Parent week at Michaela's gymnastics class.
Headache so bad it's making my stomach ache.
Finished listening to audio book "The Virgin Blue" by Tracy Chevalier. Really liked the book. Bought another book by her from iTunes called "Falling Angels." Will sync it to my iPod tomorrow.
Next Sunday, Michaela and I will be preparing for the sleep over in The City Museum. We will also be on Spring Break. Caleb will have to go to my mom's next Monday morning until Michaela and I get home from The City Museum.
We went to church this morning. Michaela was already there with Lauren and her family because she spent the night over there last night. After church we went to Pasta House with Michael's parents. It was a good lunch and I enjoyed talking with my MIL and FIL, but the service was HORRIBLE today. It was so weird. We've never had bad service there before.
Now, I'm waiting for the next load of laundry to finish drying and watching last Thursday's airing of LOST. Michael and his dad went out to Michael's work to build something. My brother and his wife have not called or come by yet. I need to take the cookie money to Michaela's leader sometime soon and go pick up a prescription from Walgreen's. I wish I could take a nap.
I pretty much am only going to worry about getting laundry done and getting lesson plans done for the rest of this month. That won't take long, though. I basically am only going to have to change dates and make some minor adjustments from last year's plans for the theme we're starting tomorrow.
On a positive note, I am feeling better. I *think* my seasonal depression is getting better. The real test will be this week, though. Since the time change is so much earlier this year, I'll be back to driving to work before the sun is up again. That seems to irritate my depression more than anything else. Anyway, even if it does make me feel not great again, it'll be short lived.
I took care of the bills and checkbook. I'm so proud of myself because for the past three weeks, I've kept it up to date on a weekly basis. It's so much easier when I update everything weekly. Especially lately because we've not been spending much money during the week at all.
Then, the kids and I went to the bank and deposited all the cookie money. When I was finished there, we went to the post office. Michaela dropped a couple envelopes in the slots for me and I bought a bunch of stamps. I'm trying to stock up before the price of postage goes up. Next, we headed for Walmart. It was a mad house and most people there were wandering around with their heads stuck up their butts. I was so glad to get out of there and come home.
My brother and SIL were supposed to come over this afternoon to get their cookies, but by 4:20 I'd not heard from them and Stacey had called. She invited us over to play games with them and the Gravemans. And, Lauren invited Michaela to spend the night. So, I called my SIL again and they were getting ready to go to a benefit so we decided they would come over tomorrow.
We had a lot of fun tonight. It was great to get to play with other adults. Stacey, Steve, Marlene and Keith all have such great senses of humor. We laughed so much and just really enjoyed each other's company. We played a card game called Hand and Foot. I've not played that is a very long time. I'd forgotten most of the rules. But, I also think that they play with rules that are different from what I'd learned growing up.
I think sometime soon we're going to have to invite them over here and do games over here. Maybe Uno Attack or Mexican Train, or something like that. It feels good to have couple friends that seem to really enjoy being around us.
Michael said something that I laughed at earlier this week. He said something about looking forward to the weekend. He doesn't really say things like this so I was a little puzzled. So, I asked him why. He said it was going to be daylight savings time and he was going to enjoy every minute of that extra hour. Ha ha ha! I had to remind him this is the spring "forward" part of day light savings time and that we are going to LOSE an hour, not gain one. He wasn't real happy about that reminder.
Not much went on here tonight. We went to get BK for supper because Caleb has been wanting one of the Monster Truck things they've been advertising that comes in their kids' meals. Of course, again we got there too late and they are out of them again. Burger King is really getting on my nerves lately. My kids get Snoopy toys from there all the time. How it is they can never run out of Snoopy but run out of all the other stuff is beyond me.
Michael and I actually watched "Bring it On" on The Family Channel tonight. *LOL* I've seen it a few times already and I think he's seen it. But, that's about how much energy we had and NOTHING else was on.
Tonight was basically just spent watching Survivor and LOST. The kids have started watching Survivor with us on Thursday nights. It's cool to have something we all enjoy watching.
The really nice part was that we didn't have to leave the house so early. I made sure Caleb was in his class by 8:30 and then took Michaela to school. Then, I picked Caleb up by 3:30 and went and got Michaela. So, they both were only away from home for actual school hours today.
I got the laundry that I started yesterday done, but that was basically all I did. Well, I did clean up the kitchen, too. But, I really just enjoyed the quiet and not having to do anything.
It got into the lower 50's today and most of the snow that we got yesterday is already gone. It's been a wild and crazy weather week. Tomorrow is supposed to be colder again and on Friday there's another chance for snow. But, they are not predicting a lot of snow and it's not a high chance. I don't think it's going to be anything major.
Tonight I took Michaela to girl scouts. Then, I went to church. They have JAMS on Wednesday nights. I went to deliver cookies. It was cool. I walked into church and people just started handing me money. Ok, so I don't get to keep the money, but still it was kinda cool.
I also got to talk with a few of the other moms from church for a while. I enjoy talking with them and spending time around them. It always makes me feel so much more connected with the world when I get to talk to people I really enjoy being around.
I stayed until it was time to pick Michaela up from girl scouts. She was the last one there because I was running behind. But, it was only about 5 minutes or so behind. Then, we went to my mom's to get her share of the money from the cookies she sold. We will be turning in cookie money on Sunday.
