Productive day..and painful.

I cleaned all the carpets upstairs and the beds and stairs. WOW, that was a lot of work. My shoulder was killing me and popping a ton, we'll see how if feels tomorrow. I'm going to rearrange things tomorrow night if I can move. We also have a meeting tomorrow night since the CO is in town. We have decided to leave the boys in the bunk beds for now, and get them moved to their own room. Since this will be a work in progress and it is cheaper to heat one room than 2 at night we will move our bed temporarily into their room and go from there. We are going to insist they sleep in their own beds, we have even gotten them new cool bed spreads. I will need to pick up one more plastic sheet for Smiley's bed. Since he is still in diapers and doesn't leak it isn't a rush, but I need to try to do it in the next couple of weeks. We are also going to buy everyone in the house new pillows, it's time. I'm going to set up my sewing table in the other room and ban the children from being in there. We will put up a door and a gate at the tops of the stairs. Well I need to get to bed, but find my phone first, it's been missing for 2 days now...how peaceful.

loosing momentum

I've been so tired, so incredibly tired. I took a 4 hour nap today and could've slept all night. Yesterday I posted a wanted for the hooked on phonics system. So someone told me that they saw one at Goodwill the day before and recommend I check there, so we did that today, we got the whole system for $5.99. WOW!! We also picked up two or three suits for Duck and a couple of pants and sport coats. I love deals..now I just have to get them dry cleaned. Sunshine is ready to start reading, I want to get him into it. He can do all his Pre-K and K stuff so the next thing is the to teach him to read. We will then start picking out parts of the bible and giving him assignments for the Watchtower Study so he can speak. We are working on our schedule and getting him set up. I am going to call to see if I can get him into the doc, he needs to be checked I think he may have an ear infection or something, he is acting funny. Well I got a carpet cleaner so I need to get things started tonight so I can go over them again in the morning.

How to get rid of the cat pee smell...

So the cat peed on Sunshine's jacket and of all places...inside the dryer..AHHH. Okay, it's an animal...should be thrilled it is alive, but it's an animal. I racked my brain all day as to what to try and I found some ideas on the net..one mentioned, febreeze. Okay, so I'm thinking that febreeze, vinegar and soap is going to do the trick...guess what it worked so incredibly well. Not a hint of the smell is left and the cat is saying it's prayers.

Well I've gotta be up at the crack of dawn...oh wait, it won't crack dawn until I'm at work for a few hours...anyhow gotta take a shower and go to bed.
Night
Me.

What is we could....

Save 80% on our home energy usage?....and still run the dryer? Would you do it? It's going to take some work, but we are going to give it a try. I could not imagine spending only 20-30 dollars a month for our utility bill. That would save us so much money..better yet if we could run a electric furnace and only pay 50-75 dollar a month and never pay a gas payment again. That would save us about 250 dollar a month during the winter. Wow....what a though. Our monthly electricity bill is down to about 100, just under a month as it is. If it is true and we can build solar panels for $100.00 each, we are looking to put up about35-50 units. It would then only make sense that we would pay for them in about 60 months. Since they will last 25 years, that will be a good return on our investment. The return is about 20,000. That is worth it. Then if 6 windmills can provide about about another 3000 watts per hour, that will allow us to bank what we aren't using for months that we may use more like summer or winter.

Okay, well I've got a lot to get done, I need to get the laundry finished up so we can move the washer and dryer and hopefully we can move the deep freezer...we'll see.

Toodles.

What's good for the garden???

So I did a research part today on what to compost. So I found out that in Britian they pee on their compost piles. Yummy. Can't say that I plan on doing that anytime soon...too public.

So I've worked the past two days, infact the past 4 have been really nice considering. There have been a few minor unhappy points, but overall, it's been good. I'm really happy to see everyone starting to pull together. It's about time we real team work going. Sat was great and today we wonderful as well. I've been so overly happy at how well things have been going.

Anyhow, things are chugging along, not nearly as I'd like but I've gotten a bit of an eye opening thought. What if, and the way the economy has been, it got a bit better and then went so much worse...like the great depression. A sister today made a comment that some analysists are predicting that to happen and happen within the next year. So what can be done? On an individual basis and on a group/global basis?

Well I'm going to try to get the boys up really early to possibly go into FSM.

Toodles.

Me.

Oh happy days....

Okay, so first of all..work...you could cut the tension with a knife. While people are starting to follow one policy it makes me happy to see that it is really starting to work, but there are those who still blame me for what happened. First of all I want to say this: Sexual Harassment is against the law, and it absolutely can't be tolorated in any work enviroment, allowing such horse play and harrassment go on leads to lawsuits frivilious or not. Second..it wasn't my decision to let said individual go, I liked that this person worked, said person seemed to work well, and it was sad that the uppper managment had to take the steps that they did, but said individual left, they weren't terminated. By not reporting this event it would set me up for all kinds of potention trouble. The other manager who didn't report it would have faced the same blame. I did what I was suppose to and I'm again getting cut down for it...how is this right? Horse play has no room in the restaurant period. I want to have fun while I work, I want to have a good time, but I don't want to put my job at jeopardy doing so. It is time for everyone to just move on, do their jobs and either have fun and not make others miserable. I refuse to be miserable at work because of any of this. I'm serious about getting the job done right, but I can have fun doing it. I think that others take me wrong, they seem not to care to get to know me, otherwise things might be different. I so tired of getting critized for things that others do, I won't ask someone to do something that I wouldn't or don't do. I'm not going to be leaving any time soon, I won't be forced into leaving, if others are that unhappy that is very unfortunate. I want everyone to be happy at work, what else can I do?

