I'm here ladies, just trying to get some work done. Will try to post b4 I leave, but we will have to see how the rest of the day goes.

Luv and Hugs!!

Hi ladies -

My friend Jane and I went to the beach for a couple hours. It was a little cool and breezy, but I got a nice nap in to make up for another night of very little sleep. I'm home now, and doing laundry before I settle in to watch the Packer game.

I had such a nice time yesterday! And this has been a better birthday weekend than I thought it would be....all things considered.

I miss my hubby a lot...and wish I could just talk to him to know where things stand.

Sorry....I don't mean to be a downer. I love you all so much, and am so very grateful for your love and support, and birthday wishes.

Hugs,

Yummmmm... pizza The most decent pizza place up here closed down a while ago.

Had a nice day off. We went into town because DH wanted to get an Italian Beef from the hot dog place across from where I work. I stopped in at the shop and wouldn't you know it, was dead as could be. Why do I get to work the busy days???? Good news is that the frozen yogurt machine is shut down for the season. I will miss the lemon tart tho but will not miss cleaning it. I swear it messes itself up. We stopped up at my cousin's - haven't seen them for about 2 weeks and had a nice visit. Then we went over to the casino. DH made a few bucks, I spent more than I should but still stayed within budget. Funny now that I work so hard for a much smaller paycheck I look at everything with "I have to work x number of hours to pay for this... do I really want it?" I'm still looking for a decent hair salon. Was going to try the Aveda salon in town but they are probably the priciest one in town tho I think I'll get a better hair cut. Might give them one try tho.

I guess Mom is driving my sister crazy (she is recouperating at her house). Came home to a phone message that she is packing her up and driving up to my house tomorrow Ha ha - joke's on her since I'll be working and not home Just kidding. I feel for them both. We'll see if Mom want to come up in a few weeks for a visit. If she waits too much longer she might as well spend Christmas with us Maybe I could convince hubby to get that 12 foot real tree that would fit just nicely with our open ceiling. Heaven knows I have enough decorations for it. Oh wait - sorry Shad, not supposed to be talking about those things quite yet

Michelle - glad you had a good birthday weekend for the most part. Sorry hubby did not call (or maybe he did after you posted) - in any event, probably better to have some time to think as sometimes we get all wired up over something and calm down after a few days - best to have your conversations face to face as difficult as that can be sometimes. Also sorry your beloved Packers lost today (at least I think they did - not paying attention to the game or the update DH whispered to me ) I hope you get some rest tonight so you can be fresh for work tomorrow morning. When is everyone supposed to arrive back from California?

Hi Ellen

Annie - Sassy is soooooooooooooooo cute. She she's part weenie too? It shows in her face - she has more of a dachhound ???? than chihuahua face - geez woman why did you get a mix of the hardest breeds to spell - whatzamadder with lab, boxer, shepard, Hines 57 Anyway love your FB pics. So cute. You have alot of cuteness in your life this year

Mel - I hope those seniors behaved themselves. I have no answers for how to entice them to use the air conditioning as they are faster with excuses (too expensive, don't like the wind blowing on them, it makes noise, yadda yadda). My sister kept telling my Mom she did not want to read in paper about her being found passed out on the floor in a stiffling house. My mom's big on box fans and breezes.

It it so hard to believe that some of you are suffering from the stifling heat. I am sitting here with flannel pjs (tho they are capris) and a robe on. Seems like summer was long ago although I think Wednesday we are supposed to have a last burst of heat. I went into the garden this morning and picked 6 cucumbers, 4 green bell peppers, a whole bowl of grape tomatoes and a bunch of jalapenos and another big bowl of regular tomatoes. I guess I'll make a tomato avocado salsa with the grape tomatoes and another batch of sauce with the regular tomatoes. I really don't like the beefeater ones I got. They are huge and seem to be misshapen. Oh and I am thrilled to see that my arugula (rocket) reseeded itself and I have all these tiny plants coming up. That should do well in the cool weather and we'll be having tasty rocket again. DH likes it with a simple lemon viniagrette.

Anyway I am yawning away so I'd better get to bed. Will at least sleep good with the cold weather and pillows. Night all...

Don't believe this. I forgot to post this morning. I did start but obviously forgot to finish. There you go. I must be getting old.

