Wednesday, June 29, 2011

I should be cleaning.....

But who REALLY wants to DO that???  I know I don't.  

I need to get the house ship shape though, as Jessica will be having a friend here for a week,... I'll be waking the summer time sleepy heads to help out shortly too.  They'll totally love me for that!  
So, yes, friend coming in from Wisconsin, they've been online friends for probably 3 years now? and are very excited to see each other in person.  They do skype a lot which is really neat.  I hope to keep them pretty well occupied with going and doing.  

Geoffery's 11th Bday is Tues, July 5th.  In the morning, he and Jessica both have dental cleanings! Yay! Happy Birthday Geoff LOL  After that, I think we will take the kids to IHOP for breakfast.  Geoff can eat his weight in pancakes, and with all the fun ones they have, he's sure to be very happy about that.

Not too much else been going on.  I guess I should get up off my rear and do something :o)

Hope you're having a lovely summer!!!

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Nothing new....

Good Morning!

It's still 11am so I can actually say that.  I've been up awhile,... hubby was back to work this morning.  I didn't bother falling back into bed as I wanted to fix the kids a nice breakfast.  I found this awesome french toast casserole recipe and tried it out when daughter had a friend for the night.  Needless to say, it was a big hit!!  To me, it's almost like a bread pudding.  VERY yummy!!  I thought maybe cousin would bring her two over this morning before she went to work.  However, yesterday afternoon we had some severe weather, which included a tornado just outside her house!!! Thankfully no major damage was done, but there are still power outages all over the place.  Ours was out for about 2 1/2 hours yesterday.  She didn't know if the salon had power this morning and whether or not her early client would show or not,... so things got jumbled up.  No worries,... I bet Sydney will eat the whole pan by herself ROFL

The weekend was pretty nice.  Quiet.  Friday morning hubby got off work,.... slept most the morning and into the afternoon.  I took youngest to see cousin for a major haircut! He was lookin pretty shaggy.  When I got home, hubby was up.  I grilled us up some burgers for dinner,... they were bigger than the bun!! YUM!!!  Rest of the night was quiet, hubby was still pretty tired, he slept.... I goofed online.

Saturday morning was piano,... took Sydney for that, ran in/out of Target for coffee and GameStop for an EQ2 card.  Back home to grill us a nice dinner of chicken with baked beans and a HUGE salad that oldest fixed.  I was STUFFED to the max.  Chris was enjoying a glass of wine and decided he had to share with his cousin and took off to go see him.  So, I watched some tv and played online.  Until my stomach rebelled against all the food I'd eaten.  I read for a good hour, and considered falling into bed, but just before 10pm hubby returned and we watched a show then I fell into bed.

Sunday morning, was pretty sleepy as hubby couldn't sleep that night.  He was up and down and up and down,... bleh.  I had been smelling something early in the morning hours,.... even got up around midnight and sprayed some Oust! spray hoping it would help.  Is our septic having issues I wondered??? Hmmmm... toilet flushed okay.... *shrug*  When I came out of the bedroom, could smell it more.... okay.... started cleaning, looking through potatoes or anything that might be out and spoiled,... I couldn't pin point the smell.  Cleaned out the inside fridge, then headed to the garage fridge,.... opened that door and *WHAM* stink!!!! Maybe hubby hit a skunk on his way home???  Smelled like something had died though.  Geoff said it smelled like hamburgers,.. Sydney said it just smelled funny.  The fact that they could smell it, meant it WAS something.  So, I opened the garage door to air things out.  Once hubby was up I asked him about it, he said he could smell it last night too when he got home.  Hmm..... 

Gina and family were coming over so I was finishing up the housework, got a shower, and went to scrub the grill off.  We had a MAJOR sandstorm blow through Saturday night while grilling the chicken,.... plus the bbq sauce that gets all over the sides of the grill was getting gross.  I was washing it off,... when I noticed two things,.... the 2 far right burners were turned in the ON position,... I didn't even USE those burners Saturday night,.... another thought was check the tank.  It was open.  I was in a hurry to get outta the wind/sand Saturday night I grabbed the plate of chicken and dashed inside the house.  Before hubby left, he put the grill away for me.  He didn't think to turn the tank off, because I usually do that before leaving the grill.  So, THAT and the burners left ON,... #1. we had no propane to grill with #2.  THAT'S where the stink was coming from!!!!  #3.  Hubby smokes.  Usually in the garage.  Had he done that Saturday evening,.... well... Kaboom! So, we both agreed that whoever puts the grill away, needs to double check the tank.... ALWAYS.

Hubby was home yesterday, we laid low, didn't do a whole lot.  I finished my book *sigh* I always hate that,... hate having to wait for the next one too.  Although, rumor has it, it should be out next month! I can't wait!!!  I've also got Sookie Stackhouse to read,.... and a couple others,... but I do enjoy reading one after the other :o)

Today, I think most everything I wanted to get done is done... might throw in a load of laundry, but we'll see.  I should go out and weed through my sunflowers, and move some around as they're bunched up on one side.  That sounds too much like work though..... maybe later.  Oh, I do need to run hubby's truck to get some gas and get our new atm/debit cards activated,.... prolly see if Dollar General has hubby's Monster drinks,...  yup yup busy busy ;o)

Guess I'll get off here and run those errands real fast!!  Hope y'all have a great day!!!

Thursday, June 02, 2011

Hello June....

Yeah, I really am a suck ass blogger.

School is now over for the year.  Kids did pretty well grade wise.  I'm peeved about the whole benchmark exam that we have to have here.  Our school (and I'm sure other schools as well) focus so hard on that stupid exam that it seems they lack on actual school work.  Geoff has a super hard time with math.  I hope one day that a light comes on and he just "gets it".  Until then we struggle through with him.  Benchmark exam they said he scored proficient which is great,.... but why does he have an F on his report card???? *sigh*  Other than that he did great.  Very proud of all 3 kids.  Hard to believe next year I will have a 5th, 8th and 11th grader!!!

In other news,.... I know I jabbered about going back to school and doing nursing.  After talking with a gal that is going through the program herself, I realized that it's going to take me more than 2 years to get through it all.  I will have to do the pre-prerequisites for the classes I would need for nursing.  That sucks.  

So,... going back to my original plan when my cousin moved here.  Nail school.  I will go to school and get a license to do nails!! I'm really excited about it.  I've always had a thing about my nails, enjoy cleaning them up and making them look nice.  I still remember mom getting me a little bag filled with fun nail goodies.  I was maybe 12.  When she would sit in the living room doing her nails, I would do mine too.  Our hope is that once Gina really builds up a clientele then we can open a salon together!! So, we'll see.  I hope that I can start this school sometime late July or early August.  Be done around Dec or so.  I really like the idea of setting my own schedule and being my own boss.  This way when hubby is home, and we want to make plans, I can arrange that.  Rather than having to make sure I can get time off.  
Yup yup, that's the plan now and I'm sticking to this one :o)  I'll keep you posted!!