I got stung by a bee at work today. *cries* Little bugger was in an empty box that I grabbed, and put my hand right over it. It stung me on the underside of the ring finger on my left hand. I'm not deathly allergic but dang, my hand is swelled up like a balloon! Even now, over 12 hours later, it's still grossly huge, and dull-achey! *cries more*
Also at work today, there was a ridiculous meeting...a demonstration on how to wash your hands properly. Uh, ooooookay. The daughter of a woman who works there is going to school to be a nurse, and one of her 'assignments' or 'requirements' or whatever, was to do a whole presentation about hand washing. Attendance for the meeting was voluntary. It didn't look like anyone stayed. LOL
Thursday of this week we will be having a meeting at work about upcoming hours/schedule changes. Two of the production lines will be going to a 24/7 work schedule. That means 12 hour days for whatever unlucky crew gets stuck there. And my job position is one involved. Screw that! I've already had a meeting with the plant manager, showing him that my job can still cover what needs to be done with the 12-hour people...without changing my hours. He *said* he would discuss it with the staff, but I highly doubt it happened.
The whole reason they are making this change is to avoid paying overtime. The two production lines in question have been working nearly every weekend for a LONG time now. It's costing the company too much money to keep paying the overtime/doubletime to keep running in this manner. To do the 12-hour switch, they will need four crews. Two day shift crews, two night shift crews. The schedule is something like two days on, two days off, two days on three days off. So the two day crews would be alternating days...follow that?
So, me being a relief person, would be assigned to one of the crews. We currently have three relief people, one on each shift. To go to a four crew/12 hour shift would require ADDING one more person. I showed our plant manager that this can be avoided by leaving our current three relief people on our current 8-hour days. They're saving paying one more person! I don't know why they're being so butt-headed about considering the option?!
But Thursday is the informational meeting to go over all of this crap. I will definately be at this one, and asking oodles of questions. *grr* On one hand, having that many days off would be wonderful. On the other hand, the weeks keep changing as the days shift...two on, two off, two on, three off, etc...and we have to work every other weekend. On the other-other hand, we're all doubting we'll even get these promised days off because they will find some way to need us on those days. We'll have a big check one week, a small check the next week. It's just all very...unpleasant...and NO ONE wants it. *sigh*
And that's where my mind has been lately, fretting about these changes.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Sept. 28
A new "Only you, Deb *rolling eyes* " quirky little song for you to enjoy. It's an older song, first released in 2003 and charted in 2004, by a Romanian boy-band called O-Zone. How did I ever come across it?? Casey loves watching videos on YouTube, and something he found had this song as background music. A little bit of research and he found what the song was. When he and Ty started listening to it a million times a day, I got used to it and then started really liking it. Watched the video last night and was laughing so hard...I was hooked.
Ignore the dorky stuff at the beginning and in the middle, and just listen to the song. And the dude's little dance at about 1:49 into it is so funny. I kept replaying that single part...LOL
Sooooo, give it a listen. You'll be hooked!
Ignore the dorky stuff at the beginning and in the middle, and just listen to the song. And the dude's little dance at about 1:49 into it is so funny. I kept replaying that single part...LOL
Sooooo, give it a listen. You'll be hooked!
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Sept. 25 - An American Crime
Finally watched the movie An American Crime tonight. It's about the Sylvia Likens story that I mentioned not long ago. I had finished reading the book House of Evil today, about the same thing, and had already heard about the movie from my movie watching co-worker...
I cried during the movie but for different reasons. I cried because the movie version barely touches on the horrors, which was probably better viewing-wise, but doesn't get the whole story out. I watched the movie wondering how I would have felt about it if I hadn't known everything beforehand. To me it seemed like it was rushed and didn't make much sense, probably because I knew the missing pieces and couldn't 'see' it for what was being presented. Hubby seemed quite shocked and disgusted by what happened just from the movie, so I guess it does its job.
But then I just sit and think of all that wasn't shown, or what was changed, and it just breaks my heart to think of what it must have been like for that poor girl. To me, the movie made it too nicey-nice.
Bleah, this is going to be on my mind for a while.
(Ellen Page as Sylvia Likens)
I cried during the movie but for different reasons. I cried because the movie version barely touches on the horrors, which was probably better viewing-wise, but doesn't get the whole story out. I watched the movie wondering how I would have felt about it if I hadn't known everything beforehand. To me it seemed like it was rushed and didn't make much sense, probably because I knew the missing pieces and couldn't 'see' it for what was being presented. Hubby seemed quite shocked and disgusted by what happened just from the movie, so I guess it does its job.
But then I just sit and think of all that wasn't shown, or what was changed, and it just breaks my heart to think of what it must have been like for that poor girl. To me, the movie made it too nicey-nice.
Bleah, this is going to be on my mind for a while.
(Ellen Page as Sylvia Likens)
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Sept. 24
Although the party was on Saturday, *today* is hubby's grandma's actual 100th birhtday. (Also hubby's dad's 71st birthday.)
One cute little thing is that she and her two sons have always had a 'band' and they like to play a tune or two at parties. So it didn't surprise me that they would play again at this party. Hubby's grandma plays the accordian and what did surprise me is how well she can still handle that thing. She picks it up and lugs it around like it's nothing. Unreal.
Anyway, here is one little clip of 'the band' playing at the party last weekend. Keep in mind....she is *100* years old!
One cute little thing is that she and her two sons have always had a 'band' and they like to play a tune or two at parties. So it didn't surprise me that they would play again at this party. Hubby's grandma plays the accordian and what did surprise me is how well she can still handle that thing. She picks it up and lugs it around like it's nothing. Unreal.
Anyway, here is one little clip of 'the band' playing at the party last weekend. Keep in mind....she is *100* years old!
Monday, September 22, 2008
Sept. 22 - We're back
Got back a little before 8pm last night. Heeeee!
We are all soooooo glad to be home.
We are all soooooo glad to be home.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Sept. 18 - Time for bye-bye
Well, that dreaded Minnesota trip is upon us. I was excited about it this morning for a while then went back to 'ugh...do I have to go?'
We leave bright and early tomorrow, meeting at hubby's parents' place by 7am. Hubby's brother will also meet us there. We're driving caravan style, following hubby's parents, instead of each going at our own time and pace. I think we're bypassing Minneapolis. And I think bypassing, and stops for gas and potty breaks, will put this trip around eight hours long.
It was kinda funny earlier this evening, while hubby and I were talking about it all, I said I'd like to try and go to the Mall of America but it won't break my heart if we don't get there. He gave me an odd look and said it would break his. LOL! I was thinking we'd maybe be able to go there on Sunday, on our way home. He's thinking we'll go Saturday while we have more time. Woohoo!
