It's a yucky day outside today - cold, rainy, windy. The leaves are pretty much gone from the trees at our house - the transition of leaves happens so quickly. We have two trees that I just love this time of year. They are along the highway and when they turn color, they become a very vibrant orange/pink. Sounds like a weird combination but they're awesome! Josie and I haven't had a chance yet to rake some up and jump in them - - hopefully on Saturday we'll be able to do that.
I have parent/teacher conference in a couple of weeks - I'm curious to hear the report from the teacher. Josie comes home each day with a report about how one kid hit another kid or how one kid threw something at someone else - but amazingly enough, she always follows up with "but mom, it wasn't me I promise." I just have to laugh - time will tell and truth be told, I will not be surprised to learn that she is involved in some (if not all) of these happenings :)
I had lunch with my sister-in-law on Monday. We've gotten to know each other a lot better in the last couple of years and I'm very thankful for that. She's a great person and would do anything for anyone simply because she knows it's the right thing to do.
Yesterday I had lunch with a friend of mine from Times Citizen newspaper (where I used to work). She still works there and hates every minute of it. I was only there about 6 months and the place was nuts - very poor management. It was all about who could kiss butt the best and who was willing to do the most for the boss with little or no recognition. A lot of office politics and sadly, it sounds like it's only getting worse instead of better. I never have understood the point of "politics" like that - no one ever got any real work done because everyone was running all over the building tattling on each other. I dealt with that enough through junior high and high school - why do it now too??
Today Josie has early out and as soon as she gets off the bus, we're heading to a dentist appointment. Poor kid has bad teeth like me - she had a bad cavity a couple weeks ago that the dentist took care of (her first experience with novicane - spelling?). Anyway, getting another one taken care of today and then she has dance. Tonight I think we're going to go to the high school volleyball game - our neighbor's (also our best friends) daughter plays and it's the first round of tournaments so Josie and I will be cheering them on.
The rest of the week should be pretty quiet. Saturday is Angel Food day so I'll be up bright and early at 4am (it's going to be COLD) and head to the pick up site in Cedar Falls with five other people. It's actually a pretty fun day - I really look forward to it each month.
Well I suppose that's enough random rambling for now. I should get a couple loads of laundry folded and put away before the bus gets into town. :)
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
Good day even though it rained
Josie didn't have school today and we spent a great day together. She seems to have really grown in the last couple weeks again. Just had to buy her a couple new pairs of jeans - - - AGAIN!
This afternoon we had hot chocolate with mini marshmallows, listened to Christmas music (her idea - she likes to listen to the 12 Days of Christmas....and yes, I've been singing it in my head for the last three hours now). Then we sat down at the table and made pumpkins out of construction paper and then made bats, cut them out and attached a string. The pumpkins are now in our front window and the bats are taped to the living room ceiling fan.
The funniest part of today - - she said to me, "Mom, it's really not fun here during the day." I asked her if she thought I was out and about all day doing fun stuff and she said yes! The stinker - I told her not to worry that I was at home most of the time folding the bazillionth load of laundry, loading the dishwasher for the gazillionth time and sweeping the floor forty-six times in an hour. (I swear I have gremlins living in my house that terrorize it all day long)
Now she's snuggled in bed sound asleep ready for school tomorrow. Thursday is her first "official" kindergarten field trip. She can hardly wait for Thursday - she already has the countdown. I'm sure I'll hear some awesome stories Thursday when she gets off the bus!
This afternoon we had hot chocolate with mini marshmallows, listened to Christmas music (her idea - she likes to listen to the 12 Days of Christmas....and yes, I've been singing it in my head for the last three hours now). Then we sat down at the table and made pumpkins out of construction paper and then made bats, cut them out and attached a string. The pumpkins are now in our front window and the bats are taped to the living room ceiling fan.
The funniest part of today - - she said to me, "Mom, it's really not fun here during the day." I asked her if she thought I was out and about all day doing fun stuff and she said yes! The stinker - I told her not to worry that I was at home most of the time folding the bazillionth load of laundry, loading the dishwasher for the gazillionth time and sweeping the floor forty-six times in an hour. (I swear I have gremlins living in my house that terrorize it all day long)
Now she's snuggled in bed sound asleep ready for school tomorrow. Thursday is her first "official" kindergarten field trip. She can hardly wait for Thursday - she already has the countdown. I'm sure I'll hear some awesome stories Thursday when she gets off the bus!
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Oh brothers...
Today is one of those days when I should have just smashed the alarm clock with a hammer, pulled the covers up over my head and stay in my nice warm, snuggly bed. Thankfully nothing major happened throughout the day but all the little things that didn't go right have me really wanting to head down to the Frozen Gator right now (new Sports Bar in Steamboat Rock - whoooohoooo - we're moving up in the world!)
After Josie left for school, I headed down to City Hall to start running copies of the monthly newsletter. Well apparently my brain was still in bed because I ran 250 copies of the front side of page one and neglected to put page two in the machine to run it front-back. Taking another 30 minutes of time, I got that straightened out. Then I fired up the older copy machine thinking I would be really smart and get twice as much done in half the time - yeah, right!
