The Weekend Is Here Already!

Saturday, May 14th, 2011 at 1:41 pm  
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I knew this week was going to fly by and man, it sure did! I was SO busy every day that it barely felt like I had a week off. I was running around doing stuff all week long! I have been very busy helping Joe figure out how to make good hacky sacks and we have yet to really make any good ones but we are going to keep at it until we make some really good ones. I think I found a pattern for a crocheted hacky sack but I need at size 7 steel crochet hook but I have to run to Ashtabula for that.

Our van is in Erie with a flat tire so I can’t go anywhere today. I was going to go get the hook, go to Dan’s 16th birthday party and get Joe’s friends and come back home. We also have our bowling banquet tonight but I don’t know if we’ll make it now. I think we have a tire here for it someplace. The spare is stuck under the van and won’t come down, figures. We are buying 4 new tires in October so that I have good tires for winter. These ones are just about bald and were horrible in the snow the few weeks I drove it in the snow. I was so glad to have that rental over the winter!

So, I have been up since 7am and I made 3 batches of cookies and some fudgesicles so Joe’s friends have something to snack on. I am also going to make pizza with cheese in the crust for dinner. I hope his friends can still come out maybe one of their parents can bring them. I have been watching “The Twilight Zone” from the 80′s all morning. It’s on the “Chiller” channel. I’ve seen about 10 episodes so far but it ends here at 2pm so maybe I will go back to watching them from the 50′s.

I’m exhausted from being up on my feet all morning washing dishes and baking. I haven’t made cookies in months so it was nice to bake again. But I am not out of butter and oats and I need more peanut butter. I think I’ll just lay on the couch watch some TV and maybe take a nap. Wish I could go to Dan’s birthday party though! :(

Stress Free Monday

Monday, May 9th, 2011 at 11:00 am  
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Man, it’s SO NICE to have a stress free Monday!! I have SO much to do today and I can actually do it without stress and frustration! Usually, I have to hurry up and do some of what I need to so I can rush home and try to get my writing done for the day before I have to pick the boys up and if I don’t finish I have to try and do it in the evening when everyone is home, it’s loud and I’m tired. I don’t have to worry about that at all!

I dropped Joe off at school at 7am and then went to the laundry mat and did a HUGE load of clothes. I can’t believe all that fits into one washing machine! It costs $4 to wash but it’s like 5 loads for me at home. I then dried them there too. I don’t usually because my dryer works at home but it would literally take me ALL DAY to dry them so I had the money so I used $2.25 to dry them all and then I folded them all and was done by 8:45am. Much better than taking all day! I came home and put them all away and got CJ up for school and then left at 9:30 and dropped him off.

I came straight home and was getting a bowl of cereal when I decided that the top of the microwave REALLY needed cleaned off so I did that and it looks great! I have been wanting to do that for MONTHS! It looks SO much better now! I think I will find those small things that I have been putting off and do them a little at a time all week.

Today I have to look up online how to make Hacky Sacks because Joe and his friends are REALLY into them! It’s crazy! Joe had one and him and a few friends gathered outside the school in a small circle to play and now it’s the hottest thing at the school! They all come early to play before school and they stay after to play LOL!! Sometimes the circle is 20 kids big! So, Joe wants to learn how to make them to sell them. I crochet one last night and it’s HILARIOUS!! It looks awful! I only had cotton yarn but what I need is either embroidery thread or size 6 cotton thread.

So, I am searching the net for patterns for the kind you sew and then kind you crochet. Joe just thought of this idea last night when we came home from Erie, of course not before or while we were there! But he already has friends that want to buy them and we haven’t even made them yet! So funny! Joe wants to make them, he doesn’t want me to, he wants to learn so he can do it himself! Isn’t that just so cute! :) I can see Joe with a crochet hook and sewing needle! I will have to take photos!

Joe really likes this one here so I think I’ll try my hand at it! :)

Well, CJ’s Dazzle thingy is AWFUL and we are returning it. I researched it last night and nothing but bad things were said about it so we are taking it back and getting our $80 back and getting him a DVD recorder and some DVD +R discs so he can record his game play that way. I can get software for his computer that rips DVD’s into a version that is uploadable for YouTube. He was very upset that this thing didn’t work, but he really wanted it for his birthday and not the DVD recorder so at least now he knows that thing is crap and he’ll be MUCH happier with the DVD recorder! LOL! I think I’ll pick the discs up today and let him use mine until we get him his own. That way he can have something right now and I can take my time finding a good one.