For those who don't know about this trip...hubby's grandma is celebrating her 100th birthday next week. This weekend is her big party. She lives in the town of Litchfield, Minnesota. It's west of Minneapolis. I've been there once, 18 years ago.
Sooooo, this is it until probably Monday. (Not sure how late on Sunday we'll be back.)
See ya!
We leave bright and early tomorrow, meeting at hubby's parents' place by 7am. Hubby's brother will also meet us there. We're driving caravan style, following hubby's parents, instead of each going at our own time and pace. I think we're bypassing Minneapolis. And I think bypassing, and stops for gas and potty breaks, will put this trip around eight hours long.
It was kinda funny earlier this evening, while hubby and I were talking about it all, I said I'd like to try and go to the Mall of America but it won't break my heart if we don't get there. He gave me an odd look and said it would break his. LOL! I was thinking we'd maybe be able to go there on Sunday, on our way home. He's thinking we'll go Saturday while we have more time. Woohoo!
For those who don't know about this trip...hubby's grandma is celebrating her 100th birthday next week. This weekend is her big party. She lives in the town of Litchfield, Minnesota. It's west of Minneapolis. I've been there once, 18 years ago.
Sooooo, this is it until probably Monday. (Not sure how late on Sunday we'll be back.)
See ya!
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Sept. 16 - Pan's Labyrinth
Finally watched this movie tonight. I've been wanting to see it for a long time but have always skipped it for one reason or another, often because it's subtitled. But I Netflixed it and finally...after sitting here for a week...watched it tonight.
I loved it.
The subtitles didn't bother me afterall. It's a more visual movie anyway, and the spoken parts were quick and easy enough that you don't lose anything in those precious moments.
There were some very graphic parts that I wish they would have done without, or at least toned down, but it's not a gorefest.
Once you get to the end and think back about the story leading up to it, it's so sad! I mean, you lose yourself in the magic and find it so believable. Then you get to the end and see what the captain sees, and you rethink it all and go 'Hey, wait...was it just...?'
That little girl was awesome.
Love this movie. Highly recommend it. :)
I loved it.
The subtitles didn't bother me afterall. It's a more visual movie anyway, and the spoken parts were quick and easy enough that you don't lose anything in those precious moments.
There were some very graphic parts that I wish they would have done without, or at least toned down, but it's not a gorefest.
Once you get to the end and think back about the story leading up to it, it's so sad! I mean, you lose yourself in the magic and find it so believable. Then you get to the end and see what the captain sees, and you rethink it all and go 'Hey, wait...was it just...?'
That little girl was awesome.
Love this movie. Highly recommend it. :)
Sept. 16
So yesterday was Ty's chiro day. As usual, we went down to Kmart afterwards and then over to McDonalds for an oh-so-delicious artery clogging supper. Anyway, at Kmart I wanted to wander thru the Halloween section. We were heading towards that corner of the store and what do I see?
The Christmas stuff is out already!! At first I was like "YESSSS!!" Then I had to stop and think, "Ok, it's only mid-SEPTEMBER!" And yes, I know this stuff comes out early but this seems even more ridiculously early than I've ever seen before?! And it was all so beautiful. I wanted to buy one of everything. LOL
Seriously though, Walmart barely has their Halloween stuff out and Kmart is already at Christmas!?
Unreal.
Only a couple more days till we head for Minnesota. Parts of it I'm excited about but for the most part I'll just be glad when it's over.
Just a quicky tonight. Better than nothing though, huh?
The Christmas stuff is out already!! At first I was like "YESSSS!!" Then I had to stop and think, "Ok, it's only mid-SEPTEMBER!" And yes, I know this stuff comes out early but this seems even more ridiculously early than I've ever seen before?! And it was all so beautiful. I wanted to buy one of everything. LOL
Seriously though, Walmart barely has their Halloween stuff out and Kmart is already at Christmas!?
Unreal.
Only a couple more days till we head for Minnesota. Parts of it I'm excited about but for the most part I'll just be glad when it's over.
Just a quicky tonight. Better than nothing though, huh?
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Sept. 14
Wow, I don't deserve to have a blog if this is how I'm going to treat it. :(
Friday...hmm. I worked. Hubby got fish from Players for supper. He was sick with a cold and went to bed early. I really can't remember anything noteworthy from Friday.
Saturday...I worked AGAIN. It was my regular job this time, and since I wouldn't be working Sunday (have to get eight hours in on Saturday then) I was able to leave at 1pm after I'd given everyone their last break. Came home and did dishes, cleaned up the house a wee bit cuz my sister was coming to visit again, and tried to read a new book my co-worker has lent me. (Lent? Loaned?) Couldn't get into it because other things were on my mind, wondered when my sister would be arriving. I knew she was at our brother's house visiting with baby Addie. I had just started making supper when I got a text from my sister saying our mom was also there, and they were just leaving to come to my house. Doh! What I was making for supper would not be enough for everyone. Not a big deal...my mom wasn't staying long and didn't eat, and Ty didn't really like what I made so he didn't eat much. hehe
Last weekend when my sister was here we watched a bunch of random things on TV and stayed up talking until 1am. This time we watched more random things and stayed up till 2am. LOL Hubby was up this time too, but was playing Warcraft. Ty was gone, spending the night at a friends. Casey had gone to be at 11pm, relatively early for him!
This week we watched Daddy, a TV-movie from 1987 that we loved at the time. I'd gotten it from Netflix. Patricia Arquette and Dermot Mulroney (sp?) as teenagers who become parents. I still think it's probably the best teen pregnancy movie out there.
We also watched Dirty Love. That was totally on a whim. It's been quite a while since I've watched that one. My sister had not seen it yet. I was worried that it would be one of those times where I'm laughing hysterically and she'd be forcing the occassional smile, but nope. I think she loved it...although I was laughing to the point of tears and no air while she was still able to draw breath. LOL And I'd forgotten about the "Yo big o' titty hangin' out!" part! LOL!!!
"Oh my GAHHHD!"
"Touch my baaaass!"
She said movie critic Roger Ebert was wrong, that this is *not* one of the 100 worst movies ever. LOL! And she borrowed it, took it back to the land of FIBs to show her hubby and friends.