The old copier jammed like fifty times in the first 10 copies that it made. Things then smoothed out a bit and I was plugging away making copies and putting stamps on another mailing. Well, then the new copy machine decided to have an attitude - long story short, all the copies still aren't made, the old copy machine is apparently hooked up to the light switch in a different part of City Hall because if the office light isn't on, the copier won't work (if you shut the light off, like I did - the copier goes off and wipes out the number of copies that are left to be made thus forcing me to have to count a stack of 217 pages).
After running home, I checked the bank balance and low and behold, it's only Wednesday and there's like $8 in the account ---- what a happy day! I was supposed to go have lunch with my father-in-law today at the nursing home (it's his birthday today) but I was in such a crappy mood that I bailed out on that (very selfish, I know). I then went back to City Hall to continue making copies and then neither copier would do what I wanted it to do - one kept jamming and one kept shutting off.
Josie gets out early on Wednesday's so I had to hustle up there and pick her and a friend up - I thought Josie asked a lot of questions - this little boy had about three hundred questions in the two blocks from the school to his house. He's a cutie though - wouldn't have it any other way and it makes me feel better knowing Josie isn't the only one that asks a question, takes a breath and then asks another one (completely unrelated to the first) without waiting for your first answer.
When I get home, there's a funny "hot" smell in the house - ok, the washer smells like something has melted in it. I had Mitch's work clothes in there on the heavy duty stain cycle. Apparently my washer doesn't like that cycle because I thought the thing was going to burst into flames.
The lady bugs have decided to make it known that they have every intention of invading my home. The dog was on the deck catching and eating bees and then whining and yelping when they would sting him (stupid dog has been doing that all freakin' summer - you'd think he would learn; besides, who's ever heard of a bee-killing dog??)
My house is in utter chaos - I told Josie we're having a gargantuanly gigantic garage sale soon and she actually agreed that she has way too much stuff (I should have made her sign something so when the time comes, she doesn't go into meltdown mode).
Oh yes, when I went to the school tonight to pick Josie up from dance, I slammed my knee into the edge of the door and now it's all swollen and it hurts to have my pant leg rub against it.
I think that's about it for today - like I said, nothing major but good grief, all those little things add up in a big hurry and turns out to make a really bad day. Reminds me of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day!
Hopefully my day has brought laugther to yours - it probably will for me in a couple days :)
After Josie left for school, I headed down to City Hall to start running copies of the monthly newsletter. Well apparently my brain was still in bed because I ran 250 copies of the front side of page one and neglected to put page two in the machine to run it front-back. Taking another 30 minutes of time, I got that straightened out. Then I fired up the older copy machine thinking I would be really smart and get twice as much done in half the time - yeah, right!
The old copier jammed like fifty times in the first 10 copies that it made. Things then smoothed out a bit and I was plugging away making copies and putting stamps on another mailing. Well, then the new copy machine decided to have an attitude - long story short, all the copies still aren't made, the old copy machine is apparently hooked up to the light switch in a different part of City Hall because if the office light isn't on, the copier won't work (if you shut the light off, like I did - the copier goes off and wipes out the number of copies that are left to be made thus forcing me to have to count a stack of 217 pages).
After running home, I checked the bank balance and low and behold, it's only Wednesday and there's like $8 in the account ---- what a happy day! I was supposed to go have lunch with my father-in-law today at the nursing home (it's his birthday today) but I was in such a crappy mood that I bailed out on that (very selfish, I know). I then went back to City Hall to continue making copies and then neither copier would do what I wanted it to do - one kept jamming and one kept shutting off.
Josie gets out early on Wednesday's so I had to hustle up there and pick her and a friend up - I thought Josie asked a lot of questions - this little boy had about three hundred questions in the two blocks from the school to his house. He's a cutie though - wouldn't have it any other way and it makes me feel better knowing Josie isn't the only one that asks a question, takes a breath and then asks another one (completely unrelated to the first) without waiting for your first answer.
When I get home, there's a funny "hot" smell in the house - ok, the washer smells like something has melted in it. I had Mitch's work clothes in there on the heavy duty stain cycle. Apparently my washer doesn't like that cycle because I thought the thing was going to burst into flames.
The lady bugs have decided to make it known that they have every intention of invading my home. The dog was on the deck catching and eating bees and then whining and yelping when they would sting him (stupid dog has been doing that all freakin' summer - you'd think he would learn; besides, who's ever heard of a bee-killing dog??)
My house is in utter chaos - I told Josie we're having a gargantuanly gigantic garage sale soon and she actually agreed that she has way too much stuff (I should have made her sign something so when the time comes, she doesn't go into meltdown mode).
Oh yes, when I went to the school tonight to pick Josie up from dance, I slammed my knee into the edge of the door and now it's all swollen and it hurts to have my pant leg rub against it.
I think that's about it for today - like I said, nothing major but good grief, all those little things add up in a big hurry and turns out to make a really bad day. Reminds me of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day!
Hopefully my day has brought laugther to yours - it probably will for me in a couple days :)
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