Mindless Chatter - TGIF

Please give us a full report. Good luck and have fun! Please check out the dock jumping too, and if you can let me know who jumped big!

TGIF

DH is gone until 7/6 so I am on my own with the girls. Today was the first morning. Must organize my time better, I ran late. I need to make sure Maxine gets off the porch and does what she is supposed to, but alas all I could do was toss them out the door and get my lunch together. I guess Monday will be a 4:30 wake up time (sucks)

I heard on the news last night the the midwest (MO, KS etc) has 200% more rain so far this year than they did last year. It feels like that to us, I know we have not had it that bad, but it rains every evening when I get home from work. I can't even get the dogs out for a walk. It isn't even just rain it is these storms. They have HUGE trees uprooting because the ground is so saturated, and a big wind comes along and the ground just can't hold the tree. Yesterday a gas station canopy came down damaging cars at the pumps (and the pumps) the people were inside so no injuries but wow. It is supposed to rain today, tomorrow and Sunday too. Oh yeah!

No special plans for me this weekend except to go ride my horse.
 

 Good luck with the agility runs!

The doc gave me some insomnia pills to help me sleep better under all of this stress going on in my life. Woah, did they do the job. The thing is though, I didn't take it until midnight last night so I'm still a bit sleepy this morning.

It is so humid, I just can't do anything with my hair. Big ball of fuzz, it is.

I had a family get together at Frankenmuth last night. Good food - long drive. I did have to stop along the way and flex my muscles at some contractor though that had some safety issues going on. I told him I'd be back through in an hour and wanted to see things cleaned up. Sure enough, it was pretty perfect when I went back through! *flex*

I'm going to list my car for sale on Craigslist just to see if I get any bites. I am going to buy a new car asap. Too bad too because I love the way the rendezvous rides and it has so many bells and whistles that I love so much. Oh well.

I left all the dogs, including the puppy, out of their crates today. I'm kind of afraid! But they were locked up all day and all night last night so I just couldn't put them back in their crates this morning. I'm just hoping that my major furniture: kitchen table, end table and entertainment center, will not be chewed on when I get home. 

It's supposed to be payday but my direct deposit hasn't gone through. Hmfp. At least I have one of my faaaavorite clients tonight - a big brown pitty-mix who lives in the front of my subdivision. I love him! He's a good jogging partner too.

Have fun, Erin! How exciting.

I miss my Willa.   I hate work.

janobonano

I miss my Willa.   I hate work.

It must be so hard to be away from her all day.

I took today off and have a ton of stuff to get done. I wonder what it'd be like to have a day with absolutely no housework or errands to get done

It's still so smoky here that it looks like a foggy, winter day. I woke up in the middle of the night and my eyes were buring like crazy. I think I'll need to toss my contact lenses and start with some new ones today.

janobonano

I miss my Willa.   I hate work.

I hear you Jan!  Trust me it does get easier..never easy, just easier.  Is she in daycare or at someone's house?  Either way, the bigger they get the more they interact and play with others.  Riley is home with DH all day and part of me wishes she had another little one to play with (and no we aren't having another ).

I am still a nervous wreck about the job, but hopefully we will hear something this afternoon.  They are federal expressing a hair drug test to my house so I have to leave early to do that and send it back ASAP.

We are going to Grand Blanc, MI tonight to see my BIL and his fiance. We have never met her and I am trying not to go in with preconceived notions but it is hard.  BIL was cheating on his wife with this woman (and she with her husband with BIL).  She left her 6 month old baby to be with BIL.  I had become really good friends with now ex-SIL and basically had to terminate the relationship because ex-SIL was using me for informaiton, etc. It was very ugly.  Both BIL and new fiance were totally at fault and we haven't seen him since before I was pregnant.  Hopefully everything will go OK, but I just can shake how a mom can leave their 6 month old!!! 

Riley's birthday party is on Saturday.  It is soo late, but with the move and wallpaper disaster (that's finally done - will post pictures and start thread soon) and the deck being built (that was a mess too), the house is finally ready.  DH's family is not invited since they don't "do" birthdays .  I have to stop at the meat factory to pick up Italian sausages and have tons of cooking to do tomorrow morning.  Hopefully it won't rain but I doubt it!

mrstjohnson

Is she in daycare or at someone's house?  Either way, the bigger they get the more they interact and play with others.  Riley is home with DH all day and part of me wishes she had another little one to play with (and no we aren't having another ).