Time being what it is now, I'll post proper in the morning.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zznight all

MORNING CHICKS

wOKE UP A BIT LATE. NEED TO GET DRESSED AND GO TO THE OFFICE.
BOSS IS COMING IN EARLY & LEAVING EARLY. LOTS TO TELL HER.
YESTERDAY WAS ALMOST A REPEAT OF SATURDAY.
POOR OLD SODS WENT IN & OUT THE FRONT DOOR LIKE THEY WERE JET PROPELLED.
mOST OF THEM CAME HOME AFTER AN IV DRIP.
THEY'RE JUST DEHYDRATED WITH THE HEAT.
NOTHING NEW WITH ME.
HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A GREAT WEEK




LAURA....GLAD YOU HAD SUCH A GOOD TIME.
LOVED THE PICTURE.



ANNIE....I BET SASSY IS GLAD TO HAVE YOU HOME...CURTIS TOO.
HOPE JAKE IS FEELING BETTER BY NOW.




ELLEN....ARE WE WAVING GOODBYE TO YOU FOR WORK?




MICHELLE....I AM GLAD THE GIRLS WERE THERE FOR YOU. JANE TOO.
I KNOW THE FEELING OF NEEDING ANSWERS SO YOU KNOW WHAT DIRECTION YOU'RE GOING IN STAY AS STRONG AS YOU CAN.




HAPPY....READING YOUR POST MADE ME LAUGH AT THE PHONE MESSAGE FROM SIS.
OMG....TOO FRASSING FUNNY.....AND I KNOW THE FEELING!! ROFLMAO
WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT YOUR WEATHER, A FEW TIMES I WENT TO
MY WINDOW & OPENED IT JUST TO MAKE SURE IT WAS STILL HOT HERE!
THIS WEEK WILL BE IN THE 70's & A LITTLE LESS HUMID. SO THEY SAY.
HOPE MOM RECOVERS FAST AND CAN BE ON HER OWN SOON.
IT MUST BE DRIVING HER NUTS TO FACE THE AGIONG PROCESS.
I KNOW I AM NOT LIKING IT MUCH
LAST TIME DR WAS HERE WE SERIOUSLY TALKED ABOUT DENIAL.
YOUR POOR GARDEN WILL JUST FREEZE WHAT IS LEFT SOON.
ARE THE ANIMALS DISAPPEARING NOW?
WATCH OUT FOR HUNGRY BEARS!!!




SHAD.....YOU'RE SO BUSY YOU'LL FORGET TO EAT!
GOING BACK TO WORK WILL BE A BREEZE COMPARED TO THESE ROCKY TASKS!

Good morning Chikies! Nothing much going on today. I may have to drive my mom to the car shop. But I am hoping they took my advice and drove it over yesterday. Need to work on a little laundry, and balance the checkbook, then work tonight. Need lots of sales, with my time off and the holiday this is going to be a very small check! Nothing I can do about it now…will just have to manage.

Ok need to get these kids off…I keep getting the “teenager Huff” from my son, ll I did was tell him to make his bed and keep his door open. LOL I don’t know what I am going too do…pretty soon I will have 3 teenagers!!

Morning,

Happy
Think we're getting some of your cool air this morning. A nice 55 degree's. I'm loving it. The store may have been only while you were there.

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Came to work this morning and some of the furniture was rearranged. Guess the boss is in his rearranging mood again.
Had a nice visit with a couple of cousins this week end. Checked in on a friend who had colon surgery to remove cancer.
More later.

Morning ladies,

Got a quick call from Sis - Mom's back in the hospital again. Wheezing and breathing difficulty. Could be congestive heart failure (hope not), it's also exactly the side effects of the new med they gave her to keep her heart back in rhythm. Sis is mad because Mom was feeling wheezy and short of breath ever since she came home (last FRIDAY) and didn't say anything about it until S woke up at 3am and decided to check on Mom who was up all night stressing out. Wasn't until S asked her what was wrong that she said she thought she should go back to the hospital. OMG. Some prayers would be appreciated. My Dad went through congestive heart failure. It is awful. There's no way she can stay by herself if that's the case. But we will see...

Anyway I can't do personals. Gotta work today and I'm already running late. They depend on me to open up the store now so I can't be late.

Will talk later.

Happy - I'm saying prayers and healing wishes for your Mom.

And sending much love and appreciation to all you wonderful chicks.

I don't feel much like talking/typing. Nothing's new here. Haven't heard from him since a text on Thursday night. His mom has been freaking out trying to reach him. Selfish b*stard hasn't even called her. His sister is keeping DMIL and her stuff in California for the foreseeable future until he and I work things out and our situation is more stable one way or another. She told me to cancel the moving truck, because if we didn't cancel it 24 hours in advance, we're liable for the entire $1,600 fee.

Both DMIL and DSIL believe that I'm blowing this way out of proportion. How can people fall in love via email? How can they fall in love when they live over 2000 miles apart? blah blah blah. It's my inattention and now mistrust that's driving us apart.

