4/15/24

Good morning happy Monday. Although Monday's aren't ever very happy here lol. I need to do like Scott and take off every other one so I can have more time off ;)

Saw this on FB and had to save it. So true haha.

I worked on my 2 quilts yesterday. I realized I cut 8 sets of everything instead of 6. I debated using all 8 sets but that's a lot of backing fabric and batting and then people wouldn't want to pay more so I just pulled out the extras. It's almost enough for another quilt for both of them so I will just add to them I think and make another set.

The fairy one is ready for clipping and it's trip through the washer. Should be able to get that done today!

Pepper steak for dinner with mashed potatoes and zucchini. Yum! I took some ground beef out for dinner tonight I think I'll make tacos if we have enough tortillas left. I'll have to check. If not I'll have to come up with a plan B.

Lots of work emails this morning and a meeting in 9 minutes so that will keep me busy for a little bit. I'll have to go into the office tomorrow and do more letters too. Blech. 

Darts is on Tuesday this week so my social time will get done early in the week.

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4/14/24

Good morning happy Sunday! I wish this was a 3 day weekend! I think I say that every weekend too.

Friday after work I had to go get change for my craft show. While I was out I picked up my prescription from Walgreens (took 2 trips since they keep putting it back before I get there) and then hit the grocery store.

McDonald's has some magnificent bird of paradise plants in their drive through. My neighbor had given me one once but at the time it was too messy for me. I might have to rethink when I get around to landscaping again because they are so fun.

Check out the size of this brisket. Damn it's huge. 

This is $350 worth of groceries all fitting in my little trunk area. So crazy. I did buy a lot of meat though since we were out. As long as we have some meat I can come up with something to cook.

After I got home I went down to watch my friend Carol play darts and get my car show vendor application turned in. I kept forgetting to do that and then couldn't find my app so she brought one down to the kitchen for me.

I spent the rest of the night organizing my craft show stuff. I separated out my zip bags and left a bunch of the duplicate bags at home since I knew it was going to be a small venue.

Of course it was RAINING when I was loading the car in the morning and raining when I unloaded the car at the lodge and raining when I had to load it back up lol. Good thing they had it inside.

When I got there we couldn't find my tables so someone took down their stuff to make me a spot (the wife of the guy running it). Then later she put it back up in a spot where someone didn't show up so that worked out. As I expected it was a bit of a sleeper event. I did make back my booth fee and a little bit more but not really enough to do it again. 

I have 2 8' table cloths and of course one of the ones I brought was not the 8' but a 6' so I just put the quilts out there. All my stuff is still in the car. I'll unload that later. Maybe tomorrow lol. My next show is the car show in 2 weeks so too long to just leave it ALL in there. 

My little guy got his first professional hair cut yesterday. Jess sent me the pictures. I guess he did pretty good with his little tablet to watch while they did it. 

Looking so handsome!

I'm not watching the kids this Sunday (so far haha) so should be a lazy day. Probably will work on my quilts a bit more. The Fairy one is ready for the batting and backing. I think I will get the Unicorn one to that point too then I'll cut all the batting at the same time. That is a bit of a challenge since it is so wide.

Scott made us breakfast and it's ready! Have a great day!

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4/12/24

Good morning happy FriYeah!!

Lots of stuff to do today.

Yesterday I got my 4 squares sewn together for the fairy quilt. Next step is to iron them flat then cut out the batting/backing.

The Unicorn quilt is ready for it's 2nd round on the sewing machine to join the 2 square sets together.

Our team won darts last night by one game. Not because of me though lol. I definitely need to go practice more! Jess brought the baby down at the end to get the diapers I had in my car and hung out for a few minutes. All my hanging out with buddies left so I just came home after.

This morning I went to feed the cats their morning snackies and my new box of food was all disgusting inside. This is the 2nd time I've had this happen. I contacted Amazon and they are sending a new box. I was able to salvage all but 2 cans that were open. Ick. No wonder Simon kept smelling the box lol.

Things to do today:

Pack up Easter so I can put it in the shed when I go out there to look for my craft booth stuff for tomorrow. I only need to take a few things from out there since the show I am doing is inside and they provide the tables and chairs. Lets hope people show up because it's inside AND it's supposed to rain. It's been in the 80's and beautiful the last 2 days.

Also need to put the folding chairs in the shed while I'm at it. 

I want to go through my selling boxes and pick what to take instead of taking everything too. I am not going to take my coaster racks so more stuff will go on the tables. I don't even know what I have since I haven't taken it out since last November! 

I should go to the grocery store too since we don't have any meat left. Last night I had chicken strips and horrible fries from the fryer in the bar while I played darts. 

