12/21/24

Hello happy Saturday!

It appears they have passed another continuing resolution so no furlough. Also at the last minute before I was done working yesterday they said we'd be exempt so that was fun. Too bad they didn't say that in the beginning so we didn't have to stress. 

I watched the kids yesterday while Jess worked. We started at their house until everyone was awake and then moved over to mine. Nate Man was up first of course.  We had fun playing before everyone else woke up.

Hugs for sister!

When we were Christmas shopping I bought some games and playdough to play with the kids so we aren't just watching screens the whole time. 

Hungry Hungry hippos he didn't quite get the concept yet. One Hippo got decapitated but luckily he just needed to be reattached and is as good as new.

Fishing game. Difficulty level too hard almost for me. He loved just having it spin around with no fish in it though. Weird lol. Like a white noise?

Playdough! Great fun. Only mixed two colors so far. 

Uncle Trevor and Nate Man playing

I made a version of this ranch pork chops last night. I had some ranch dry mix I had made awhile back so just used that and the potatoes were so good I had to keep telling myself to stop eating them. The pork chops were good too.

I was awake at like 3:30am this morning with Scott breathing germs in my direction. I can't complain too much though since I'm usually the one doing that. I've been stressing myself out thinking I'm getting a fever over and over but I'm fine lol. Probably show up on Christmas Eve or something. That's how my luck goes. 

Today's plan is to go to the store and go by my work to get a few things I had shipped there. Also have to mail off these packages from my fabric selling. Debating on being done with that or working on it some more. I think I should keep going since I have so much stuff I really need to clean a lot out. It takes a lot of time though. The kids are coming over again tomorrow so today I definitely have to go to the store. We went through 4 of the little pizzas I buy for them yesterday with only one left so have to restock the kid food lol.

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12/19/24

Hello happy Thursday!

Scott went to work today so we'll see if he makes it all day. So far I just have my usual allergic to winter running stuffy nose. Still praying I don't get his germs. He coughed in my face once last night so if I'm going to get it that will do it lol.

Dinner last night, I used 1/2 the pepper, could have used 1/4 of the pepper I think and still got the same idea. It was good though. 

 

I got all but one present wrapped yesterday (found the other later) and made huge progress on my fabric mess hoarding area. I got all these fabrics I had in a laundry basket to iron put away finally.

I just need to sell what I have in my huge sale pile now. It is the listed and unsold pile. Hopefully I can get it sold by marking it down some more.

We have started getting emails at work about possible shutdown. Thanks Leon!! Merry Christmas. TG I have savings. Although last time they said we were essential so we'll see.

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12/18/24

Hello happy hump day!

I think I'm almost ready to wrap some Christmas presents. I thought of somewhere to put them until Christmas. I need to get them out of my sewing room so I stop tripping on them.

Simon helping me make the bed last night. She's such a great helper.

Last night's dinner. My stomach didn't like the pasta I think. I sounded like a deflating balloon for a few hours after ;) It tasted good though!

Scott is home sick AGAIN today. I'm being paranoid thinking I'm getting whatever he has. He took a covid test and it was negative. He says he feels like poo but he doesn't have a fever anymore so that is good. Just some congestion and a head ache I guess. He like never stays home unless he's dying. 

I got another fabric sales post up yesterday and a bunch of that sold so that was good! I have one large overflowing box of leftover unsold stuff. Going to relist things a bit lower as I go. The group I sell on you can only have 5 posts up at a time so I'll just take the oldest post and repost that stuff in a new one with lower prices. Sometimes it works!

I have  couple people I'm waiting to get paid from but not too bad. Trevor took the larger packages to the post office for me so I won't have to go to town. The others I can put in our outgoing box. No house pick ups here in the sticks.

Jess asked me to babysit later but I told her it would have to be at her house since Scott is sick. And that hopefully I'm not next. Please pray for me I really don't want to get sick. I'm 2 Emergen-C packets in today already. 

Work appears to be dead. I had like 2 things to do so far today. Starting Jan 27th we have to all work in the office every Monday. Lame. But I know eventually it will be every day with the Rump Leon admin. Fun :( 

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12/17/24

Hello it's Tuesday again! One week til Christmas Eve. So crazy. 

Saturday and Sunday we did some Christmas shopping. I feel like Sunday was more errands for Scott than shopping and then he was tired. Monday he came home with a fever and now he's home today too but no fever so hopefully he goes to work tomorrow. Please pray that Trevor and I do not get a fever. I don't have time for that. 