Anyway, since he's not driving back, he'll probably stay in CA for the rest of this week. I have no idea when he'll be coming back. If he were a good guy, he'd come back mid-week so we could talk about things....but knowing how much he hates conflict and will do anything including lie to avoid it, I expect he may not get back until Sunday night. I do know that if he doesn't go back to work a week from today, he'll lose his job. Or maybe he's making plans to move back to CA.....I just don't know.

I'm sorry to be a downer. I hate bringing everyone down; you all have your own stuff you're going through. Perhaps I should just stay offline for awhile.

Much love and many hugs,

Morning all. Lovely sunny cool day today and I'm here at work. Boo.

Mel - Sorry your weekend was so frantic with the dehydrated seniors being taken to the hospital. How horrible. If they weren't already sick I imagine you'd just want to shake them and scream at them to drink water and use their bloody AC for Pete's sake!

Shad - Congrats on completing your project. That's a nice improvement. What a pile of rock you had there - and you still have some left. Will you have to move it elsewhere until you find a use for it??

Michelle - Huh, rather irresponsible behavior on your hub's part, and then to have insult on top of injury with your in-laws' opinions re this situation. Might be time to build up a good strong rage. No, that wouldn't be productive right now. Better this - hope you've gotten enough rest & are ready to go back to work. Hopefully you can focus and benefit from the distraction of it. It must be so hard to be in this limbo right now, but you can get through this, I know you can!! Don't stay offline if you don't want to - we're here for you!

Happy - Glad your mother's procedure went well and without complication, but I'm sorry to hear that her new med has been causing her problems (sure hope it's not congestive heart failure!). I will send some good thoughts that this gets straightened out quickly. Glad you had a pleasant Sunday, hope your workweek is a calm one.

Ceejay - Glad you're enjoying some cooler weather down south. My mum is also enjoying it, and today she's going to the Japanese garden in Springfield.

Ellen - Sounds like a nice calm day - once you get the kids off to school, that is. Oh, teenagers - that's scary!

Hellos to Annie, Patty & Mary.
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Nothing much to report. Had a lazy day yesterday. Went to return bf's mum's car to her and on the way back, we stopped at a church festival because we saw a petting zoo - little goats, a llama (alpaca??), a bull (!), a porcupine (not part of the petting, he was in a pen by himself). Then there were some classic cars there too, so of course we had to check those out (I'd have thought bf had enough of that the day before, but no).

Rest of the day was uneventful. I did a load of laundry in the evening and of course forgot to hang it to dry. I'll probably have to run it through another rinse cycle to get the wrinkles out...

I found the papers I'd been looking for - all in a labeled file folder in the office, but way at the back of a box of files, so I missed the first two times I went through them. Third time's a charm! I'm relieved about that and hopefully it has the info I need.

That's about it for me, so I'll post and get on with the day. I think this is the last day the boss is in the office for the week, or it might be that she'll be in tomorrow but occupied with a visitor all day, and then on Wed she'll be out for the rest of the week and part of next. Anyway, today might be a flurry of hurrying to finish up outstandings...we'll see.

TTFN!

Laura - So cool about the petting zoo. I love those! And I've pet porcupines...they're actually pretty soft as long as you pet with the grain and not against it. I had a funny thought about the porcupine....not sure I'd need to see one because I've got a big enough prick in my life right now. My feelings toward him range from rage and disgust and betrayal to love, and remorse at what I've done/didn't do to contribute to the situation, etc. This limbo sucks.

GOod Morning All...

Took me all day to get in here. I tell you this work internet is awful. So stinkin' slow it times everything out. Anyway...

Didn't do much yesterday. Curtis had to go to one of his Walmarts and pull up bread. (Put it out from the back). So I did a bit of grocery shopping. Only spent 52 bucks on stuff I THOUGHT I needed at the time. lol. Lazed around all afternoon with C and Sas watching football games. Altho C and S slept through most of the boring Colts game.

Sassy did miss me a bunch and just loved and loved on me Saturday night. She will probably be mad as this is the first full day she has had to stay home by herself. I hate it and it breaks my heart. Might try to work something out with sissy for day time care for her.

LAURA...congrats on da bears win over the Colts. Bears are my second favorite as is the Broncos (Peyton), and Green Bay. Thanks again for the lovely Saturday.

CHELLE...you are not bringing me down at all. I just feel for you tho as I have lived through infidelity and stayed and additional 8 years because of the kids and false hopes and promises from the idiot. I finally decided to live for me and pick myself up and go, so I went, and now look life is so much better. Do what YOU need to do, just don't waste precious time on his selfish ways. THe answer is right in front of you. No contact pretty much says a lot. No matter what you did or didn't do does not warrent his actions. hugs xoxo

HAPPY...OMGoodness...prayers for your momma and family. Healing prayers! Not supposed to go into work when you are not scheduled to go into work. You are as bad as I am when I worked at CVS. Silly Sister.