I can't remember if we watched anything else???? We talked about Twilight, and about writing, and about clueless people and untrained dogs. We ate M&Ms. She had planned on leaving early this morning, but hadn't planned on being up till 2am, so figured she might end up leaving later in the morning. I decided to keep my early morning shopping routine, and thought I might even get back home before she was up. I only slept three hours last night (feeling it now as I type this!) but did indeed make it into town and back before she was up. So we had a bit more chitchat time this morning and watched U2 videos before she finally got on her way. So now I'm back to my usual Sunday routine of laundry and whatnot. Still, a good weekend. :)
It's my turn to go visit her. Heck, I'm YEARS overdue for that...but I think it's time I do it. After this Minnesota trip coming up, I'll have to see what I have left for vacation days and see if we can work something out. I want to eat that Rosati's (whatever) pizza and go to that mall we went to last time I was there. lol
The book I mentioned earlier is House of Evil, by John Dean. It's the true story of the abuse, torture, murder of 16 year old Sylvia Liken in 1965. A few months ago, CoWorker had come across a movie about this on DirecTV and was instantly sucked into it, and horrified. She was telling me about it at work the next day, and that night I looked it up on the internet and was surprised to see how 'popular' it is. I read some of the crime-library-type articles about it, and I too was horrified. Then a few days ago CoWorker saw the book while shopping and got it, read it immediately and passed it on to me.
For anyone who doesn't know the story, just Google 'Sylvia Liken' and you'll quickly learn about it. Her parents left her and her younger sister in the care of a woman they barely knew while they were working out of town. This woman and her children...and other neighborhood children...began abusing Sylvia, torturing her, neglecting her, until she evetually died. In the movie that came out last year, the girl who plays Juno (Ellen Page) plays Sylvia. Now I need to park my butt in a chair and get this book read, and then Netflix the movie. It's one of those morbid curiousity things.
*shudders*
Friday...hmm. I worked. Hubby got fish from Players for supper. He was sick with a cold and went to bed early. I really can't remember anything noteworthy from Friday.
Saturday...I worked AGAIN. It was my regular job this time, and since I wouldn't be working Sunday (have to get eight hours in on Saturday then) I was able to leave at 1pm after I'd given everyone their last break. Came home and did dishes, cleaned up the house a wee bit cuz my sister was coming to visit again, and tried to read a new book my co-worker has lent me. (Lent? Loaned?) Couldn't get into it because other things were on my mind, wondered when my sister would be arriving. I knew she was at our brother's house visiting with baby Addie. I had just started making supper when I got a text from my sister saying our mom was also there, and they were just leaving to come to my house. Doh! What I was making for supper would not be enough for everyone. Not a big deal...my mom wasn't staying long and didn't eat, and Ty didn't really like what I made so he didn't eat much. hehe
Last weekend when my sister was here we watched a bunch of random things on TV and stayed up talking until 1am. This time we watched more random things and stayed up till 2am. LOL Hubby was up this time too, but was playing Warcraft. Ty was gone, spending the night at a friends. Casey had gone to be at 11pm, relatively early for him!
This week we watched Daddy, a TV-movie from 1987 that we loved at the time. I'd gotten it from Netflix. Patricia Arquette and Dermot Mulroney (sp?) as teenagers who become parents. I still think it's probably the best teen pregnancy movie out there.
We also watched Dirty Love. That was totally on a whim. It's been quite a while since I've watched that one. My sister had not seen it yet. I was worried that it would be one of those times where I'm laughing hysterically and she'd be forcing the occassional smile, but nope. I think she loved it...although I was laughing to the point of tears and no air while she was still able to draw breath. LOL And I'd forgotten about the "Yo big o' titty hangin' out!" part! LOL!!!
"Oh my GAHHHD!"
"Touch my baaaass!"
She said movie critic Roger Ebert was wrong, that this is *not* one of the 100 worst movies ever. LOL! And she borrowed it, took it back to the land of FIBs to show her hubby and friends.
I can't remember if we watched anything else???? We talked about Twilight, and about writing, and about clueless people and untrained dogs. We ate M&Ms. She had planned on leaving early this morning, but hadn't planned on being up till 2am, so figured she might end up leaving later in the morning. I decided to keep my early morning shopping routine, and thought I might even get back home before she was up. I only slept three hours last night (feeling it now as I type this!) but did indeed make it into town and back before she was up. So we had a bit more chitchat time this morning and watched U2 videos before she finally got on her way. So now I'm back to my usual Sunday routine of laundry and whatnot. Still, a good weekend. :)
It's my turn to go visit her. Heck, I'm YEARS overdue for that...but I think it's time I do it. After this Minnesota trip coming up, I'll have to see what I have left for vacation days and see if we can work something out. I want to eat that Rosati's (whatever) pizza and go to that mall we went to last time I was there. lol
The book I mentioned earlier is House of Evil, by John Dean. It's the true story of the abuse, torture, murder of 16 year old Sylvia Liken in 1965. A few months ago, CoWorker had come across a movie about this on DirecTV and was instantly sucked into it, and horrified. She was telling me about it at work the next day, and that night I looked it up on the internet and was surprised to see how 'popular' it is. I read some of the crime-library-type articles about it, and I too was horrified. Then a few days ago CoWorker saw the book while shopping and got it, read it immediately and passed it on to me.
For anyone who doesn't know the story, just Google 'Sylvia Liken' and you'll quickly learn about it. Her parents left her and her younger sister in the care of a woman they barely knew while they were working out of town. This woman and her children...and other neighborhood children...began abusing Sylvia, torturing her, neglecting her, until she evetually died. In the movie that came out last year, the girl who plays Juno (Ellen Page) plays Sylvia. Now I need to park my butt in a chair and get this book read, and then Netflix the movie. It's one of those morbid curiousity things.
*shudders*
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Sept. 11
Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time we moved out into the boonies where cable TV was not available and the antenna on the roof barely pulled in local channels. We called Primestar and got all hooked up with them and life was grand. They had mounted the dish on a post in the ground near the south wall of our house. Later, Primestar became DirecTV and we were eventually given a new dish. This one was mounted on our roof and life was grand...except for the post left in the ground where the old dish had been.
The only downfall is that we could not get our local channels thru DirecTV. We still had to rely on the old antenna on the roof. Move ahead several years and we learn that soon our old antenna will be useless anyway because TV is going digital (or whatever). We learn thru my brother that local channels *are* available thru DirecTV. This must have changed sometime after we originally got it. We also learn that by getting our local channels thru them, we are now covered for when that digital change goober stuff happens. So I call DirecTV and ask about this, find we can indeed get the channels, and I request this change. No problem, I am told. The change is immediate after I do this and that here at the office, says the dude. There is a slight change in the cost and package but life is grand.
Only, we're not getting the local channels. I end up on the phone with tech support the next day, being bounced around from one tech to the next, and they're all talking about needing an upgrade and some fancy new dish. Why wasn't I told about this at the time? They don't know, apologize, and will send someone out. Dude shows up one of the early days when work on our house has just begun. The contractor suggests to DirecTVdude that he do a temporary dish installation down on the ground. So our new, upgraded dish was placed on a post in the ground, a short distance away from the house so it was out of the way of the roof and siding work. The old dish was left up on the roof, but was eventually taken down and thrown into a dumpster when the roof was redone.
