Trying to get the feeling again…

Just checking in before I go to bed.  Oh, and if you need jammies, Target has them on sale for 50-75%  off.  Hubby got me some for Christmas, wrong size, bless his heart.  So, I took them back today.  $25 jammies for less than $7.00.  They are Nick and Nora’s.  I love jammies so I bought two pair.  I was refunded $45 and spent less than $15 for the new pair.    I love a deal. 

I am tired.  Doing too much, sleeping too little.  Well, not getting quality sleep.  My allergies are kicking in so my ears are draining like mad.  I get this annoying little cough at night.  I am still irrigating my sinuses.  I like it. I have a very clean sinus cavity now. 

Good night.  Sweet dreams and don’t let the bed bugs bite. 

This is what hunger looks like according to WW.  I wish my hunger was this cute!  I love the commercials. 

Now, these past few months, whenever Taco Bell has been mentioned, I have been eating what I want from this fast food mecca.  Now that I am back on WW, I am using my once again found restraint.  I ordered a pintos and cheese and a taco supreme.  I bring the pintos and cheese home and put it on a La Tortillia Factory whole wheat tortillia for a total of 4 points instead of 7 points for the stupid TB burrito.  And I am getting fiberlicious.  And you know what?  I loved what I ate and didn’t feel like a big fat pig after eating it.  Last night I made up some yummy sugar free pudding - chocolate for the hubby and butterscotch for me.  It was very good and satisfying for that sweet tooth. 

Got a call from sister in law on the East coast today.  She and her husband are losing their house.  It’s been bad for awhile and has just gotten worse.  It doesn’t help that they are flippin freezing to death!  I feel guilty enjoying the 70 degree weather here in Central California and having to DRIVE to snow just to visit it and they have it all over the place - 35 inches of it in fact.  We told them they can live with us.  And they can.  They are the only people I have ever known who visit for two weeks and you miss them the minute they leave.  We all get along really well and it will just work out.  God had a reason for Kevin and Laurie finding each other a few years ago.   Billy has grown daughters but it is not an option for some reason for them to live with one of the daughters.  I have never met them but are not impressed by what I have heard.  They always seem to have their hand out for daddy to give them something.  I think he feels guilty about their mom dying or something.   They walk all over him and Laurie in the process.  So, it may be good for them to live in Cali and visit the East coast once a year.  I am just glad that we can be here for them. 

Teaching jobs do not look promising.  Spent all this time in school and it’s a little frustrating some days.  I really want my own room and I really would like to make some money again.  I miss money.  I will really appreciate it when I get it again.

Hubby is home - good night sweet chicks

Which is the title of one of my favorite Depeche Mode songs but it is also what I am doing right now.  Hubby is at work.  We had Athena, our granddaughter, all weekend and her folks came to pick her up about an hour ago.  They went to Reno for the weekend for SIL birthday.  We took Athena to the snow yesterday.  Kevin took the day off.  I made a real snowman.  He was about 4 feet tall.  I am quite proud of my snowguy.   We played for about two hours before we headed home.  But when both Athena and hubby are home it is noisy nonstop.  We came home and Athena and I hit the showers and then she and Kevin watched Star Wars together.  I went and laid down.  Later we all snuggled in our bed and watched Firehouse Dog.  A cute family movie.  Today we played Guitar Hero and watched tv before hubby left for work.  LIke I said, non stop noise.  I love it when it finally quiets down.  I can hear myself breath and hear the kitties playing around.

The snow was beautiful but we had to drive 85 miles before we found some good snow.  It was so peaceful up there I could have taken a nap.   We like to take Athena to the snow at least once a year.  Sometimes we will rent a cabin and stay over.  Next year I want to do a long weekend so I will start searching out some cabins this year.

Food wise I am doing okay.  I could do better.

I am only subbing two days next week so far.

Good night sweet chicks.  I am going to lay down.

Hugs

Here is a cute site I found.  Thought maybe someone else might enjoy it too.  I have a warped sense of humor so who knows —

http://www.everydaypeoplecartoons.com/index.php

I am so tired.  I think I could sleep all day but there are dishes to do, clothes to wash, beds to make, and floors to clean.  Does it ever end?  I need a vacation and yes!  we are finally taking one at the end of April.  Hubby has not been on one in forever.  I don’t think he needs it.  But I do.  We have gone on little trips for 3 or 4 days at a time but Las Vegas and Disneyland are not relaxing destinations.

I have a sore throat today and my nose is stuffy.  We went to an Indian casino with my daughter and her husband yesterday.  I had never been and Kevin had only been one time.  The smoke killed me.  Never again.  I like Lake Tahoe because there is a smoke free casino there and they keep the doors open.  Plus, it is Tahoe and it is beautiful!  I am not much of a gambler but a woman at a machine next to me won $2600 dollars on the penny machine.  It’s not really much of a penny machine because to play it so you can win, it costs $1.50  but I am sure most people are not as anal as I do and figure out how much it really costs to play before they actually do.  Kevin and I came home before the kids and I made grilled cheese sandwiches and oven fries.  Very good.  And not too bad for us.

Today is another day and next week we start Weight Watchers ((WW) again.  We have kept up our memberships and are ready to go back.  I am up about 12 pounds.  I don’t know about the rest but at least I am smaller then I was at this time last year! Finally.  We are all getting geared up to go and actually looking forward to it.  You can only eat all you want for awhile before you realize that it feels better to splurge once in awhile instead of everyday.

Happy Sunday to all of you and may you have a blessed and wonderful week.

Hugs

After clicking around and finally leaving a pathetic plea for Ann to help me, I figured out how to leave a post.  My fault, I know.  That’s what I get for being gone.  A new site and some frustration to go along with it.  What have I been up to? I have no idea but it seems my time alone keeps getting sucked away from me.  I need my alone time to be able to sit and read and write on this blog but the time suckers come and wisk me away to a strange and not so exciting land.  I feel like I am living Groundhog day everyday and not getting a dang thing done.  If you have not seen the movie, Groundhog Day, rent it.  It’s funny and I think we all get stuck in it from time to time…

Still married.  Life is good.  Holdiays went well.  My mom was only mildly annoying only because she is not allowed to be totally annoying.  Hubby is working his butt off.  Lots of overtime but that’s okay.  He is taking care of me, his wife and I can tell he likes it.  I still have no teaching job.  There are none.  But I am hoping with the new administration coming in and maybe if Arnold pulls his head out, I can have a job next school year.  I really want my own classroom and kids.   Oh well, right now I am finishing a huge paper, did I say HUGE paper that is due January 21 so I can file for all of my credentials.  I am thinking of taking one more class so I can have another credential because having three is not enough.  How about 4 credentials and no job.  If I don’t have a job next year, I will take the Masters courses and have a Masters degree, 4 credentials and no job.  LOL!  Oh well.  I do write a mean paper.  I can whip one out like it’s nobody’s  business.   But money would be nice.  My money would just be extra and I have so many things I could do with extra money.  My favorite thing is to pay off bills so there are none.  I think it’s the Libra in me or it’s the being a single mom for 16 years in me.  Not sure.  Whatever the blame is, I love to be debt free.

I have missed you all more than you can imagine.  You have been in my thoughts and I have wondered how you all are.  I was so hoping my blog would not be gone and I were forgotten when I logged on today.   That is the adoptee in me - thinking it is so easy to be discarded and given away.  You all proved me wrong and I thank you for that.

I hope 2009 brings us all the happiness we deserve and takes the burdens off our backs that are bogging us down.

With love, Bobbie