Work was busy this morning but maybe quieting down now that everyone got done with their morning emails haha.

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4/11/24

Good morning happy Thursday!

Currently caught up with work so we'll see if I get any emails today.

Yesterday my mom came over around one with egg salad, croissants, salad, brownie bites and chips. We figured out her little photo printer and she probably printed out about 20 pictures in 6 hours lol. I don't think it's going to be the answer to printing out her 20,000 pictures on her phone. 

Mom stayed until around 7 then I worked on sewing the first round for these 2 new rag quilts. Next up is ironing them all open.

I got a lot of laundry done yesterday and even washed some of the boys stuff ;) Few more loads to go to get it all done. 

Darts tonight! Guess I'll take a shower at some point today.

 

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4/10/24

Good morning happy hump day!

Made it through a day of work in the office yesterday. I went to the post office on my lunch to drop off a package. I noticed that they do not have ADA compliant doors there. Odd thing to notice but damn them doors are heavy and they have 2 sets of them. How does a federal building get away with that? 

I went through the drive through at the Hawaiian bbq place for lunch and then sat in the break room. Found out a girl at work is pregnant. Not that I really talk to her but that is exciting for her. 

Got home and pinned my new quilt blocks together for their first round of sewing. Then I went to bed lol. Exciting I know. I have frozen burritos for dinner.

Oh I also did some laundry. I picked out all my clothes to wash first. I need to go out and change the laundry. Next is towels. I am not going to wash anyone else's laundry because they sat next to 2 full laundry baskets in the living room for 3 days and didn't bother washing anything. 

And then Scott was surprised when he went to get ready to go to dinner that he didn't have any clean pants. 😀😂😈. This is even more annoying since I had made comments a few days earlier about how I finally got all those clothes in the baby crib put away and hardly any of them were mine... and how it's like I'm being taken advantage of. I resigned from doing anyone else's laundry about 10 years ago and it was the best thing I ever did. If I wash your clothes I'm just being nice but you can't expect me to was them. So now will be a reminder ;)

Too bad I can't do that with dishes too but those gross me out lol.

My mom is bringing us lunch today so I can help her with a new photo printer thing my dad bought her so she can get some pictures off her phone. She has so many pictures on her phone that she can't get any through text message anymore. Almost too much stuff to even get a text. Apparently just deleting the 100000 similar pictures isn't an option. We'll see how this goes when she comes. I'm taking bets on what time she gets here with "lunch". I'm guessing 2pm. 

I'm covering for a gal from another office for the next couple days so we'll see if that makes my work busier. I have a few things to do this morning left over from yesterday still. I'm missing the old way that I used to do things so that everything worked so much smoother. Now that I'm back working with my old office I feel like I should just do all the old stuff I used to do. I know now that is why they mixed up our offices. But the whole set up is stupid to begin with. 

Ok off to clean out my email box and change the laundry!

 

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4/9/24

Hello happy Tuesday from the office. Just a quick post then I have to get to work ;)

Yesterday Scott brought home the china cabinet from his mom's house. We had to move furniture around a bit to find a spot for it to fit. Still need to rehang my picture. Trevor said we can't ever get rid of the picture lol. I tried to give it away once and all the kids were like wth Mom lol. The big couch is now floating in the room so Tubz is super excited to have fresh material to scratch the hell out of.  Still need to find a place to put that little table on the left too. Might end up in the shed for a bit.

I almost got 2 new quilts worth cut out yesterday. Just need about 16 more squares cut for the fairy one.

 

We went to BJ's for Melissa & Eric's dinner last night. We had a big table!

My mom, dad, niece Adrian, nephew Tony and Trevor's friend Chloe came along with my kids.

I got chicken parm for my dinner it was pretty good. Still have a piece in the fridge for later if Trevor doesn't eat it. I told him not to ;)

They got pazookies for a free bday dessert

I told Nate to enjoy getting to come as the only child haha. The other 2 were at their Grandpa's on the other side.

The girls got a margarita flight

At the office today so nothing else will get done. Probably pass out when I get home from having to be social all day lol. Have a good one!

 

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4/8/24

Hello happy Melissa's Birthday Monday!

Melissa is 25 today and her boyfriend will be 28 tomorrow. We're going out to dinner tonight to celebrate.

Last weekend ended up feeling super busy with Jess being sick Friday night and then babysitting for most of the day on Sunday. I could use another day off haha. Lucky for me the work load is light today.

Saturday I got the bicycle quilt done. The lady who lives down the street is buying it for her granddaughter for Christmas. She says she needs one more lol

I started cutting out 2 more quilts. It's such a process to find the matching fabrics why not do 2 at once lol. I have a unicorn and a fairy with babies one that I've been working on picking out and cutting fabrics for. 

