that way I could spend today home. Glad I did because I'm so not in the mood to go anywhere today. The youngest got paid yesterday, so I told him I would take him shopping for shoes and clothes for school. He always wants to go to Peebles for shoes. Mainly the vans. Well, it's ok if they are having a sale and you get the second pair, but rather expensive if not. Since hubby's been in there so much, I've actually taken a good look at the place and I've noticed, if you catch a sale and are careful about what you buy, you can do really well. I told the youngest to shop the clearance racks to get as much for his money as possible. Or, since he's picky about the kind of jeans he will wear, to make sure the sale is 40 to 50% off. I got a pair of denim capris and jeans, both Levis, for $15.00 yesterday. One pair was clearances at $12.00 and the other 15.00, and add in the other discounts, I think I did really well!


Been waiting for my Avon order and now I find out I have to wait even longer because something was damaged when it came in. She won't give me part of the order if she can have the replacement during the week. So I have to wait until probably Wednesday for it. Since I'm working more I can afford more from Avon, so I was really looking forward to this order. Oh well, have to wait just a little longer! I did give her the order for the next book. Ordered some "fun" stuff from that book to, lol.

Well, dryers done and I want to finish my study guide for this next chapter that I started yesterday. I finally got the reading done on Friday and started the guide. This one is 7 pages long. Normally the study guides are only 2 sometimes 3 pages long. But, get that finished today and I can work on listening to the class during the week. I have a feeling this class is about 2 1/2 to 3 hours long. I know I don't have the time to do that in one sitting!

Looking forward to the weekend

Every time I think my weekend is going to be relaxing and peaceful, it isn't! So I'm going to try and get that thought out of my head!


Still warm and humid here, supposed to get some relief by the weekend. Probably so with "Bill" coming up the coast. Have to say, we do need the rain. July was a very wet month, but not so much for August so far. The oldest birthday is on Monday. Haven't gotten anything for him and really don't know what to get the kid. All he wants is games and more games. All the kid does when he's not working is play games, all day and into the wee hours of the morning. Then he can't get up. I'm just not going to encourage that. He has classes in the afternoon this year, which means he can sleep late in the morning. Or so he thinks! I've already told him he's getting a list of chores to do before he goes to class.


I'm stranded at home tonight, so no knitting. Again! I have been working on my top a lot lately though. I'm almost through this long, long chapter for class. Decided to break it down into smaller pieces and work slowly through this chapter since the final exam is made up of this chapter and the last chapter. Have to pay attention!! Hubby switched vehicles with me tonight. I have the pick up. The pick up with the problems, lol. About 2 weeks ago the headlight blew so he wasn't driving it at night. They had the bulb replaced, but the mechanic was supposed to drain all the water that is sitting in the lens out and didn't. Hubby says it makes it hard to see if the light is on and he seems to think that is what made the bulb go in the first place. And, the check engine light is on and the truck runs funny after you hit 50. Feels like the engine is shaking. Ugh. Since hubby only drives the truck occasionally, and it really is more the fools, hubby wants to wait until the fool comes back, maybe this weekend, to have the truck fixed. He wants to pretend he knows nothing about the truck acting funny and the light being on because he doesn't want to fix it, lol. I say good for hubby because hubby is always paying for things for the fool. Maybe he's starting to realize just how much he's being used by his family. Anyway, hubby wasn't driving it home at night and just staying at the station. I much prefer he stay put instead of risking breaking down on the way home with the truck. Problem is, neither one of us sleeps well at night. I haven't been able to relax at night with him not there and he hasn't gotten much sleep either. I think I was in the station like 3 times last night. Each time I was there I teased the crap out of the man, and then walked out, lol. He looked so tired, I told him he had to come home just to get some decent sleep. Well, he made it home last night. That man snored seemed like nonstop, all night. He was snoring when my alarm went off this morning! I was seriously rethinking wanting him home, lol. He kept me awake a little, but I managed to get some decent sleep. There's something wrong with me when I need a snoring husband next to me to sleep well, lol!