Now we move ahead again and our home improvements are pretty much done. We can get DirecTV back out here to put the dish back up on the roof. I call and set up this appointment and the girl on the phone tells me there will be a $49.95 charge. I say waaaaaaait just a minute. Why is there a charge? It was a free upgrade, free installation. The dude new it was temporary and put a note in our file. There was no mention of a later fee to move it. She checks our file and says there is no note, "but this is what we can do...." and she explains that they can put the $49.95 charge on the bill, but then give us $10 off our bill for the next 6 months. Do the math, we're coming out $10 ahead. I still don't understand why there is a charge to begin with, but I tell her we'll take this deal.
So DirecTVdude shows up last night when it's already getting dark. Hubby asks if he will also be reattaching the little connector box thing to the house? (Contractor took it down when they did the siding, and left it.) The dude looks at it and says "We don't touch those." Wtf? Then who does??
Anyway, he mounts the dish on the roof, then has to come into the house to do something with our receiver. He discovers a tree in our yard is blocking the signal and he'll have to move the dish to a spot higher on the roof. (We never had a problem before....) By this time it is too dark for him to go back on the roof, and he doesn't have some extra piece he needs anyway. He says he'll be back tomorrow after his route, and will move the dish. He says it won't show up on the bill as two trips, that it will all be considered just the one sevice call. He asks what time I get home, says he'll see me then.
So the next day (today) I get home and find a note tucked into the door. DirecTVdude had time between jobs and stopped over and got the dish moved. He says we have a good signal now, and life should be grand. I go around back and look up on the roof. Yep, it's mounted higher just like he said. But the first mounting bracket/post is still attached to the lower spot. So now we have a post next to the house, a post out in the yard, and a post up on the corner of our roof. Nice.
And how do we fill the holes that his first installation made on our brand new roof? That's probably why he left it.
*grr*
The only downfall is that we could not get our local channels thru DirecTV. We still had to rely on the old antenna on the roof. Move ahead several years and we learn that soon our old antenna will be useless anyway because TV is going digital (or whatever). We learn thru my brother that local channels *are* available thru DirecTV. This must have changed sometime after we originally got it. We also learn that by getting our local channels thru them, we are now covered for when that digital change goober stuff happens. So I call DirecTV and ask about this, find we can indeed get the channels, and I request this change. No problem, I am told. The change is immediate after I do this and that here at the office, says the dude. There is a slight change in the cost and package but life is grand.
Only, we're not getting the local channels. I end up on the phone with tech support the next day, being bounced around from one tech to the next, and they're all talking about needing an upgrade and some fancy new dish. Why wasn't I told about this at the time? They don't know, apologize, and will send someone out. Dude shows up one of the early days when work on our house has just begun. The contractor suggests to DirecTVdude that he do a temporary dish installation down on the ground. So our new, upgraded dish was placed on a post in the ground, a short distance away from the house so it was out of the way of the roof and siding work. The old dish was left up on the roof, but was eventually taken down and thrown into a dumpster when the roof was redone.
Now we move ahead again and our home improvements are pretty much done. We can get DirecTV back out here to put the dish back up on the roof. I call and set up this appointment and the girl on the phone tells me there will be a $49.95 charge. I say waaaaaaait just a minute. Why is there a charge? It was a free upgrade, free installation. The dude new it was temporary and put a note in our file. There was no mention of a later fee to move it. She checks our file and says there is no note, "but this is what we can do...." and she explains that they can put the $49.95 charge on the bill, but then give us $10 off our bill for the next 6 months. Do the math, we're coming out $10 ahead. I still don't understand why there is a charge to begin with, but I tell her we'll take this deal.
So DirecTVdude shows up last night when it's already getting dark. Hubby asks if he will also be reattaching the little connector box thing to the house? (Contractor took it down when they did the siding, and left it.) The dude looks at it and says "We don't touch those." Wtf? Then who does??
Anyway, he mounts the dish on the roof, then has to come into the house to do something with our receiver. He discovers a tree in our yard is blocking the signal and he'll have to move the dish to a spot higher on the roof. (We never had a problem before....) By this time it is too dark for him to go back on the roof, and he doesn't have some extra piece he needs anyway. He says he'll be back tomorrow after his route, and will move the dish. He says it won't show up on the bill as two trips, that it will all be considered just the one sevice call. He asks what time I get home, says he'll see me then.
So the next day (today) I get home and find a note tucked into the door. DirecTVdude had time between jobs and stopped over and got the dish moved. He says we have a good signal now, and life should be grand. I go around back and look up on the roof. Yep, it's mounted higher just like he said. But the first mounting bracket/post is still attached to the lower spot. So now we have a post next to the house, a post out in the yard, and a post up on the corner of our roof. Nice.
And how do we fill the holes that his first installation made on our brand new roof? That's probably why he left it.
*grr*
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Sept. 9
Today would have been my dad's 85th birthday. He died in 1987. He's now been dead longer than I knew him alive. Wow.
My mother-in-law came over this afternoon. I had to scan some pics for her, put them on a cd. It's part of the birthday party for hubby's grandma next weekend, showing a slideshow of pics over the years. She'll be 100 years old on Sept. 24.
Once again, I just don't feel like blogging about the things that I was earlier totally gungho about. I don't know if it's because I'm tired by the time I get around to blogging? Because once I'm out of work and away from whatever is on my mind, it doesn't bother me enough anymore to mention it? Not sure. But I'm just really not in a blogging mood tonight.
My mother-in-law came over this afternoon. I had to scan some pics for her, put them on a cd. It's part of the birthday party for hubby's grandma next weekend, showing a slideshow of pics over the years. She'll be 100 years old on Sept. 24.
Once again, I just don't feel like blogging about the things that I was earlier totally gungho about. I don't know if it's because I'm tired by the time I get around to blogging? Because once I'm out of work and away from whatever is on my mind, it doesn't bother me enough anymore to mention it? Not sure. But I'm just really not in a blogging mood tonight.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Sept. 8
It's been a crazy last few days. I didn't even bother trying to post anything. But now I *think* I'm back to a normal routine so maybe my normal blog-mode mind will return.
Saturday, I worked all day. My sister was coming up from Illinois for a weekend visit. The original plan was that she'd be at my house by the time I got home from work and we'd go do a quick grocery shopping run. While I was still at work I was rapidly feeling that I did not want to go shopping...I was tired, I hate shopping in the afternoon when all the stupid-ugly people are out with their horrid children, and it would cut way into the already limited visiting time.