Sunset from the Wally World parking lot. The clouds looked so cool in person with the bright pink over them.

There was a ton of tumbleweeds all over the road on our way to town.

Sick man with some furry comforting laying in front of the wall heater. I don't know how he does that I'd combust after 5 minutes. 

I made stew and cornbread last night. So yummy.

I've been trying to get another fabric sale post up but have mostly just been cleaning up a bunch of fabric off my huge pile. Along with misc stuff that's got thrown on it. This is the junk room too when there is no where to put something so I end up with a lot of junk in here. Also Christmas presents to wrap. I can't really put them under the tree yet because the kids will be here at least 2x before Christmas and I know they won't be able to stay out of them. I think I might wrap them then put them in a trash bag for easy moving around later lol.

Well that's all I have for now. Double pray no fevers for me!

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12/14/24

Hello happy Saturday!

I'm a bit behind!

It's storming here and I was awake around 6 listening to the wind blow against the POS door in my room lol. Then I got up and took a shower and went to turn the heater on but the pilot light had went out. Scott got it lit again though!

I thought this cabbage looked cool when I cut it the other day. Probably a sign it was on it's way out but it was fine.

I made this egg roll soup with it. It was pretty good. 

This was a chicken enchilada casserole that I forgot to add corn to. I also didn't really cook it the way the recipe said since it didn't seem like the bell peppers and onions would have got cooked very well just mixed with everything in the oven. It was "ok" lol.

Last night I cooked a whole chicken cut up and potatoes. Today I need to go to the store because we are out of most things. I guess I'll make a menu to go with it too. I'm proud of myself I actually cooked EVERYTHING I had bought for last time. 

I've been working on selling fabric and sewing stuff to clean up my room. I've sold quite a bit of what I've posted on the FB group so that is great! It's just time consuming getting it listed then doing Paypal invoices and then packing it up and all that. I still have tons more I could list. 

Trevor put up the Christmas tree. We need to get a new star ours is broken and some garland since I tossed that last year (it was sad looking)

Do you see Tina under there? She's so fat she looks like a box I've been thinking about getting those timed feeders for the cats. I wonder if that would help lol.

Simon being cute

The kids came over and were like WOOOOWWWW. They have a tree with no ornaments on it this year lol.

Contemplating what ornaments to steal off the tree

Santa got swiped for awhile, he looks like he's herding all the animals just right

My mom came over and brought him his own animal tree. He promptly took them all off lol. 

Snuggling with Nate. She refused to look up because "she has 3 chins". I'm like no one cares sheesh. 

Nate stood up on the outside of the walker. I had to fix his pants real quick and then he just sat down. Won't be long til he's walking!

Rosie and Ms Rachel took a nap

My mom picked up Panda on the way over for us. The kids like that. I trimmed the back of her hair and she brought me some Christmas plates to borrow for Christmas dinner. 

Today I have to pack up the stuff I sold last night/this morning and then make a menu. Run by the post office to drop off my bigger package and hit the grocery store. Maybe do some Christmas shopping too. I wanted to go test drive some cars but probably won't happen with this crappy weather. Although maybe I'd get a better deal if it's raining ;)

 

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12/11/24

Hello happy hump day! How do you like my vintage frogs?

 They are hilarious.

This box has extra eye balls in it. The postage says 1989 so they aren't as old as I was thinking they were. No idea who Ruth is/was and how my mom ended up with these.

Look at my cuddle buddies, so cute!

Last night's dinner. More turkey pot pie with the biscuits and some sweet potato pie I had in the freezer. It doesn't look all that great but it was delicious! Trevor finished off the last of the turkey I thawed out and was going to have a sandwich with today. Darn kid beat me to it. That raps up Turkey 2024.

This morning I had to call the auto insurance since they were going to be charging me $150 more PER MONTH for insurance. 3 of our vehicles have or are close to 300K miles and the rest are in the 100-200k range so wth? I called and updated all the miles and now it's $100 less than last year. Wohoo. Works for me.

I had darts last night and we won 4 to 3 no thanks to me! Darts again tomorrow for a make up game.

Today's plan I think I will try to sell some stuff on a FB destashing group. My sewing room is going to swallow me whole soon it is so over full. My mom brought over a bunch of stuff and a lot of it is still out in her little camping trailer in the back yard. Time to get busy! Hopefully people will buy some stuff so I can get it out of here.

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12/10/24

Hello happy Tuesday!

