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May 31 Nice quiet evening...Well Emma and I are on our own for the evening. We decided to have a picnic for dinner! I made grilled cheese sandwiches while she heated up leftover veggies and put a tablecloth on the picnic table outside. We took our plates out there and had a nice relaxing meal. No TV, no phones, no pets, no nothing. Just us. And the cars going by  . All in all it was a nice time.My azalea plantThere are plant nuts in this world. I am not one. There are people who make plants thrive. I am definitely not one! But, this year after 8 years of very little if any flowers, my azalea was in full bloom! I was so excited I took a picture! May 30 Aids in AfricaBefore I start ranting, let me clarify something: Aids is a horrible disease and I would like a cure to exist. However, I completely disagree with the US spending $30 BILLION to fight Aids in Africa! Think about how much that amount of money could do here in our own country. We have so much homelessness, poverty, hunger, lack of health care, underfunded schools that the money could drastically improve! IF these problems were taken care of here first, and there was still money left over, I'd be all for sending it to Africa to help fight Aids. But those problems are not taken care of. As long as we have children going to bed hungry, sleeping on the streets, and people dying because they lack basic health care IN THIS COUNTRY, we should be using our money IN THIS COUNTRY. May 28 Girl Scout drama...Tomorrow night is the bridging ceremony for Scouts. Emma and one other girl are bridging to Juniors. Emma is so excited! For some reason there seems to be a bit of drama going on. Three mothers have pulled their girls out of the troop; I was told it was because "poor girls" have been allowed to join. Come on! If that is true, then I agree with who told me that - we don't need them. I spent time with all three moms and thought they were all very nice ladies and was surprised to hear this. Also there is some financial drama going on, apparently. I get the impression that one of the moms is trying to stir up trouble for the leader. I don't know why some of these moms don't like her! I think she is very nice, and doing the best she can in a very difficult job. I know I could never handle being a troop leader! These girls have done so much this year. I mean, Emma's only been part of this troop since February, and has already earned 23 try-its! That is incredible!! And she's been able to go to several different events. Not many troops are this active. I just wish everyone would stop with the drama. Scouting is about the girls, doing things for them. The rest is just "stuff." HmmmI love it when my husband and I have days off together. I really do! But - I haven't gotten to touch the TV remote all day! Did some more yardwork today - cleared out lots of small trees from our backyard bank, along the fence. Also found that our neighbors on that side see fit to throw empty drink bottles and spray can lids off their deck into our yard. How rude! I found an ONION last week rotting in our yard on that side! Ew!! Emma finally came home. Sunburned. Poor kid. She also has a sore throat and headache. I think it's from not getting so much rest. Or enough veggies and healthy stuff. That girl's had more soda to drink this weekend than I let her have in 2 months! At least she wasn't too late getting to bed. Even though she's not in school any more she still has to get up at the usual time to go to the babysitters since we are both working (at least I am for 2 weeks). Got in lots of cuddle time with her. I really needed that. Yay!I've lost ten pounds!!!!!! Mr Ashley Judd??Dario Franchetti is famous. He is one of the few race car drivers I've heard of. So that must mean he's VERY famous, since I don't follow racing. At all. But, what do the headlines say when he wins a race? "Ashley Judd's Husband Wins Indy 500" Poor guy.... Happy Memorial Day!We are enjoying the long weekend. Friday was the end of school for the summer, and Emma had a friend come over to play. She went with us to my parents' house Saturday, and both girls spent the night there. Then Sunday after I picked them up to go home, they both ended up spending the night at the friend's house. Now Emma just called asking if she could stay ANOTHER night! We said no, though... we want to spend SOME time with our little girl before going back to work tomorrow! Of course she got mad and argue-y about it. The girls have spent four days together and will have the whole summer to play and swim. By the way, Emma wore MY shoes to church Sunday. And they fit her. May 20 I'm boredSo here are some totally random things that make me laugh today. Enjoy! From "Overheard in New York": Girl: We vegetarians love the environment. Carnivores are sick freaks. Male passerby: How can vegetarians love the environment? You keep eating all the plants! Dude: So I just wrote, 'John Locke was a great guy.' Chick: That's all you wrote? How many points did you get? Dude: He gave me eight out of ten! He must have felt sorry for me. Chick: Wow. I hope the professors at my school are that easy. Mother: Oh my god, close the goddamn window! Close it! Kid: No! I'm hot! Mother: I swear. Oh my god, close the window! Kid: Nooo! Mother, moving to adjacent seat: You know what? You [points to laughing stranger] -- she's your new mommy. Listen to her. New mommy: Boy, close that window. Oh my god, close that window! Okay, it may be