Towards the end of my shift I sent FIBsister a text, and changed plans. Instead of us going shopping, she was already in town and stopped at Rocky's. Woot! Two large pizzas, two orders of breaksticks, and we eliminated the need to go anywhere. We settled into an evening of watching a bizarre assortment of things on TV. The two episodes of Fawlty Towers were awesome, as always. Wish we would have time to watch all of them. The Young Ones, however, just isn't funny anymore. Hubby and I had not really liked the first episode we'd watched the night before. And then watching the next episode with my sister, we were all kinda cringing and wondering how we'd ever liked the show back in the day. I think my sister's comment was, "Wow...this show...really *isn't* funny, is it?" Ha. We gave up after about five minutes.
We also watched PeeWee's Big Adventure, which had been Netflixed. The movie is so hysterically corny, a definate classic! (Even though my boys won't be caught dead watching it, much less enjoying it.) The part my sister was waiting for was there... "Why? What's the significance? I. Don't. Know!" But when it got to *MY* part, with Jan Hooks telling us about corn/maize...the DVD skipped thru it!!
Noooooooo!!!
I did get to see Inez and her clay pot full of "paintandglaaaaaaze." But still! And the DVD sucked after that, so much skipping that huge chunks of the movie were lost. Big bummer.
We were going to watch The Wall, the TV-movie from the '80s. My sister had a brand new copy of it on DVD. In our nattering between viewing choices though, we were talking about 'neil' from the Young Ones, about him being at the Band Aid recording (Do They Know It's Christmas, from 1984) and we got sidetracked and watched my VHS copy of the Band Aid documentary. *THAT* was the most hysterical thing we watched all night!! The dudes from Status Quo, Phil Collins' reaction to 'neil,' sooo many things that are so classic to us. It was great.
And somehow from there we ended up watching the TV-movie Freedom. It was a crappy VHS version, one I'd recorded off TV millions of years ago. My sister freaked that I actually had it. I hadn't seen it in many years, so it was a given that we *had* to watch it now. Hubby went to bed at this point....lol....stupid chick flick. Not completely sure how my sister feels but I still love that movie. It needs to be released on DVD!!!
(For those who don't know, Freedom stars Mare Winningham as a teenager who wants to be emancipated from her divorced parents, to live on her own. She gets a job with a travelling carnival, and goes thru several emotional turmoils.)
After that we were up until 1am just talking about anything and everything. I kept saying I needed to get to bed but never seemed to get there. Oh well, it was cool to just hang out like that, and I wish we would have more time.
Sunday, I worked all day again. My sister left for home sometime after I'd already left for work. So I forced myself to go do my grocery shopping immediately after work instead of trying to put it off again. And yep, I still do hate shopping in the afternoon...especially on the weekend. Not only are all the annoying people swarming in droves as annoying people do, but the shelves are no longer stocked. Example...I needed bread. I usually buy the cheap, store brand. There was NONE. The biggest section of bread in the whole dang aisle and there was NO cheap bread. I had to buy highly overpriced *good* bread.
Well anyway, managed to survive late-day shopping and spent the drive home trying to figure out the best way to get everything done that needed to be done...in only a few hours. I walked into the house to find that my menfolk had done the dishes, cleaned the house, and started the laundry! *gasp* I couldn't believe it, could have cried. AND they wanted to watch some big wrestling pay-per-view event, so that meant I had my computer for a whole uninterupted evening! Yeah, I could have posted something last night but I used it for totally slacker purposes like playing UO.
I went to bed at a normal hour last night. I slept rather decently, considering the sleep troubles I've had lately. I even overslept this morning. Doh! Ty woke me up 40 minutes later than I normally get up, "Don't you have work today?"
After running a machine for the two days of work over the weekend, it was a much welcome step back into my normal job today. I have plenty of quiet time, time to think, and I had come up with a ton of things on my daily scribble paper that I wanted to blog about. As always, now that I'm writing I don't want to write about those things. *sigh*
Hubby is watching the Vikings game, first game of the season. Boys are occupied with their own things. Pizza just came out of the oven. And I am off to gather more seeds in UO.
Oh, my sister borrowed my copy of Twilight because she's been sucked in by curiousity but she seems to be taking way too long to start reading. *taps foot impatiently and glares towards Illinois*
Saturday, I worked all day. My sister was coming up from Illinois for a weekend visit. The original plan was that she'd be at my house by the time I got home from work and we'd go do a quick grocery shopping run. While I was still at work I was rapidly feeling that I did not want to go shopping...I was tired, I hate shopping in the afternoon when all the stupid-ugly people are out with their horrid children, and it would cut way into the already limited visiting time.
Towards the end of my shift I sent FIBsister a text, and changed plans. Instead of us going shopping, she was already in town and stopped at Rocky's. Woot! Two large pizzas, two orders of breaksticks, and we eliminated the need to go anywhere. We settled into an evening of watching a bizarre assortment of things on TV. The two episodes of Fawlty Towers were awesome, as always. Wish we would have time to watch all of them. The Young Ones, however, just isn't funny anymore. Hubby and I had not really liked the first episode we'd watched the night before. And then watching the next episode with my sister, we were all kinda cringing and wondering how we'd ever liked the show back in the day. I think my sister's comment was, "Wow...this show...really *isn't* funny, is it?" Ha. We gave up after about five minutes.
We also watched PeeWee's Big Adventure, which had been Netflixed. The movie is so hysterically corny, a definate classic! (Even though my boys won't be caught dead watching it, much less enjoying it.) The part my sister was waiting for was there... "Why? What's the significance? I. Don't. Know!" But when it got to *MY* part, with Jan Hooks telling us about corn/maize...the DVD skipped thru it!!
Noooooooo!!!
I did get to see Inez and her clay pot full of "paintandglaaaaaaze." But still! And the DVD sucked after that, so much skipping that huge chunks of the movie were lost. Big bummer.
We were going to watch The Wall, the TV-movie from the '80s. My sister had a brand new copy of it on DVD. In our nattering between viewing choices though, we were talking about 'neil' from the Young Ones, about him being at the Band Aid recording (Do They Know It's Christmas, from 1984) and we got sidetracked and watched my VHS copy of the Band Aid documentary. *THAT* was the most hysterical thing we watched all night!! The dudes from Status Quo, Phil Collins' reaction to 'neil,' sooo many things that are so classic to us. It was great.
And somehow from there we ended up watching the TV-movie Freedom. It was a crappy VHS version, one I'd recorded off TV millions of years ago. My sister freaked that I actually had it. I hadn't seen it in many years, so it was a given that we *had* to watch it now. Hubby went to bed at this point....lol....stupid chick flick. Not completely sure how my sister feels but I still love that movie. It needs to be released on DVD!!!
(For those who don't know, Freedom stars Mare Winningham as a teenager who wants to be emancipated from her divorced parents, to live on her own. She gets a job with a travelling carnival, and goes thru several emotional turmoils.)