We got new phones, I'm really happy with the phones but not so sure about the plan. I'm nervous signing contracts but the plans seems like it is going to fit. All in all, I think it is going to work out fine for us. We dropped the home phone to practically nothing and the cells will have 550 plus our extra.

Tomorrow I'm going to enjoy the day off with the boys. I'm going to have a good time getting their bedrooms ready for remodel and getting things moved around. I want to make sure that I get all the windows taken care of as well. We've pretty much given upon the idea of the wood stove, we were misled into thinking this would work with our current system, although I kept saying mixing gas fumes and potention fire particles doesn't make much sense.

Well I need to scoot, computer is about to die and I want to get a head start.

Thanks to everyone who did a good job today and who tried to do a good job. I notice things, even when I don't say anything...I notice.

K

Call out the dogs....

And light the fires, change is in the air. It's time to make a difference in life.

The past two days have been interesting. I've been in an unbelieveable amount of pain, tonight I'm pretty sure that I've taken care of most of it, I relocated my shoulder. I simply finally found the spot and pushed. It was releiving, I still have minor pain but feel better.

BOB

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixMvFdeo-F0&feature=related

Got about 3 min? Check out this video on youTube...I LOVE IT. It lists the book of the bible in order to a song. I even went to this guys website and he has so many more. www.bigsbyshow.com

Just thought I'd share it.


Me.

Another day.

I had to be at work at 4 am this morning. Then I answer the phone, the opener in the kitchen called off. Okay, so for most this isn't a big deal, but let's face it, I've only opened kitchen once, and I still have a bum shoulder. This was not going to be fun. I did as much as I could and we got the store opened on time. I had to leave at nine as much as I didn't want to, I had to. Duck had to go to school. I had my final bible study today, now it is up to me to make the adjustments to continue to study. I've started reading one of th books I got from Sister T. Smiley really seemed to like it he sat there while I read an entire chapter, Sunshine joined in through the middle of the chapter.

Later we went to pick up my check. I was happy with it, I had a LOT of hours on it. I had to cash it today at the local store since the banks were closed. We then went into town and picked up a few things. I now need to go up and fold the clothes. I'm trying to get them all put away so I can get them completely purged and see what the boys have and don't have for winter.

Boy it's cold in here, it was 65 when I got home this morning, but it feels colder than that now, I may have to turn on the heater.

Night.
Me.

How do you...

teach an old dog new tricks? Work was yet again rough. We need so people who know what they are doing, and are willing to do the job that they are bing paid to do with very little to no lip. I will be looking into policies to see what I need to brush up on myself. There are some things that I've been taught how to do the wrong way.

Smiley is sick, he's running a fever again. I will need to call the nurse tomorro and see what they want to do about it. This isn't a huge concern yet, but I found out that he has been exposed to three people who have had and recovered from h1n1. I'm not going to freak out about this, I must protect Sunshine though. He is unable to take any of the flu meds as they either aren't for people with breathing problems or they are penicillin dirivatives. (not sure if I spelled that correctly)

I'm really tired today and if my arm isn't any better by Friday I will see if I can get into the doc myself. I wonder if I've torn my shoulder. The pain isn't always intense, but it isn't going away.

Well I need to go, I want to I want to wash a couple loads of laundry tonight so I can hang it out first thing in the morning.

Toodles.

Wild day..

I was hoping to get off ealy so I could go to the get together tonight. I got a phone call at 9:15ish and it was S asking me to come in early so I could leave early. SURE THING. Even if I had to wear damp clothes, which I did, it would have made a wonderful day. It was busy today, so busy, but for the most part good. A few try to spoil a good day, but I won't let it spoil mine. After work I had so much fun, we got smores and hung out with friends. I think I've found a couple to take the boys when we need a couple of hours to get some things done.

I need to get going, I want to get a few things done before bed.

Toodles...

Crappy day...

I feel like my shoulder is dislocated. It hurts, not as bad as it did last night, but it still aches. The rice pad worked really well, it feels better with rest. I have to work tomorrow and certainly hope that it is more fun that it was today. I certainly wish that I could drop a few packages of midol in the stores water supply. Some days the employees are more rude than the customers. And for the record, I don't want anyone's job, if I did, they'd know it. I'm happy in my current position and I don't intending on making this job a life long adventure. I'm happy that right now I'm getting as many hours as I'd like and happy that I can get the days off that I really need.

Gotta run!