I still have three people from work to collect from. Brandon needs to come get his cookies and pay for them. And, we have two people from church that we still have to give cookies to and get money from. As of Sunday, our cookie ordeal from this year will be over. Yeah!
At first I was a little annoyed that they called off school because by 10 a.m. there still was nothing substantial happening. Then, by 10:30 it was snowing like crazy. The kids and I had taken Stacey's cookies to her. When we went over there, the street was just wet. By the time we left, I could not tell where the street I needed to turn onto was to get home. It took us about 15 minutes to drive the two miles between Stacey's house and our house.
I did shovel the driveway today and I'm exhausted. I think I pulled a muscle in my side or something. I'm sore from my rib cage around to the middle of my back. But, it felt good to get that accomplished.
I actually did get a lot accomplished today. The kids and I went and did the grocery shopping before the snow came. We took the cookies to Stacey and I got to visit with her some. I cleaned up the rest of the stuff that needed to be put away from last night's mess. I did three loads of laundry (and still have another I'm going to have to do). And, of course there was making supper and cleaning up the kitchen. It was a good day off.
Michael took the kids sledding after we finished supper. They should be home soon. Michaela needs to take a shower before going to bed. I am going to have to put all their winter outer wear in the washing machine and make sure everything is dried before morning so they can wear their coats to school.
It's also Jericho night. I hope I can make it through tonight's episode without falling asleep. It doesn't come on until 9:00 pm, which I am happy about because it means the kids are already in bed. But, sometimes I have a hard time staying awake until 10:00 p.m. However, I do tape all the episodes so I can re-watch if I miss something due to any kind of interruption.
They've reduced the amount of snow/sleet that we were supposed to get. Now, nothing else is supposed to happen until early morning. It'll probably just enough to mess up both rush hours.
The sink in the kitchen got clogged up tonight. It's a bad clog and seems to be something that has been building for a while. Michael is working on it now and is having problems with it. We cannot run the dishwasher until it's fixed. He managed to get drain clog chemicals on him. I hope it did not burn him too badly. I had to lock the dog in our room so she would not walk across the floor. We lost a rug in the process. There are towels that are going to need special attention. And, the floor will have to be mopped before I go to bed. I hope he's able to get it unclogged. He's using a plumbing snake he borrowed from his dad.
It's been a huge mess. When he took the joint off the pipes chemical laden gunky water went everywhere. We've had to throw away a bunch of stuff that was under the sink. That's how the chemicals got on him. At least we did not have to call a plumber. That would have sucked. I'm sure it would have been at least a couple hundred dollars just to unclog that damned thing.
I did do most of the laundry, cleaned up the dishes in the kitchen and took Michaela to a birthday party this afternoon. Other than that all I've done is lay in bed and watch Heroes online. I have finished watching both seasons of it now, just to find out there is no scheduled air date for the next episode. Alrighty then.
I've really enjoyed watching things on Netflix lately. It really makes the membership fees worth it. This month's membership fee has really paid for itself over and over again. But, then again, after the times we've not returned movies for over a month, it is all evening out at this point.
It was absolutely BEAUTIFUL here today. The temperature got up to 78 degrees here today. It's just been a great weekend weather wise. The kids had so much fun getting to go outside most of the weekend. They did not have to wear jackets at all today. Michael even took them to the park for a while.
But, it's supposed to drop into the 40's tonight. We may get thunderstorms overnight. They are predicting some winter stuff again tomorrow afternoon through Tuesday afternoon. They already have a winter storm watch in effect for then. I pretty much always just wait and see. Things can change so much between now and Monday afternoon. So, we'll see.
Michaela and I went to her Girl Scout Troop Leader's house this morning. We needed to pick up some more boxes of cookies. Her leader looked up some numbers while we were there. Michaela has sold around 270 boxes now. She is top seller, still. What really amazed me is that the troop has done over $5000.00 in cookie sales. They get to keep about $1000.00. That is ridiculous. That's less than a dollar a box. Cookie sales are a lot of work, and they sure aren't going to make it easy for the troop to make money. On the other hand, it's $1000.00 they didn't have before.
After lunch I went and did Walmart shopping by myself. I'm very proud. I got out of there for less than $50.00 this week. Of course, we didn't really need a whole lot, so that helps. It wouldn't have even been that much if I hadn't had to get a present for the birthday party that Michaela is going to tomorrow. I got a Mushabelly cow. It snores and moos. It's very cute.
I ironed about 10 shirts for Michael today, too. And, of course did some laundry.
We went to Hatfield's and McCoy's for supper tonight. I think I made a mistake ordering the butterfly shrimp. My stomach started cramping around 8:30 tonight. I think it's going to be a long night. I don't think my stomach will do fried shrimp anymore.
I managed to watch the rest of the first season of Heroes today/ tonight. I started the first episode of the second season, too. I'm liking it, I think. It's just VERY dark and a little depressing. But, it's holding my interest. One thing that helps is the guy who plays Peter. He used to be on Gilmore Girls and I like his acting ability.
One really good thing about today is it got warm! It was up into the mid 60's. I went to Walmart without a jacket and came home with the window rolled down. It was so nice to have the fresh air circulating in the van. It's supposed to be warm tomorrow, too and then get cold again on Monday.
