We move the clocks this weekend?!? Thanks for the reminder!! Glad to have that extra hour tomorrow morning.
I was up early today, at the grocery store early, had a huge to-do list I wanted to get thru today. I got most of it done. Hoping to relax a little tomorrow before the craziness starts next week!!

DS has been acting so crazy lately because of the Halloween candy. He doesn't do well with food coloring. I made a deal with the kids last night. They could trick-or-treat all they wanted. Then today, we spread all the candy out on the table, they each got to pick a few pieces to enjoy after dinners, etc. And the rest we were going to throw out! Yep, throw it out. In return, I promised them that they could go to Target and pick out a small toy. They were happy to throw it out. And I was happy to see it go!! I think I am going to remember this for next year too!!

Lisa - you guys make a sweet family. Tom is so tall!! Christmas already?!? We saw the trees today at the store and my DS wanted to come home and put ours up. NO WAY! We do that the week of Thanksgiving.

Need to get back to work. Happy Nov 1st!

Sitting here, enjoying Frank Sinatra singing Christmas tunes, sipping my herbal Candy Cane Lane tea, smelling my Christmas Wreath candle, watching Tommy put together the Christmas tree, and watching Little Guy bounce off the walls and ceiling from eating Halloween candy.

Life is grand.

I'm here validating our applications after the time change. Two environments done and I'm waiting for them to finish the last one so I can go back to bed.

I didn't get my hedges done. My pruning shears just weren't going to handle the size of the branches so I called a friend and he's supposed to bring over a saw today (Sunday). I did spend hours catching up with the weeds/grass growing in the back where it shouldn't be growing and my wrist is sore from that.

Good morning all. So despite our moderators reminder to set our clocks back, guess who's alarm clock says 6:45 instead of 5;30! Puppies were not going to let me sleep longer, and the puppy actually is an escape artist! He got out of his crate last night!

So sis was over yesterday and we went through my closet and dresser. I dumped almost everything in my closets due to being too big! It's amazing what found its way into my closet that I never wore due to being given to me! Anyway, thats all bagged up and ready to go. I only wish I knew someone in those sizes because there's some REAL nice things in there!

We headed out to Waterloo to the mall out there. I've been out there twice, once earlier this year and again last night. I swear that is the worlds shortest shopping history for me! I walked into Van Heusen and found four nice shirts that can go dressy or casual and two cameos on sale for 60% off. We then took the coupon for Bass they gave us and headed over there, and I found two pair of dress pants (yes, 14P.... it's offficial!) and a pair of shoes. their sale was 25% off and an additional 40% off that! That only took an hour between trying everything on in both stores and cashing out! (the time taker was trying things on).

We then walked around where my sis found shirts and shorts for as low as .99 for the kids, and $5 for dear hubby.

Gotta love outlets!

Anyway, today I MUST get the dogs out for a walk, and finish tidying up the house before starting work tomorrow! I'm excited, yet scared! I sure hope I didn't bite off more than I can chew with this one!

I pray you all have a great day!
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Lisa, didn't you skip right over Thanksgiving??????????????? .

Been awake for a while planning my today. Got absolutely no outside work done yesterday morning as I was interrupted by visitors both times I picked up the rake. I should have got two out of the barn.

The quilting class was great and I ended up teaching two of the new folks. Came home to another visitor in my lane and ended up sipping tea instead of raking. Everybody seems to think I need company!

Maybe this afternoon I'll get something done - after 10:30 Church followed by a lunch with the Bishop. Sure have been seeing a lot of that guy lately!
After lunch I will come home, change and try to get in a couple of hours outside - this is getting silly!

Have a good day and don't freak when it gets dark earlier! Don't forget the pets and their tummies don't know about the time change so feed them a bit earlier.

Good morning Chickies,

RUTH, one day soon you'll have to teach me how to quilt. I hope you can get your outside work finished today, but isn't it nice that so many people care about you? I promise not to freak when it gets dark earlier, but I won't be too happy about it.

LORIANN, sounds like you had a great shopping adventure yesterday and saved a lot of $$$ with those sales, too!

Monica and Eric came out yesterday, and we had a nice visit. Eric is enjoying a short hiatus between shows right now, and it was so nice to be able to enjoy a relaxing meal with him. He's so much fun! Carley brought her overnight bag and was excited to stay over. She's still sleeping right now, but she told Grandpop last night that she wanted pancakes and sausage at Cracker Barrel for breakfast.

After breakfast I want to go to Target and Lowe's, and also a quick stop at BJ's, but I can't remember what I wanted to get in there? I should think about what to make for supper tonight, too, since all the kids will probably be here.

Hey everyone...just doing my weekly check in!!

Went down to New Orleans yesterday to visit the old cemeteries for Feast of All Saints day, then went to the Quarter and had a lot of fun taking pics. I also "cheated" and had 1/2 of an eclair....they are outstanding at this particular place, so I considered it my over the top "cheat" for a while. All in all a great day!
At the end of the album, check out the "skinny" girl in the reflection of the red windows. Thanks, SB!!!!!!!

Lisa, I'm laughing at your Christmasy-ness! We always had a no-decorations-before-Thanksgiving rule at home and DH and I still stick to that! He is pretty adament about no music either. This year I am not sure we're going to put up a tree even...Libbie's pack-n-play is where our tree usually goes! And in our miniscule house there aren't any other choices really. We will put up other decorations, though, definitely!

Thanks for all the compliments on the baby. I think she's the cutest thing ever. I can barely stand it!!