Toodles.

Odd day.

Today seemed to be an odd day. Work was odd, people are cranky, but I'm sure they will get over it. Came home, got the boys ready, Sunshine didn't fight as much as he usually does and at the meeting they wouldn't stop talking, so we went to the back room. After the meeting we stopped for our treat at work and our order was so messed it it wasn't even funny. I had to end up going back in to get a partial refund since we were overcharged and still didn't get the food we were even rang up for. Hum... When we came home we hung out as a family and now I'm cleaning and Duck is doing homework.

On another note the tv ran for 3 days without interruption soley on the power provided by the sun and wind. It is obvious that we need more batteries and need to set the windmill up on a pully system. The solar panel isn't producing as much as I'd like to see, but we have to reset it as well. MJ had it set to power his batteries a different way, since we use the box with it, it needs a blocking diode which will stop the drain on the batteries when there is no sun. We are also working on the solar heaters, I hope that we can get those done soon. I still didn't get the carpet cleaner, I want the wide one and I'm willing to wait.

This is the plans for the next week.

Get the dryer reverted
Get the water system hooked back up
Get the rain barrels delivered
Get the plastic up on the windows
Get the curtains put up.
Get garden pulled and tilled
Get the wood to the basement and the heater
Get JM solar heater built.
Get the wood cut for the beds
Get the carpets cleaned.

Okay well that's a lot for one week, so here goes. I'd like to at least get 1/2 of it done.

Toodles.

a lot done today.

I finished going through the clothes for the most part upstairs. Gave 2.5 bags away to a lady for her son today. I am going through all of our shoes and purging. We need to get the beds taken care of so we can get the boys in them. I've washed and folded all Smiley's new clothes and will put them away. I have a couple loads on my bed to fold and put away tonight. Tomorrow we will get the carpet cleaner and clean the beds, floors, stairs, truck and then the floors again. I wish that we could wait until the last Thur as the local store is closed and usually they let me rent it for free for the second day. All in all....it was a productive day. I need to go through the boys toys and get them purged as well. I think I may try to do it with the boys. I will give them a box and let them pick what they want, then I'll go through them again without them. They have far too many toys and quite frankly, they only really play with the ones downstairs.

Well gotta hop to, I have work tomorrow and want to get this stuff done.

Toodles...
Me.

Drama, drama, drama...

We are never in short of McDrama. I just love to hear the rumors that float around that aren't true. If people can't say tell the truth....they need to keep their mouth shut. All in all while I dropped the ball at the beginning, I learned a very important lesson today, two actually. One is to act quicker and don't forget to ask the questions that no one else is asking. All in all, what go handled must be handled.

Tomorrow I plan on finishing up the laundry, finish changing out the clothes for winter and get the rooms moved around.

I also want to get the wood moved and the heater put in the basement. We want to cut about 30 - 50 cords of wood next summer. That is an obscene amount of wood that will take about 3 or 4 years to season. This should help us a bunch, and we will only need to cut about 5 cords a year to get what we need.

Anyhow, I need to fold some clothes and get ready for tomorrow.

Me.

I'm just trying to see if that worked, that is my Sunshine. He's bigger now, but still looks the same.

I made out a menu for this month. This will hopefully help us eat the food we have and spend less money on eating out. This is in prep to losing and income that helps a lot. Yesterday we spent $15.90 eating out.

Today I've found were the stupid fleas are coming from....time to eliminate the problem. I'm going to steam clean the carpets on Wed, today and tomorrow I'll pepper the area and vacuum a few times. I found out some really gross stats on fleas. They can live for sever weeks or a few months. everday a female flea can lay 50-60 and between 500-600 roughly in her lifetime. They hatch within a week or two depending upon conditions they are in. In my cleaning rage today I found 3 bags of clothes to pass on to others, two to a lady at work and one to a single mom who asked. I also found another bag of clothes for my baby. He's got far too many clothes and I need to make sure I'm pulling out the ones that don't fit. I have been working on laundry and hope to have it all done and put away by Wed. This way we can see what we have and what we need to get rid of. For a family of 4 to have this many clothes is crazy and selfish. Okay gotta run, I need to get some wood cutting done and get some wood done.

Toodles

Eating out costs: 15.90
Grocery costs:$0

Full day...

This morning, we went to the meeting, my husband shaved most of his beard off and looked so nice in his suit. I was so impressed. Then during the meeting, the boys had had enough so we went back to the other room to listen and Sunshine had to go potty. While in there we heard my husband, who has NEVER commented comment. I was so proud. I'm sure that I don't tell him enough how much I appreciate him but I do. I left work early, labor was high and we were dead...so time for me to go. I get home and we are going to work on the house, and hang out. We just got back in from playing outside and surveying the work that needs to be done. Duck was throwing the ball to Sunshine and he was hitting it with the bat, he was doing really well. Well gotta get to it, I want to get some things done before I go to bed tonight which hopefully is earlier than later.

I must remember to get a salad ready for dinner tomorrow, we are going to friends. This is going to be cool!.

Katy