a day

A day in the life of me:
-Get up
-Take dog outside (Chad left extra early for work today and she wasn't ready to get up!)
-Clean up in kitchen (just a little)
-Iron pants, get dressed
-Go to grocery store
-Bring home groceries and put awa
-Make lunch
-Go to the JOBster
-Come home and go to bed (I dislike closing the store greatly because I miss out on time with Chad again and again.)

I also went to WallyWorld last night and got another little 5 drawer storage thing to start organizing my crafts a little better. I think I am going to try to make a few things and sell them on Etsy, after I make the purses I already agreed to make for other people. We shall see and I will keep you updated so you can see my shop (and buy things to help support my HobLob habit!).

little red wagon

Sorry, I fell off the blogging wagon this weekend. We were in Columbus and I didn't have my laptop and it isn't worth trying to fit it in with everything else when about 90% of the people who read it are there with me!
We got in really late Friday night, slept in Saturday, I got to hang out with my Jessica and we picked out some fabric for me to make a purse for her. You might get to see that tomorrow.
Hockey game Saturday night...we lost. Bummer.
Sunday we went to Church and had lunch with M and T and then headed back here.
Switched my phone over to Verizon but have no fear, I kept the same number (had it since like 10th grade...not giving it up now!!).
Worked today.
Making a purse tomorrow.
Hopefully joining the YMCA this week and starting some serious working out with my friend A from The Ozark...most excited about getting in the pool and swimming some laps. I need something low impact since I am already using my legs 8 hours a day...they can't take much more than that!
Going to bed. Slept horribly last night, hoping to make up for it tonight.

down below jack

I think my sister is the only person who will get the title reference....a song, by an unknown celtic rock band, Seven Nations. I was going to call this one..."down you go, down below jack, where you never see the skies" but I thought that was too long for a blog title.

Got up, walked the dog, who was barking crazily at our two elderly neighbors who walk every single morning. You would think she would be OK with it by now. Have a ton to do today before we can leave town tonight.
1. Go to work (the most unpleasant AND time consuming..not entirely unpleasant, mind you. Just wish I could get paid for doing what I WANT to do every day. When you find my dream job, let me know.)
2. Go to the Verizon store (I am starting to have panic attacks about switching all my info over to a new phone).
3. Pray for my friend Danielle, who is leaving today to go to Guatemala for about 8 days with Living Water International (a group who builds wells in places who have no access to clean water...check them out at Living Water. You will fall in love too! Watch their promo videos and you might be the one on a plane headed to Guatemala!)
4. Clean out the car (my wonderful fabulous husband might take me to work so he can do this one. IF he gets out of bed in the next 10 minutes. Likely? We will see.)
5. Eat dinner with Jay (who has to go to the Verizon store with us)
6. Pack. Oh yeah. Minor detail.
7. Load car.
8. Drive 3 hours south.
9. Sleep in car (Chad drives, I sleep. It works out great!)
10. Arrive in hometown. See family. Be happy.

I must go "do my face" so I don't scare off the customers at the Hobster.

on the 'morrow

Good morning...
Headed to the HL, Chad is still sleeping, Gwen is up and barking at nothing (the rain? the blessed, wonderful, lovely rain?? Surely not!).
I am making a little pasta to take for lunch, thinking about what I should make for dinner.
Any suggestions?
Someone has a birthday coming up first of next week.
Suggestions?
I have the stuff to make a cake or cupcakes...chocolate cake and the ingredients to make home made icing. Yummy. But since he isn't going to work again until Monday, should I do cupcakes? I am not going to even suggest he takes them to work. He would probably never forgive me (he isn't a fan of his birthday, in case you didn't know that!!).
Still raining so we are planning on a trip to Columbus Friday night...
our local hockey team (who my dad works for) is playing in the division playoffs so we might try to catch a game while we are there. They were literally in the bottom of the league about a month ago but somehow pulled off quite a few wins and went into the playoffs in second place. Hopefully we will see a pretty awesome upset...playoff winning teams sell tickets and that's important to NEXT season.
Headed to the Hobster.
Check out my friend Dani's site...her blog today is dedicated to me...I'm honored!

switcheroo

I closed at the Hobster Lobster tonight and it will be the last time I have to close this week...yippee! I was supposed to close Friday night but one of the other supervisors was nice enough to switch shifts with me so I could open instead...allowing us to leave earlier to head to Columbus for the weekend. We had a ton of rain today and are expecting some more later on this week so we should be good-to-go on heading out of town.
Chad might actually get Thursday and Friday off completely to make up for all the overtime hours he has gotten since last Friday. Keep praying for soggy weather..never thought I would be so thrilled to see rain. Seriously.
We are going to Verizon on Friday afternoon to switch over phones. I have AT&T and I literally do not even get service in our house (ask my friends who try to call and can't get me...unless I am in the bedroom, second floor, standing near the window!).
Chad is on his way home from a friend's house and I have to go eat something because dinner came far too early this afternoon.
Got fabric to make a couple of other purses so I have new projects in store...yippee. My mom just THOUGHT she was getting her sewing machine back.

oh so nice

I woke up to the most amazing and beautiful things this morning...
first, my husband sleeping beside me (not snoring!!), peacefully enjoying his morning off because
second, its raining.
Wonderful, beautiful, fabulous, amazing rain.
Every little droplet a blessing in disguise.
Its hard for a fire to burn in the rain.

Chad is still in bed, working to make up for lost hours over the weekend and earlier this week.
I am done sleeping so I am up, thinking about making him some breakfast.
Fed and walked the d-o-g, in the rain...no complaint from me.
I even looked skyward, into the grey, and said a prayer of thanks.
If it keeps raining, we might even get to go to Columbus for the weekend.
Cross your fingers and toes.

another one

Quiet evening that is.
Just got home from work about 9:15...pretty early closing for me at the HL.
Chad is still not home.
And I still don't know when that will be happening.
If my sweetie is 1/8th as tired as I am, he's exhausted.
I need him to come home.
I haven't even seen his cute face in 48 hours (I was asleep and it was dark when he left this morning.)
Ugh.
I have a healthy appreciation and respect for the following people (among many others): military spouses, emergency response spouses (Fire, EMS, Police, etc), and people who's spouses work out of the country or out of town.
I hate it.

Update: It is now 10:25 and my wonderful, fabulous husband just walked in the door. It is a good thing too because I was pretty close to calling his boss and using unlady-like language in an effort to get him home. He smells like a fire and looks like he just climbed out of a coal mine but he is home! A shower and a good night's sleep and all will be right wih the world. He just informed me that he doesn't have to be at work until noon tomorrow and I don't have to go until 1pm. We're sleeping in!