After that we were up until 1am just talking about anything and everything. I kept saying I needed to get to bed but never seemed to get there. Oh well, it was cool to just hang out like that, and I wish we would have more time.
Sunday, I worked all day again. My sister left for home sometime after I'd already left for work. So I forced myself to go do my grocery shopping immediately after work instead of trying to put it off again. And yep, I still do hate shopping in the afternoon...especially on the weekend. Not only are all the annoying people swarming in droves as annoying people do, but the shelves are no longer stocked. Example...I needed bread. I usually buy the cheap, store brand. There was NONE. The biggest section of bread in the whole dang aisle and there was NO cheap bread. I had to buy highly overpriced *good* bread.
Well anyway, managed to survive late-day shopping and spent the drive home trying to figure out the best way to get everything done that needed to be done...in only a few hours. I walked into the house to find that my menfolk had done the dishes, cleaned the house, and started the laundry! *gasp* I couldn't believe it, could have cried. AND they wanted to watch some big wrestling pay-per-view event, so that meant I had my computer for a whole uninterupted evening! Yeah, I could have posted something last night but I used it for totally slacker purposes like playing UO.
I went to bed at a normal hour last night. I slept rather decently, considering the sleep troubles I've had lately. I even overslept this morning. Doh! Ty woke me up 40 minutes later than I normally get up, "Don't you have work today?"
After running a machine for the two days of work over the weekend, it was a much welcome step back into my normal job today. I have plenty of quiet time, time to think, and I had come up with a ton of things on my daily scribble paper that I wanted to blog about. As always, now that I'm writing I don't want to write about those things. *sigh*
Hubby is watching the Vikings game, first game of the season. Boys are occupied with their own things. Pizza just came out of the oven. And I am off to gather more seeds in UO.
Oh, my sister borrowed my copy of Twilight because she's been sucked in by curiousity but she seems to be taking way too long to start reading. *taps foot impatiently and glares towards Illinois*
Friday, September 5, 2008
Sept. 5
I've been neglectful again. Sorry, but the screwed up schedule this week has thrown me all out of whack.
So let's see, slept like crap Tuesday night and felt crappy all day Wednesday. Hubby got KFC for supper Wednesday evening so I wouldn't have to cook and could go to bed early. Feeling crappy, having to go to work at 3am, and worrying that I would have another sleepless night I went to bed at 6:30pm that night. Tossed and turned and only once dozed off...for only a couple minutes...and two hours later and I gave up and came back downstairs. Got a drink of water, sat on the couch and whined to hubby for a few minutes, then started to feel tired. Went back upstairs, fell asleep fairly quick, and managed three good hours before I woke up and did the toss-n-turn thing for a while till I had to get up before 3am work.
It was Thursday that I worked 3am-3pm. I was fine most of the day, but getting really tired towards the end and just wanted to take a nap. Once I got home though, I perked up enough that I thought I could make it till later, to a normal bedtime. Puttered around on the computer for a bit, watched one episode of The Young Ones (from Netflix), and that was enough for me. I was in bed shortly after 7pm. But it was a much much better night's sleep....woohoo. Not sure what caused all the sleep problems those couple nights but it seems to have passed now. *phew*
And that brings us to today, Friday. It doesn't seem like a Friday because of the holiday and then my vacation day, AND because I have to work right thru the weekend. Oh yeah, and we didn't get fish tonight either. There's still not really anything interesting to blog about...
Well, I do have some things I'd like to write about but at the moment I'm just trying to get this quickie post done so you don't all give up on me.
Hmm, and now that I think about it, I doubt I'll post tomorrow cuz my sister will be here hogging my time and forcing me to watch horrible British comedy and ghastly '80s TV-movies. So maybe Sunday I'll have a chance to post something worthwhile.
Maybe.
So let's see, slept like crap Tuesday night and felt crappy all day Wednesday. Hubby got KFC for supper Wednesday evening so I wouldn't have to cook and could go to bed early. Feeling crappy, having to go to work at 3am, and worrying that I would have another sleepless night I went to bed at 6:30pm that night. Tossed and turned and only once dozed off...for only a couple minutes...and two hours later and I gave up and came back downstairs. Got a drink of water, sat on the couch and whined to hubby for a few minutes, then started to feel tired. Went back upstairs, fell asleep fairly quick, and managed three good hours before I woke up and did the toss-n-turn thing for a while till I had to get up before 3am work.
It was Thursday that I worked 3am-3pm. I was fine most of the day, but getting really tired towards the end and just wanted to take a nap. Once I got home though, I perked up enough that I thought I could make it till later, to a normal bedtime. Puttered around on the computer for a bit, watched one episode of The Young Ones (from Netflix), and that was enough for me. I was in bed shortly after 7pm. But it was a much much better night's sleep....woohoo. Not sure what caused all the sleep problems those couple nights but it seems to have passed now. *phew*
And that brings us to today, Friday. It doesn't seem like a Friday because of the holiday and then my vacation day, AND because I have to work right thru the weekend. Oh yeah, and we didn't get fish tonight either. There's still not really anything interesting to blog about...
Well, I do have some things I'd like to write about but at the moment I'm just trying to get this quickie post done so you don't all give up on me.
Hmm, and now that I think about it, I doubt I'll post tomorrow cuz my sister will be here hogging my time and forcing me to watch horrible British comedy and ghastly '80s TV-movies. So maybe Sunday I'll have a chance to post something worthwhile.
Maybe.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Sept. 3
Back to work for me. Booo. Oh well, at least it was a lovely five day break. Unfortunately, I now have to go in at 3am tonight (tomorrow morning, technically) and I have to work all weekend. That's ok too because I knew my time was coming. I've been extremely lucky in avoiding the overtime lately. And, coming after a long weekend off makes it a little easier to handle. hehe
I feel like crap today though. Didn't sleep for diddly last night. Couldn't pinpoint any particular thing wrong, but just couldn't sleep...couldn't get comfortable, too hot, too cold, thirsty, felt like bugs crawling on me, anything and everything. If I did finally doze off it would only be for a few minutes and I'd jolt awake. When I got up this morning I almost felt like I wouldn't make it to work. I was super duper uber tired (can't imagine why?!) and felt dizzy and like my head was a buzzing chunk of cement. Sinus cooties? I don't know. Felt like crap all day, and still feel it. Going to take some Tylenol Sinus and go to be extra early and hope for the best.
GutterGuys were here today! Woohoo!! Don't know what time they got here but when I got home just after 3pm, they were just packing up their truck...they were already done. Can't wait till it rains and we can see how good they are. LOL
It's cool that they used white gutters up along the roofline, and matching tan down along the house. One small complaint is that they used the tan lower pieces along the front porch, but the front porch is white. Not a biggie. They also gave us these cool little clear plastic lock thingies on each downspout so when we flip the long end up while mowing lawn or whatever, the lock thingie catches the edge of the spout and keeps it held up. Our old ones always had to be propped with something or held by someone.