Apparently I never got around to posting yesterday. 

Sunday the kids came over to play. Grandpa got some TV cuddle time in with Daniel. He hasn't done that in awhile.

I made this homemade hamburger helper for dinner. Mine looks nothing like their picture lol 

The two older kids wouldn't even touch it but Nate had some.

I made a bunch of scrappy gift card stocking holders from my misc leftover scrap squares. I like the ones from the string blocks. I was thinking these would be fun with sports teams for next year's craft booth. They are really quick to make.

Last night I made this Steak & Cheese meal. It was kind of similar to the Pepper Steak I make. I made a few substitutions since I didn't have any brandy or Provolone. It still turned out pretty good though. 

My mom has been going through a lot of her stuff and she brought a bunch of sewing related stuff here. There was a bag with these 2 unfinished frogs in it. They were hand sewn and just needed the feet (and better stitching) added. I sewed around the edges with the sewing machine and attached the feet. I couldn't find my stuffing though so I have to do that still. My mom reminded me that she brought me a bunch and it was out in her trailer so I can finish them up tonight. They are goofy but Scott has a similar frog someone made him when he was a baby so I got a kick out of them. My mom didn't know who had made these just that they came with all the grandma's stuff.

Lucy climbed into Snookie's bed with her this morning. So cute! They stayed like that for a long time until I had to get up and step over them to get out of the room. 

Tonight I have darts. Coughing a bit so probably take some cough meds before I got down there. I'm pretty sure we've all had these three viruses around here by now.

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12/8/24

Good morning happy Sunday!

I am sick AGAIN. How many colds can one person get? 

Three so far since the end of October. 

AND I've been drinking 2 packs of Emergen C a day the whole time.  

Maybe it would have been worse without it?

Today would have been my father in laws 96th birthday. I miss the old guy! 

Yesterday I got up early and went to my craft show.

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It was foggy as shit and I white knuckled it all the way there. It was even foggy in town. 

This church is so cute inside. A lot of people came and set up the night before. When the girl next to me with that huge display thing came she was upset that there wasn't enough room for people to walk around her display. Like, sorry? Too bad for you lol. I couldn't put a lot of my stuff out since there wasn't enough room either.  

This event ended up being a bit of a sleeper but I still make a small profit so it was ok. I need to really bring something to do when I go to these things. Some kind of handwork I can just set down. I used to crochet or make yo-yo's. Might have to do that again if I'm going to be doing more shows.

This other lady had some great display things. Loved this that she had her bags hanging on. She said it was from Amazon. She was such a nice lady.

She said someone made this for her for her blankets. 

I hope she sold some stuff. The girl behind me didn't even make enough to cover her booth fee ($45) until right before it was over. I think a lot of people didn't sell anything. I only bought a cup of soup and some cookies lol. 

Last night I went through and inventoried all my stuff again. I'm finally down to under 300 cup cozies after giving them away for 4/$1.00 for a few shows. I didn't have them out yesterday since I didn't have enough room but I had a couple people ask me about them so they shopped behind the table. I was able to put them into a smaller box now so that is good!

I don't have anymore craft shows booked so that is probably it for holiday stuff! I thought about putting my stuff out next weekend but it's supposed to rain again.

The kids are supposed to come over this afternoon/evening while Jess works. Hopefully this cold is the one they had so they don't get another one. Scott came home sick the other day so we don't know which virus is which lol.

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12/6/24

Good morning happy FriYeah!

It's kind of cold this morning I had to go get some socks on lol.

Last night I finished up the coasters I was working on and got them all packaged up. I just need to add price tags but I think I might be out.

I made enchiladas with ground beef and black beans for dinner last night. I may have got another one. 

I was going to be babysitting today but the kids were sleeping in a bit so they aren't here yet. Jess just said the cook at the restaurant just quit and left so she might not be working today after all. Hopefully they can get the other cook to come in so she doesn't lose out on money.

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12/5/24

Hello happy Thursday!

Haven't done much the last few days but work and sew Christmas fabric scraps lol. Oh and I made dinner the last two nights so yeah me. 

Coasters and misc squares sewn together

Kung Pao Chicken, a favorite

Chicken & Potato Casserole everyone likes this one

The kids are coming over tomorrow while Jess works then I have darts. Saturday bright and early is the craft show, which they said they have room for me inside now so that will be warmer!

Yesterday I went with Jess to take the kids to the doctor. Two out of three had ear infections and the baby got meds for his cough too. Hopefully they start feeling better!

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