wrong, but I love laughing at stupid people when I am bored! There was another that made me laugh out loud, but since it had bad language and I don't want to scare off anyone who might possible read this one day (hopefully) I didn't copy it as well. The brave of you - take a look. It is the one at the phone booth at a train station. Very funny. May 19 What was I so afraid of??Ok, I'm the first to admit that I am not too crazy about kids in general. Don't get me wrong, I love my daughter with all my heart, and nothing will ever change that. And one-on-one, kids are fine. But, get a few together, and I run for the hills. I just can't handle it! All the constant chattering, the whining, the picking and bickering - it all makes me want to scream. Anyway, last month Emma asked if she could have a friend sleep over after her birthday party, and even cleaned her room for it. We agreed, and her friend came over. Everything was fine! They were so good, and so quiet, and no arguing or fighting, no whining... just had fun together. Even her room was still clean the next day! So this afternoon, when Emma called from her friend's house asking if her friend could spend the night tonight, we had no problem with it at all. I am glad Emma has a friend that she can spend so much time with and we don't have to worry about it. Now a sleepover with several girls - I don't think I'm quite ready for that yet... May 17 Thursday rant...Am I the only person in this country who hates Napoleon Dynamite? I thought it was such a boring movie. It put me to sleep! And that does not happen very often. I mean, I even sat through Gigli! And Jersey Girl!! But Napoleon Dynamite was such a stupid movie to me. But it is number 12 on Bravo's top 100 funny movies list. And why is it so hard to find a job????? I mean, besides the fact I am trying to change careers, do not yet have my Bachelor's degree, and don't have "3-5 years experience" in whatever job I am applying to? Doesn't eight years of working, 11 years of college, and 9 years of raising a family and managing a household along with a full-time job and classes count for something?? If I was a nurse or an engineer it would be much easier, but bodily fluids make me throw up, I don't like touching strangers, and don't get math. So those two jobs are out. I cannot bear to go back to evenings and weekends; I just cannot do that to my family. But, if nothing else comes in soon, I may have to. I'm looking every day and applying to several jobs every day, but so far nothing has come of it. GRRR! On a positive note, though, I've lost two more pounds! I am down eight so far since the end of April when I joined SparkPeople. Yay!!!!  May 11 I hurt my husband! :(I feel so bad! Night before last, I noticed the bathtub was looking a bit icky. So I sprayed it with cleaner, and waited a minute to wipe it out to let the cleaner work. Also he was waiting for me to help him with something. It took longer to find what we were looking for than I had thought, and since it was already after 11 pm when I sprayed the cleaner and I was exhausted, I totally forgot about the cleaner until later the next morning when Emma was brushing her teeth and I saw the sponge on the sink. Turns out my husband slipped on it while getting in the shower earlier that morning and hurt his knee. It was swollen and puffy and painful. I feel soooooooo horrible about it. Then, after several nights of not being able to sleep, last night I was finally super tired and ready for bed. So what do I do? I have not just one but two glasses of tea before bed. I have had only one small glass of Coke in three days - what was I thinking?? So once again I couldn't sleep. I don't know why this is going on - I am tired and ready for bed, but as soon as I get in bed it's like a switch and I'm wide awake again. I have no idea why, unless it has something to do with the issue Ive been dealing with. I have no idea. May 09 SparkPeople Get a Free Online DietThis is what I've been using to lose weight. I LOVE this site! So far I am on track at 2 lbs/week and should reach my goal by late August of this year. I can't wait!! SparkPeople makes everything so easy, I enter the food I eat and the exercise or activity I do each day and it calculates for me the calories consumed and burned. I could never keep up with all that myself.Anyway, off my commercial mode... Check it out though! May 07 GRRROkay the blahs are back. I hate this feeling! I cannot make myself do anything and it is HORRIBLE! I'm having a hard time dealing with some feelings from an unpleasant event (that is not fodder for public discussion, sorry....), and also frustration from job-searching. I had to leave my last job - I mean, who can afford to lose money by going to work every day? Certainly not me! But who knew it would be so hard to find something else? I could always go back to retail, but I HATE the evening and weekend schedule. The past couple months I have been able to do so many things with my family that were out of the question before - like Girl Scout Camp, the Mother-daughter tea, and others. I've also gotten to spend more time with my parents and grandmother that I wouldn't normally get to do. But, we need the second income. So the search is on - and I'm finding that either I am not qualified or way overqualified. GGRRRRR!!! On the plus side, I've lost 4 lbs! On my way to my goal!! This is what is helping me tremendously: www.sparkpeople.com. Love it! |
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