So that is the last of the actual contract work. Now we can contact the bank and go meet with them again about redoing our home loan...getting rid of this temporary account the project money has been coming out of. We're going to see how everything looks, toss new numbers around, and figure out if we want to throw our credit card balance into this mix and get it all taken care of in one big loan now. We want to keep making big payments and get it all paid off sooner, rather than comfortably small payments and pay forever. So, we'll see.
I never did write down my notes and thoughts about my random cds yesterday. I would still like to do that, but it won't be tonight either...
I feel like crap today though. Didn't sleep for diddly last night. Couldn't pinpoint any particular thing wrong, but just couldn't sleep...couldn't get comfortable, too hot, too cold, thirsty, felt like bugs crawling on me, anything and everything. If I did finally doze off it would only be for a few minutes and I'd jolt awake. When I got up this morning I almost felt like I wouldn't make it to work. I was super duper uber tired (can't imagine why?!) and felt dizzy and like my head was a buzzing chunk of cement. Sinus cooties? I don't know. Felt like crap all day, and still feel it. Going to take some Tylenol Sinus and go to be extra early and hope for the best.
GutterGuys were here today! Woohoo!! Don't know what time they got here but when I got home just after 3pm, they were just packing up their truck...they were already done. Can't wait till it rains and we can see how good they are. LOL
It's cool that they used white gutters up along the roofline, and matching tan down along the house. One small complaint is that they used the tan lower pieces along the front porch, but the front porch is white. Not a biggie. They also gave us these cool little clear plastic lock thingies on each downspout so when we flip the long end up while mowing lawn or whatever, the lock thingie catches the edge of the spout and keeps it held up. Our old ones always had to be propped with something or held by someone.
So that is the last of the actual contract work. Now we can contact the bank and go meet with them again about redoing our home loan...getting rid of this temporary account the project money has been coming out of. We're going to see how everything looks, toss new numbers around, and figure out if we want to throw our credit card balance into this mix and get it all taken care of in one big loan now. We want to keep making big payments and get it all paid off sooner, rather than comfortably small payments and pay forever. So, we'll see.
I never did write down my notes and thoughts about my random cds yesterday. I would still like to do that, but it won't be tonight either...
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Sept. 2 - Back To School
Back to school time already. Usually when this day comes I find myself feeling all bummed out that we wasted a whole summer, and the boys really didn't do anything. This summer has been so crazy though, that I don't think any of us mind things getting back to 'normal.' Even though we didn't actually go anywhere or do anything special, think we all kept busy with various things.
I have the day off today. It's been my tradition since Ty's very first day of kindergarten, twelve years ago. That first year, I took a vacation day so I could be a part of 'the first day' but also for more practical reasons like making sure he had everything and got on the bus, and being able to know when the bus picked him up and brought him back and all those little technical details. My mom was our babysitter in those days. I didn't want to leave it all up to her.
On Casey's first day of kindergarten, I took off for the same reasons, but for all the other years it's been partly for practical reasons and partly just a traditional Me Day. Wheee!
This year I do not have nearly as much of that sadness that tends to hit me. You'd think I would, with Ty being in his last year and Casey in his first year of high school. Not sure why this is. I suppose maybe because I've been keeping busy, haven't given myself time to think about it...? Probably, yep, because just in the pause it took to think about it and write that, I feel the sappy sadness already. lol
So, Ty is a senior this year. He seems quite alright with that. High school seems to have been easy for him. His grades haven't been stellar but they've been decent. He's taken all the classes he needs if he decides to go to college. He has no desire at this time to continue his schooling, and that's fine with me, but he's at least set up in classes/credits that he *can.*
Casey seemed more unsure about starting high school than Ty had on his first day. I was expecting that. Casey doesn't just go with the flow like Ty does. I suppose Casey is more like me, and that's why I worry more about him for what these next four years will bring him. High school was my personal hell. Oddly enough, between the two boys, I think it will be Casey who goes on to college if either of them goes. So, like Ty, we will make sure he has all the requirement classes taken care of just in case.
I couldn't resist a look back.....
Ty's first day of kindergarten, in 1996:
Casey's first day of kindergarten, 1999:
And first day of school, 2008:
(Can't really see them, sorry. It was a spur of the moment pic, out the living room window. lol)
So here I am, with a whole day to myself. Aaaaaahhhhhhh, the peace, the quiet. I had so many things I'd planned on getting done but I've let myself off the hook and will do whatever I feel like doing. I've still be busy, but just not putting that pressure on myself. I'd rather enjoy my day. I've done some basic house cleaning, light dusting. I've baked brownies and three kinds of cookies (all from mixes, geez). And thru it all I've been playing my old cds, and playing them blissfully loud...something I can't do when the menfolk are home. Hehe.
Listening to these particular cds always takes me back to those wonderful early days of my internet life. It's given me an idea too. I might write some posts commenting on each song on my random cds. Give my thoughts on each song, where I know it from, why I like it, what thoughts it takes me back to. That sappy kind of stuff. Yes, I think I will do this!
But first, I have to dash off and do at least two of the jobs I'd planned on getting done today. No way around it, these two must get done. So, I'm outta here for now but will probably post again later today.
Tata for now!
I have the day off today. It's been my tradition since Ty's very first day of kindergarten, twelve years ago. That first year, I took a vacation day so I could be a part of 'the first day' but also for more practical reasons like making sure he had everything and got on the bus, and being able to know when the bus picked him up and brought him back and all those little technical details. My mom was our babysitter in those days. I didn't want to leave it all up to her.
On Casey's first day of kindergarten, I took off for the same reasons, but for all the other years it's been partly for practical reasons and partly just a traditional Me Day. Wheee!
This year I do not have nearly as much of that sadness that tends to hit me. You'd think I would, with Ty being in his last year and Casey in his first year of high school. Not sure why this is. I suppose maybe because I've been keeping busy, haven't given myself time to think about it...? Probably, yep, because just in the pause it took to think about it and write that, I feel the sappy sadness already. lol
So, Ty is a senior this year. He seems quite alright with that. High school seems to have been easy for him. His grades haven't been stellar but they've been decent. He's taken all the classes he needs if he decides to go to college. He has no desire at this time to continue his schooling, and that's fine with me, but he's at least set up in classes/credits that he *can.*
Casey seemed more unsure about starting high school than Ty had on his first day. I was expecting that. Casey doesn't just go with the flow like Ty does. I suppose Casey is more like me, and that's why I worry more about him for what these next four years will bring him. High school was my personal hell. Oddly enough, between the two boys, I think it will be Casey who goes on to college if either of them goes. So, like Ty, we will make sure he has all the requirement classes taken care of just in case.