Happy Mother’s Day

Sunday, May 8th, 2011 at 7:55 pm  
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Happy Mother’s Day Mom!!! You are the greatest and I love you very much and I miss you even more! I hope you had a grand time on your bike ride this weekend! :)

Today was also CJ’s 16th birthday!! So, we shared a day and we spent it doing something I HATE and that is shopping!! UGH!! We went to the mall and went to 5 different shoe stores because Joe’s shoes are WAY falling apart and he desperately needs new ones. Well, every store we went to that had shoes he really liked didn’t have any size 14′s! So, after driving all over Erie and we are all worn out, we have come to the conclusion that we have to special order his shoes over the Internet. *SIGH*

After all this running for shoes for nothing, we then went to Best Buy for CJ’s present. He got a Dazzle and it looks like this:

This is for recording your game play from things like the xbox.

Then we went and saw the movie “Insidious” and it was REALLY good!!

When we got home CJ tried that Dazzle thing and it lags so bad that he can’t play or record. I am not sure if it’s our old computers or what. So, he’s upset that it won’t work. So, he brought his xbox out to the living room to run through the DVD player to record his game play and for some reason the power box blinks red out there so he had to take it all back to his room. How utterly frustrating!!! I HATE technical issues!! So, here it is his 16th birthday and what he wanted most we can’t get to work!! :(

*SIGH*

It’s a Saturday Night

Saturday, May 7th, 2011 at 6:00 pm  
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And Chuck is out playing a poker tournament in Erie (they are only $20) and I am laying in bed watching “The Twilight Zone” and the boys are fast asleep and it’s only 6pm!!!! LOL!!!! CJ I guess is very tired, don’t know why. Joe just came home from having an all day track meet so I can see why he’s sleeping. I have been in bed watching “The Twilight Zone” since 3pm! It’s wonderful!!!

I finished up 5 articles this morning and I am now taking an entire week off from writing. I have been going non-stop since the first week of December and I am SO burnt out. I am so burnt out that all I want to do is watch movies. I never want to just watch movies so I know that I need the break. Chuck got 2 jobs and calls for more so business is finally picking up enough that I can take the much needed break.

For the rest of tonight I am just going to keep watching “The Twilight Zone”, it’s the black and white series number one from 1959! I have Netflix and you can just watch it on your computer. I have even played a few games on Facebook and I haven’t been on Facebook in months! I think this week is going to go by very quickly!

CJ’s Haircut

Sunday, May 1st, 2011 at 8:23 pm  
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My gosh, it has been forever since I have updated my blog!! My life sucks right now, I get up, do my running and stress about getting articles written, do more running, try to do more writing and go to bed to do it again. Every weekend I end up trying to play catch up and hating it and wishing I didn’t have to do it. *SIGH* I want to be able to do whatever I want on the weekends and on Sunday I would love to just watch movies and relax, not stress over writing articles for other people. So, I guess I just haven’t wanted to write in my own blog.

CJ decided to cut his hair so we did that on Saturday night. I was exhausted!! I was at the church by 8am to learn the sound board and do some writing! UGH! Then at 11am we had our sound class, then at 1pm we had our mother daughter banquet. I ran sound for it and only messed up once, LOL!! Nothing like having the singing up there you have the music running and her mic doesn’t work!! YIKES! Oh well, I started the music over and got her mic on. LOL!! The speaker was finally done at 4:15pm and I was SO glad to get home! BUT, CJ wanted his haircut so Linda finally got home at 6:30pm, she did the food at the banquet. Anyway, here are before and after photos.


CJ Front

CJ Back

CJ Front

CJ Back



Last night Joe had his friends come out around 5:30pm and they stay up ALL NIGHT LONG playing video games. I took them home at 3pm today and Joe finally crashed at 2:30, LOL!! Here is my living room while they were here.

Spring Break

Thursday, March 31st, 2011 at 9:57 am  
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So, all this week the boys are off of school for spring break. They are bored and at times I wished we still lived in town and then other times I’m glad we don’t. This is one of those times I wish we did so they could hang out with friends without me having to drive to town and hang out there till they are done hanging out with friends! LOL!

Yesterday was weird! Joe and I went to Ashtabula for an orthodontist appointment. It was a beautiful day as the sun was out and there were no clouds in the sky! We sat there in a packed waiting room for an hour for his 5 minute appointment! I guess we are to always bring his retainer, we didn’t know this so next time we have to have it.

Got home at 10:45am and I packed up the eggs our church is selling and left and dropped those off at Crazy Dave’s because Donna is going to sell them for me. I then went bowling and I did pretty good, I actually got a 206 my first game!

Then after bowling I went and got my hair cut and I paid for me and Joe as I will take him there today. After that I went home and both boys wanted to go to town to hang out. So, we immediately left back to town. Joe was wearing shorts and a hoody and he went to play basketball at the park down by the lake. By now it’s 3pm and it’s cloudy and very cold! CJ went to Taylor’s house for a while and I went to the library to get some work done. I picked them up all up 5pm and we were home by 5:30.