Right now, DH is laid off (again) for two weeks. So he's home with her all day. When he goes back on the 7th, he'll go back to working second shift. So he'll be with her in the morning, I'm going to have to take a 2 hour lunch, then my mom comes around 2:15/2:30 when she's done with work. Then I'll go back to work until 5. We're lucky, really, that I don't have to pass her off to a total stranger at a daycare. I'm on a "list" at a couple of local daycares, so that when she gets older I'll have her go there a couple of days per week so she can play with others.

Right now I'm playing a game called 'Find out who thought it would be a good idea to freeze beer in a glass bottle' due to the fact that I spent 30 minutes wiping slushey beer out of my freezer!! Why?!?!

 I feel funny today.  Light headed and kind of unfocused.  I thought I was hungry so I had a bowl of cereal.  Didn't help.  Maybe its the humidity.  It rained last night and now its heating up and the ground is steaming.  Wish I could take a nap.

mrstjohnson

Hopefully everything will go OK, but I just can shake how a mom can leave their 6 month old!!! 

Oh, that is creepy. I can't imagine how she managed to squash her guilt enough to do that. Yeah, I'd be having a tough time warming up to her too.

I went and bought groceries and now I don't feel like doing anything else, but the house isn't going to clean itself, so off I go.

cakana

It's still so smoky here that it looks like a foggy, winter day. I woke up in the middle of the night and my eyes were buring like crazy. I think I'll need to toss my contact lenses and start with some new ones today.

Isn't it crazy outside?  They said on the news last night that visibility in Sacramento was about 2 miles and it hasn't been that low since the last fog in February. We didn't even go out for a walk yesterday or today because it smells so bad outside. Fortunately, Max has strong couch potato tendencies.   I guess we should just be glad we don't have ashes falling out of the sky on us and covering our yards and cars like they did down in southern CA during the last big fire there.

Joyce

fuzzy_dogs_mom

Isn't it crazy outside?  They said on the news last night that visibility in Sacramento was about 2 miles and it hasn't been that low since the last fog in February. We didn't even go out for a walk yesterday or today because it smells so bad outside. Fortunately, Max has strong couch potato tendencies.   I guess we should just be glad we don't have ashes falling out of the sky on us and covering our yards and cars like they did down in southern CA during the last big fire there.

Joyce

I was listening to the news on the way home from work yesterday and they had a guy on from Air Quality Mgt he said that this "particulate matter" is dust that's kicked up by the fires. He also said said it was 2.5 to 10 times higher than the feds consider safe. Not sure what all that means, other than it's yucky air to breathe. I feel like I'm having allergy problems, but I'm sure it's the smoky air.

 Sigh I can't wait until next Friday when I actually get a day off. I volunteered to work this Saturday and Sunday since if I do that I get paid 18.00 a hour which is nice and we need the money. I'm so tired and sore wish we didn't need the money, but bills need paid plus the extra cash will be nice. Need to find another job I like my job the work is easy just I hate working 2nd shift you just can't do anything, but work and sleep I just want to be able to do more things then just that.

Bf lost his job last week they fired him for no reason so he is without a job I still have mine so at least I'm still bringing in money. Last night the truck window wouldn't go up and bf tried to pull it up last night in the process it ended up shattering. Then BF tells me last night his hand has been going numb for the past several months and he's starting to get concerned about it he never told me about it when it started.

Least the nice thing my ex boss taught me how to live like a poor person so at least I know how to put money back and  have money back for food. Yipppeeee

Just can anything else go wrong?  

I think I finally caught a break...I might be getting a second job, 10-15 hours a week.  So that makes 55 hours a week working, but this other job would sort of be on my own time.  It's doing web design, maintaining a web site, and doing the photography for the site.  This is exactly what I've been looking for to get more professional experience doing this (I already do a lot on the side, but most of it is for friends in exchange for favors) and I've been looking for a project or two so I can afford my puppy!  The only thing it hinges on is that I work in IT for a college and this is for the dinning services.  They are technically not part of the college, so I'd have to be on two payrolls.  I don't know how that works, we'll see...