Saturday I made the last Hello Fresh meal. 

It was pretty good

Sunday morning I got up and then went over to the kids house to watch them there since it was still kind of early. Only the tiny man was awake at first. He's started smiling now, so cute.

Rosie woke up with bed head lol

Daniel watched movies in his mom's room almost the whole time I was there. He only got into a little bit of mischief in-between all the times I'd check on him.

Little man only took 5 minute naps the whole time I was there until I was sitting in the rocking chair with him and Rosie. They both fell asleep and Daniel decorated me with Buzz and Jesse.  This is how I sat until Jess came home lol. 

Rosie was playing with my phone and put her picture back to the background again. I swear she's a smart little cookie. 

Tonight we will go to dinner. Darts is on Thursday this week so not for a bit. Scott is off today for his Monday off. He's been watching Game of Thrones. He did make us breakfast and took all the dirty clothes out to the garage for me. I hate lugging the big baskets out there. 

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4/6/24

Hello happy Saturday! 

Late start to the day today since I was up late watching the kiddos while there mom was at the hospital with stomach pains. She is feeling better this morning, hopefully she stays that way!

This little guy looks so much like his mommy. 

I almost finished sewing the rows together on this quilt. Hopefully I can get it done today!

I made some progress on putting clothes away that had got tossed into the baby bed. Kind of pissed me off that most of them aren't mine! Might have to go back to just washing my own stuff so I'm not being taken advantage of around here ;) I swear these boys would live in a pig pen full of shit if I wasn't here. 

Let's hope for a nice calm day for today. 

Tomorrow I'm supposed to watch all the kiddos in the morning while Jessica goes to work. Hopefully she is feeling well enough for that.

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4/5/24

Good morning happy FriYeah!!

Plans for the weekend? Just babysitting on Sunday. Maybe I'll finally get this bicycle quilt finished. I just rounded up all the pieces since they got a little bit scattered. I haven't sewn in about a week!

The weather has reverted to winter here. Brr! We had to turn the heater on a few times. Look at the pretty clouds on my way home from work though.

The geese are so confused they were almost all the way to my house. They never come over here.

I did a ton of letters at work yesterday. They were all done so I just has to print them out and put them in envelopes with the forms they needed. Then I got to hear the other other department complain about how people don't turn things in right and all that. Yep. Used to be my job but they gave it to you. Sorry haha.

I went to the "hot plate" Mexican place for lunch. When they bring you your food they say be careful the plate is hot! I think they stick them in the oven for a few minutes. I ate ALL this and then went back to work and tried not to fall asleep for the rest of the day haha.

When I got home I laid on the bed for a couple hours. Trevor went to work so I was all alone it was so nice haha. Hardly ever happens. Well except the animals. I'm never truly alone. 

For dinner we had the 2nd to the last Hello Fresh meal. This one is really similar to another one I've made. The chicken is pretty good but the potatoes could use some gravy or something. 

Mine looks so sad lol.

One meal left for tonight then I need to meal plan and go to the store lol. Or we could just eat the 12 cans of soup Scott bought when he went to the store.

Today I have a project for work that's super boring but at least I have a project. Need to get cracking on that and also doing my time card which is always fun with the 10 codes they want us to use. 

Hopefully the rain is done for a bit. At least we haven't had to turn the AC on yet!

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4/4/24

Good morning happy Thursday! Made it into the office today. Late but made it in. Going to print off some letters in a minute and get that mailing started. 

Yesterday I was busy with the letters all day for work and updating some spreadsheets. 

Then I did our taxes. TG We don't have to pay a bunch this year.  Probably will have to next year since I got a raise though. Should put more money in my TSP but I have to figure out how to do that. 

Also finally paid back a loan I took off my New York Life Insurance like 20 years ago. I think it was for like $1500 and turned into like $4k with all the interest they were charging me for it. So now I officially don't owe anyone anything lol.

Dinner last night.

The pieces of meat are so small. Must be made for senior citizens. I had a bag of salad so made a big bowl of that after I ate this. Then I wasn't hungry lol.

I have two more left and just cancelled my subscription. So I'll have to go back to planning some meals. The meals were starting to get more expensive. This meal is not worth about $30 for the 4 of us. Pretty sure I can do better on my own and not have to stress about where the box got delivered.

Anyhow, did that again for awhile haha.

I'm so tired this morning for some reason. I feel like I slept most of the night. The weather is back to cold today and it is supposed to start raining soon. It was very windy last night. Some how that door in my room didn't blow in again. 

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