Good morning everyone! I had forgotten about the time change and almost had a stroke this morning until I looked at my cell phone and realized that we gained an hour. Whew!

Don't be sad, Lori. We'll still celebrate Thanksgiving. We all give thanks for what we've been blessed with daily, so Thanksgiving is just basically "Day of Being Tempted to Eat Far Too Much and Make Yourself Sick" to us. I think we're going down south for Thanksgiving and spending Christmas up here this year. I work Christmas Eve, and I think we need to be here when Santa comes and puts presents under the tree, personally. There's nothing more exciting than waking up Christmas Morning and opening everything Santa left. Who wants to wait 2 days to come home and see what he left?

So I've figured out that Tom needs to wait until Christmas Eve to do his Christmas shopping. He's given me two of my presents already! We're calling 1 of them an early anniversary present (our anniversary is 11/23.) He got me a reaaaallllyyy soft robe from Bath & Body Works as the early Christmas gift, and a white gold claddagh ring (that's the anniversary one.) I just got it back from being sized yesterday so I'm really excited. I attached a picture.

Well, I need to find some breakfast. Hope everyone has a great day!

Lisa

Good morning all! The pups don't understand the whole time change thing and were begging to be taken down this morning at 6:15. I'd forgotten the whole retraining that goes on with them for the first week or so. Oh, well...gives me time to get some things done before church.

Ruth - Sound like you're going to get your to-do list written and crossed off today. Good luck with that!

Cottage - Don't you just love spending time with your family! I hope you have a great day getting all your errands completed.

Cat - Good to see you here this morning. Looks like you had a great time yesterday!

Jessie - I'm with you and the no Christmas til after Thanksgiving rule. Make me anticipate Christmas that much more!!!! How fun for you this year!

Lisa - Sounds like your dh likes to spoil you. The robe sounds delightful and the ring is beautiful. And I totally agree with you on being home for Christmas eve. To wake up to your own tree and such is the best!!!

Me - The Opera was fantastic last night. Great show, great music and so much fun. We laughed a lot! Went out with our friend who's in the show and his girlfriend late last night. I was bad and had a brownie. I feel like I'm starting to sabotage....I don't know what it is.....I'm really going to work on it this week doing my best to stay on plan. I've got to re-focus.
Looking forward to a great show today after church. Then it'll be time to come home and prepare for the week. I've got some oatmeal bars to make for breakfast.
Have a lovely Sunday, everyone!!!
Blessings!

I wish I could say our daylight savings time testing went well but we ran into a problem, pulled ten or so people out of their sleep and tested and debugged. After 6 hours or so the problem went away. There is no way I can get back to sleep now so I'm going to go take a shower.

I did get about 3 hours sleep so maybe I can get more tonight. I hope so since my primary oncall starts tomorrow and that is when I usually get paged around the clock.

Good morning everyone,

I am a bit groggy as I slept an extra hour hehe. Needed it though.

We are off to church in a few- then see if we can get some clearance fall clothes for kids- though we are going to Branson next weekend for Veterans Day.-- If you know any Veterans Branson does them right for Veterans week-Free shows plus lots of discounts- we went last year and it was alot of fun.

Yesterday DS Football team lost the playoffs but I am okay with that because then he came come with us to Branson- if they had won he would have had to stay home.

Barb- glad that you got the time change bug figured out- I hope everything went well at my work- I didn't have to go in for

Everyone else, hope you have a nice Sunday

The ocean was beautiful and blue and sunny and cold but we loved every minute. I am trying to adjust to the cold and keep active because the weight loss has made me a lot more susceptible to being cold. My goal is to be outside and bundled enough to be warm without bundling so much that I can't move
I got a nice long walk in and DP took lots of new photos. She got tired so we are home early. That's probably a good thing because I still have laundry to do!

Now to catch-up on email and posts and facebook silliness

Find the owl:

hi everyone!

Lisa- you're making me antsy for Christmas! dh told me no way- thanksgiving is when we put that mess up! and he is right, I would just end up fixing the tree for an extra month everyday since our kitties don't know how to stay out of it!
Cat- your pictures loo great! looks like a lot of fun- and I saw the skinny girl in there!
heather- I am in sabotage mode too, working on that first thing in the morning! after my beer-cheese soup for dinner...lol
ruth- sometime i am going to learn to quilt!!! glad you had fun!
Lori- wtg cleaning out your stuff and finding good bargains!
Cottage- sound like a good time with the kiddos!
Jesse- maybe you could do a tabletop tree if you don't want to put up a big one, when we were in the apartment last year I used one of those super skinny trees and put it out of the way, but it was so small it wasn't in the way!
Jenski- good idea for getting rid of the candy- toys are more fun anyway!
Pearl- hope you found some good deals!
Barb- hope you can get some sleep soon!~
Cyndi- glad you had a good time! love walking on the beach!


For me, as stated before am not doing so well... drank too much last night and am paying for it today. food has been whatever sounds good today so i had a baked potato(gasp) yikes. back on track 100% tomorrow. making beer cheese soup for dinner and will probably have a ww roll with that... ugh- i don't know why I freakin drank so much. i planned to have a couple glasses of wine and it turned into a 6pack of beer and lots of wine. I know better-so, back to p1 and no drinking for me!!!!!

sorry, I lost my last post so will make it short.
Loriann - good luck tomorrow, don't be nervous. You know you are the best candidate.
Good day today, DH is feeling better so its a low fat diet till surgery. I went for a nice long walk along Lake Ontario today. It was cold but so nice to be out.
Everyone have a nice evening.
sophie.