Then Chuck and I left and he dropped me off at church because Jennifer couldn’t run projection so I said I would if someone would give me a ride home. Chuck bowls in Girard on Wed. nights. So, when I went into the church there was a few snow flakes here and there and that was at 5:45. When church was over and we were leaving at 9pm there was over 4 inches of snow out there and we had to unburry all the cars!! LOL!!!! I had on my spring coat and Deb (she gave me a ride home) had on sandals! LOL!!! When I got home I had to shovel the walkway and there was a good 5 or more inches of snow! And it’s the heavy wet stuff. This morning you can’t see anything but snow! Well, so much for spring!

This is how most of my days go so I haven’t been able to get much writing done. Today, I have till noon and then I have to get the boys ready and take them over to Uncle Dave’s while I have lunch with the girls and then pick them up as they each have a doctor appointment at 2pm and then after that I have to take Joe over to Linda’s for a hair cut and then I will make it back home. Joe needs a refill on his inhaler and CJ is having a lot of pain in his Achilles tendon and the top part of his foot on both feet. So badly that when he tries to run he cries and he’s in track! So, we have to find out why as it’s been 2 weeks with no change. He loves track and is pretty fast but he literally can’t run and he’s upset about it. Today is a track meet but they aren’t going. Joe wanted to but apparently we have a pay to play program and we haven’t been able to pay so Joe isn’t allowed to participate until we do so I have to talk with the coaches and see what we can do about it. Each kid is $150 but I sort of forgot about it and it’s paid down to $115

Last week, not sure what day, coming home from getting the boys from track practice I was talking with Joe and looking at him and not the road and Joe goes, “Hey mom, look at those deer” and then before I could turn my head he goes, “Watch out!” I scream and BAM, she hits my side of the van. Odd, no damage, not even a scratch or a dent. But, she broke her front shoulder and was lying in the road alive but suffering and I’m almost crying so I left the boys there and I went home to get Chuck. It was just around the corner from us. He took the van and I stayed home to start dinner.

When they came back Joe said while him and CJ where standing there the neighbor’s came up to see what was going on and said they would be right back. When Chuck got there so did the neighbor’s and they brought their AK47!! Good Grief!!! Nice to know our neighbor’s are well armed! They shot her in the head and it left a crater in the road! Talk about over kill, but the boys loved it. LOL! Chuck brought her home and when he gutted her, she was carrying twins! I’m so sad!! They were quite big, all white with little black noses. They are now in our freezer. Chuck is a lot like my Grandpa Mathewson, he kept odd things in his freezer too. I guess it’s not every day you get to see deer that little. It was all very sad!

This Week Was Nice

Sunday, March 20th, 2011 at 8:54 am  
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The 10th graders had testing all week so the boys didn’t have to go to school until 9:30am every morning so we all got to sleep in. This week is normal and then we have a week of no school! YA! CJ did VERY well in school this week, it was a get adjusted week as the next nine weeks starts this Monday. He goes to school when Joe does so I don’t have to drive back and forth from the school all day long. CJ goes into a room by himself so he can work on the computer until 4th period and then he finishes the day in school. He is no eligibly to participate in sports so both him and Joe are in track. Joe didn’t like baseball that much so he switched over to track and he’s glad he did.

On Friday, Deb picked me up at 8am and we headed to the Church and we made eggs! They are Peanut Butter, Maple Walnut and Coconut and they are 10 ounces before we dip them in chocolate. I decorate them and pack them up. There were over 30 of us helping and we did 1,105 eggs and I worked 12 hours! YIKES! My hand is SO swollen and sore but I had fun. Deb dropped me off at 9:15 and I had some pizza and fell sound asleep within 5 minutes.

This year I am selling them at the bowling alley and my friend Donna said I can sell them at her restaurant, Crazy Dave’s! YA!! I should be able to sell a LOT of eggs this year and I will make enough $ for CJ and maybe some other kids to go to youth camp this summer. Joe doesn’t like camp as we have tried a few times but he hates it so we don’t make him go.

Today Chuck is going to bowl in a tournament that the local bowling alley is putting on. We’ll see how he does as there is NO handicap so there is no way I am bowling in it! It starts at noon so this morning I didn’t go to church. I made blueberry cheesecake muffins for breakfast and I’m on the computer and I’m watching a movie and just relaxing! Very nice!

I’m in a class at church learning how to run the sound board so I will be part of the sound team. Odd I will be the only woman on the sound team and there are no men on the projection team, LOL! So, soon I will be able to do both but NOT at the same time, LOL! I think the sound class is a month long? Could be a bit longer, not sure. Will be nice when I am “certified” to run the board, LOL! Such small things make me happy! :)

These pictures are for Deborah White. She is a friend of mine and I chat with her and sometimes while I am chatting with her I am running projection and she wants to know what my church looks like so I took some pictures for her so she can “see” where I am. LOL!!


The right side of the church

The left side of the church

The center of the church

I thought I had some of the sound room but I can’t find them so I will have to take some more sometime and show you the place where I run projection and I’ll take a picture of our sound board! :)

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