commence the headless chicken running and grumpiness

The party for the kidlet is this Saturday at 4.. They have now put a 30% chance of t-storms int he late afternoon for Saturday, Sunday and Monday.... I have a slip n slide and water balloons planned along with make your own ice cream sundae's and general mayhem of an 8yo party.

GAH!!!!! I have been waylaid with a migraine headache for a day and a 1/2 and now have to clean the entire inside, plus do wash, cook regular meals and manage the bills and vacation stuff....GAHHHHHH

Not that the bills are anything new but we have an extra paycheck this month that I am trying very hard not to touch at all. The temptation is there but I want to leave it for our "oops" money.

The vacation isn't much but it is very much looked forward to, 3 1/2 days up in the mountains. Its a birthday party for our friends mom and we have been invited up to stay. We are staying at the cabin so its basically gas money thats needed. We will be leaving on a Thursday afternoon and coming home late Sunday. We might end up going up for a few more days in the fall again if we can take the kiddo out of school for a few days with out messing up his grades.

Blah Blah Blah bitchy thing arent I?

a great sale, coupons and a red pen.....

$56 and change. That's what I spent on the groceries this past weekend. That's $6 over my budgeted amount but I am not gonna quibble.

For my $56 I got....
6 rolls Bounty paper towels
2 things of aluminum foil
2 things of plastic wrap
9 -4 packs of batteries
4 bags of Quakes
4 togo packs of Nutter Butters
2 bottles of Kens salad dressing
1 bag sauerkraut
3 yogurt drinks
3 containers Bryers ice cream
3 gallons of poland springs water
6 gallons of Arizona Tea
5 cans of tuna fish
2 boxes of ice cream cones
3 Gallons of Turkey Hill green tea
1 head of lettuce
1 bottle chocolate syrup
12 pounds of chicken quarters
1 gallon of milk
2 jar of mayo
5 breakstone cottage cheese doubles


Normally just the tea, batteries and chicken would be that much if not more. The store near me has this amazing sale going on. Most of the stuff was either 77 cents or 1.77 and the chicken was 37 cents a pound. No way could I pass this sale up.

Happy 4th of July!!

Don't over eat and don't get hurt with the fire crackers!

I have pasta going now for mac salad and I am about to put my killer ribs in the oven to slow cook all day. I'll take them out right before dinner to grill for a few minutes to crisp them up. Yummy... Baked potato, salad and corn will round out tonight's dinner.

We'll go watch fireworks later as long as the weather holds out.

We have spent the holiday weekend putzing. Thursday was the kiddos 8th birthday and we got him a basketball backboard. DH spent most of last night trying to get it up. We need to go get something today and then it will be up for him to enjoy. The kiddos party is next weekend and he can't wait. That's the one bad thing about having a kid so close to a holiday, you can never do the party on the actual day :(

I have to work the closing shift tomorrow. I think I have closed maybe 3 times in 2 years. BLAH!! I will have dinner in the crock pot for when I come home though, no fast food for me.

I have gone on a 20 - 30 minute bike ride 4 days this week. More then likely get one in today also.

I have issues

no excuses, just the admission of the fact that I have issues that I need to work on.

My life is great but at the same time my life has some issues that are wholly mine that cause me stress.

I need to get back to a lot of things I was doing 2 months ago. Not sure why I stopped. Not sure why I am doing what I am doing. Maybe I need professional help.

Right now I need to do the following for one of my issues and it won't be hard for you to figure out what it is.

Pack breakfast and lunch for my work days. Not that hard to do - 2 days its breakfast and 2 days its lunch.

Leave my debit card at home when going out window shopping.

Stick to my shopping list, remember my bags and coupons.

My Health is the other issue. This past week I had to have my second cortisone shot in my foot, had to have my knee and back examined also. The knee was tied in with the foot issue and is getting better now that the foot feels better to walk on. My back - well I am on muscle relaxers to help with the pain- more of a burning pressure really- but I was informed I have a slight curving of the spine.

I am 36 and I am 30 pounds over weight.

I need to do the following for this issue.

Drink my water - I have been drinking to much green tea lately.

Eat right - I had cherries and strawberries today for a snack.

Journal/ track my food.

Exercise.

This last one I have also taken steps towards..... well pedals actually.



I have ridden with my son for 20-30 minutes the last 2 nights. Tonight's a night off as my rear hurts and its very muggy out. I haven't been on a bike in 20 years, think I need a padded seat.


I am also thinking about going for therapy and see if it helps but I am not sure what my issues is besides no control.

wow life sure does get in the way

Honestly its not life really, just me being very lazy and lacking in any modivation to do much right now.

Burnt out feeling on everything and not wanting to sound like a broken record about it all.

I am hoping that after allowing myself to feel down and lazy for a few days I'll snap out of it. So come Saturday its a new week for me and I am starting it off refreshed for not pushing to do anything for afew days.

this might be me......

I have time now

its a good and a bad thing.

I am on my reduced hours schedule at work until August 31st. It doesn't make sense for me to work 37 hours a week to have to give it all to a camp or sitter. I'll be working 22 hours a week and have time to take the kiddo places also. It will be tight but we'll manage.

Poor kiddo isn't happy with me right now either. 1st day of summer vacation and he has to help mom clean the house. Oh well its a dreary day out and it needs to get done. Do it now and we have the weekend to relax is how I figure it.

Basically my plan for the next 3 months is to get my house in order again, learn how to air brush, lose weight and learn how to relax again.

To much stress has tried to weasel its way back in to my life and I have fought it off. But with a very close friend having a cancer diagnosis in the last 2 weeks, another losing the family dog and the recent events with GM ( GM family here) its has been hard.

I just confirmed with our friends in NY that we are coming up for 3 days the end of July. No cell phone reception up there in the mountains so its a blessing. Its the birthday celebration of our friends mom. Should be fun. We'll also talk about a visit in the fall during leave season.

I best get back to the house work or I'll spend all summer bitching about it.