CEEG...don't close your eyes when you walk through the rearranged office, you might trip yourself up and get hurt.

MELLIE...sounds like the seniors just get bored and act out. Maybe they need the rolling pin action on their heads.

ELLEN...I love how you say nothing new or going on..then go into this paragraph of this and that about kids, work, mom, DH...etc. What a hoot!

SHAD...all the yard work you are doing it is no wonder you cannot remember to post and ready to hit the hay...hope you slept well.

That is about it for me! Hello to all. Have a great day/night.

Loves and HUgs

Laura
I like petting zoo's. glad the porcupine was in a cage by itself.

Michelle
Hugs.

Annie
Sassy is so adorable.

Happy
Sending you mom good vibes.

Shad
I like what you've done in the yard. Do you have any more projects line up.

Mel and Ellen

I have had a busy morning. I'm tired and want to go home.

Morning all,
Slept in this morning. Actually I woke up at the normal time - bladder time - and then went back to bed and to sleep. So I am running behind the 8 ball today although I haven't got a great list lined up yet. Might just run the duster and sweeper around the house and get on with the wardrobe until the sun goes off the vege garden and then I can get on with getting that fertilised and new area ready to get the poor little seedling plants bedded in.

Michelle - no need to disappear off the thread. You need outlets to rant and rave at this time. Personally I think I would hold onto my anger, change the locks and get on with living my life and making the best of it for me. Doesn't appear that any of his family are going to make it easier for you either.

Happy - We may end up turning you into a day fowl rather than a night owl with this opening of the shop. My friend the lolly shop keeper! Don't mind a bit of fresh popcorn myself, however once it gets cold, I am no longer interested.

Annie - You must have the biggest heart in town, just gets bigger the more you have to love. Enjoy the dog. I loved the picture of her in a bun, but what happened to the onions, sauce and mustard?

Ellen - have you made plans for when the kids grow up and go off on their own life journeys? Will you then don the slippers and pass out in the armchair?

Ceejay - yes I have several more projects lined up. But at the moment, I have to forget the two I was going to tackle next until I get the crushed bricks inside the yard and moved to a permanent position. I was hoping not to have to dig for a while, but now I will make a start on the other side of the driveway and put in some drainage and weed mat there and do some more to the garden that DS2 and I started building so long ago. That will work in with the gravel as well.

Laura - sounds like you had a good time with the girls over the weekend. I like the petting zoos as well but only as long as they are well supervised. Some of the kids get a little 'excited' over the little animals and do not behave very well. They need to have a few facts of life 'explained' to them. Having said that, many parents are actually very good with them and the pets. I should not denounce the entire human population even if I wouldn't mind getting rid of about half of them.

Mel - you and me both got up late this morning. Ha Ha But you have more excuse than me. All those alarms. Seems like you should have put revolving doors in rather than sliding doors in the foyer.

Speaking of alarms. I got a text message on my phone last night to tell me that I had won 900,000 British pounds because my number got pulled out of a hat (yeah right) and they needed my details. Funnily enough they even asked for my phone number (didn't they just pull it out of a hat?). So I checked out the number from which the call had come and low and behold it comes from one of the African States. Just another hoax now coming to your phone. No doubt some poor idiot will be stupid enough to answer it. Do not acknowledge it, if one should land up on your phone. Just a friendly warning.

Okay, better get into some clothes, dust, sweep and take all the crap out of the wardrobe and get rid of some of it. Then onto the vege garden and then plan out some drainage along the driveway and path. Back later.

hi everyone -

I heard from him. He didn't have signal in Yosemite....which is true the signal can be spotty. They didn't have sex, and I believe that too. She spent the weekend talking with him and convincing him that he should work on our marriage. And knowing her...I do believe that.

Anyway, we agreed we have a lot to discuss when he gets home. DMIL will not be moving in with us now, and maybe not ever. Probably for the best at least until we know if our marriage will work. He and I need some time to talk and work things out...and if we can save our marriage, great. If not...then we move on with life.

I know you all might be thinking I'm too gullible or delusional...but really I'm not. I believe what he told me about this weekend...because I know what the woman is like. Anyway, I believe him. He's going to try and get home as soon as he can. Hopefully, the ticket won't cost him thousands of dollars.

As I said...he and I have a lot to discuss, and hopefully we can do so honestly and in a civil manner.

I'm not being delusional. I'm being realistic. And I'm willing to work on our marriage if he is.

Love and hugs,