I couldn't resist a look back.....
Ty's first day of kindergarten, in 1996:
Casey's first day of kindergarten, 1999:
And first day of school, 2008:
(Can't really see them, sorry. It was a spur of the moment pic, out the living room window. lol)
So here I am, with a whole day to myself. Aaaaaahhhhhhh, the peace, the quiet. I had so many things I'd planned on getting done but I've let myself off the hook and will do whatever I feel like doing. I've still be busy, but just not putting that pressure on myself. I'd rather enjoy my day. I've done some basic house cleaning, light dusting. I've baked brownies and three kinds of cookies (all from mixes, geez). And thru it all I've been playing my old cds, and playing them blissfully loud...something I can't do when the menfolk are home. Hehe.
Listening to these particular cds always takes me back to those wonderful early days of my internet life. It's given me an idea too. I might write some posts commenting on each song on my random cds. Give my thoughts on each song, where I know it from, why I like it, what thoughts it takes me back to. That sappy kind of stuff. Yes, I think I will do this!
But first, I have to dash off and do at least two of the jobs I'd planned on getting done today. No way around it, these two must get done. So, I'm outta here for now but will probably post again later today.
Tata for now!
Sept. 1
Can't believe it's SEPTEMBER already! I mean, I love it...love Fall, and coming into the holiday season...but what a crazy, fast summer it's been.
Boring Labor Day for us around here. I think we kinda decided we'd been busting our butts on the house stuff and wanted a slacker day. Hubby put in major hours playing Warcraft, trying to level up his little dwarf paladin. Casey played with him alot. Ty and I watched alot of 'Two and a Half Men,' and I sorted thru papers and things that had been piling up. Got Casey's school papers filled out too. (He got his early, at orientation last week. Ty will get his the first day of school.)
Late afternoon we decided to at least get the last of the trim installed in the rebuilt room so I can get busy on the touch-up work. Hubby opened the basement door to better place one of the pieces and we heard water spraying down there. Again.
Oh.Friggen.No.
He went flying down the stairs with an aggravated "AAAARRRRRGH!" I heard him splashing thru water and knew it wasn't good. I heard him switch something off, swear, and call back up the stairs "Trim will have to wait. Call the plumber again."
And of course, why did have to AGAIN be after hours, and now on a holiday? It's karma, I know it. Well, the dude showed up and the good news is that he was only here a very short time. The bad news is our pressure tank had to be replaced. *sigh*
We did get the trim put in after that little distraction. Hubby and the boys cleaned up the yard (all the scrap wood, etc.) while I did a bit more scraping on my door. Then we decided screw it and went back to slacking for the rest of the evening. The boys played Warcraft. Hubby and I watched the movie 'Definately, Maybe.'
That movie...ok, I love Ryan Reynolds. *swoon* He was even hot when he was a geeky little dweeb on that horrible Degrassi wannabe show called Fifteen. He's the main reason I Netflixed this particular movie. I didn't have extremely high hopes about anything but, dang, it seemed to drag for me. Hubby seemed to laugh more and enjoy it more than I did. Was I just tired? Was I just preoccupied with thoughts of back to school and all the things I should have gotten done during the day? I don't know. But the movie seemed sooooo long, and boring to me.
And the girl I thought would be the mother, the one I *wanted* to be the mother, was not.
For those not familiar with this movie, Ryan's character is telling his daughter the story of how he ended up with her mother. He doesn't want to tell her the story but she insists. He tells her there were three main loves in his life, and agrees to tell the whole story but will change names. His daughter says she can still figure out which one is her mother. So the movie kinda flashes from him telling the story and her commenting on things, back to the actual events. The viewer doesn't know who it is either...well, unless I missed something. And my guess was wrong. LOL I did cry towards the end though. Of course.
After the movie, before bed, the boys and I went over everything for school...made sure about supplies and schedules and stuff. Gave Casey a bit of a pep talk. Lectured Ty on not making life miserable for his brother. And then everyone was in bed, and the house was quiet, and I was not tired but didn't want to do anything.
So it was off to bed for me too.
Boring Labor Day for us around here. I think we kinda decided we'd been busting our butts on the house stuff and wanted a slacker day. Hubby put in major hours playing Warcraft, trying to level up his little dwarf paladin. Casey played with him alot. Ty and I watched alot of 'Two and a Half Men,' and I sorted thru papers and things that had been piling up. Got Casey's school papers filled out too. (He got his early, at orientation last week. Ty will get his the first day of school.)
Late afternoon we decided to at least get the last of the trim installed in the rebuilt room so I can get busy on the touch-up work. Hubby opened the basement door to better place one of the pieces and we heard water spraying down there. Again.
Oh.Friggen.No.
He went flying down the stairs with an aggravated "AAAARRRRRGH!" I heard him splashing thru water and knew it wasn't good. I heard him switch something off, swear, and call back up the stairs "Trim will have to wait. Call the plumber again."
And of course, why did have to AGAIN be after hours, and now on a holiday? It's karma, I know it. Well, the dude showed up and the good news is that he was only here a very short time. The bad news is our pressure tank had to be replaced. *sigh*
We did get the trim put in after that little distraction. Hubby and the boys cleaned up the yard (all the scrap wood, etc.) while I did a bit more scraping on my door. Then we decided screw it and went back to slacking for the rest of the evening. The boys played Warcraft. Hubby and I watched the movie 'Definately, Maybe.'
That movie...ok, I love Ryan Reynolds. *swoon* He was even hot when he was a geeky little dweeb on that horrible Degrassi wannabe show called Fifteen. He's the main reason I Netflixed this particular movie. I didn't have extremely high hopes about anything but, dang, it seemed to drag for me. Hubby seemed to laugh more and enjoy it more than I did. Was I just tired? Was I just preoccupied with thoughts of back to school and all the things I should have gotten done during the day? I don't know. But the movie seemed sooooo long, and boring to me.
And the girl I thought would be the mother, the one I *wanted* to be the mother, was not.
For those not familiar with this movie, Ryan's character is telling his daughter the story of how he ended up with her mother. He doesn't want to tell her the story but she insists. He tells her there were three main loves in his life, and agrees to tell the whole story but will change names. His daughter says she can still figure out which one is her mother. So the movie kinda flashes from him telling the story and her commenting on things, back to the actual events. The viewer doesn't know who it is either...well, unless I missed something. And my guess was wrong. LOL I did cry towards the end though. Of course.
After the movie, before bed, the boys and I went over everything for school...made sure about supplies and schedules and stuff. Gave Casey a bit of a pep talk. Lectured Ty on not making life miserable for his brother. And then everyone was in bed, and the house was quiet, and I was not tired but didn't want to do anything.
So it was off to bed for me too.
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