Daily Ooo's Thursday May 28

[faerywings]

Wow. Same as yesterday, I am not sure if it feels like wow- Thurs already. Or Wow. Its *only* Thursday!

Yesterday I cleaned my friend's house. I never realized how big it was until I had to clean it LOL Today I am off to clean MIL's house. You can bet I am looking forward to getting home today.

Sandra- how are you today? Hope each day helps you feel better. Little Sprouts sounds awesome!! Bet the kids will love it, I know mine would (or would have a few years younger). I am glad to hear that your dad's funeral expenses didn't completely break the bank. I don't get why is has to be so much $.
I want a green burial- but I don't think my family would go for that. They get "icked" out when I say I want to donate everything to either people in need or science. The rest of me can be cremated. Wow, sorry for such a happy topic to ramble on

Linda W-- the phone itself isn't too big- not like that brick sized one I had 20 years ago! but it is seriously old fashioned- and next to impossible to text on. No music, no pictures, no movies... he isn't too happy, but oh well!
(One good thing, is that he won't be tempted to take it out in school and get it confiscated-- again....

ME-- OMG!! Wasn't that last Fringe awesome!!!!! I don't think I can wait until Sept! We'll re-watch the season on hulu.com before it starts up again to look for more clues, like last time. I knew somethign was up with Peter but I didn't expect *that!*

Dawn, that Davy! He sounds like my one cat Floyd- we call him Hurricane Floyd! he is always into something, including opening dresser drawers and stealing socks.

Clara- (((((((((((((((((hugs)))))))))))))))))))) honey! I hope that you were able to de-stress a bit. I am so happy to hear that you and DH got to talk. It sounds like you needed to get a lot out and worked through. I am so bummed for you about the job
Also-- good for the Today Show to recognize (finally) that there was more to the story. Too bad they won't update and retract what has been said.

*waves frantically to the zipping around Sally*

Hi kelly- hope Nico is feeling better and enjoyed that cupcake

Ona- wow, it is good that you were able to get to work ok. The roads must be awful. Thanks so much for the sweet words!

ME- ITA! mmm mmmm!

Dawn- how are you feeling today? Thanks for cyber hugs- I love 'em!

Its time for me to go- I am actually running a bit early today. But I need to get Scott's meds set up and get his butt down here.
And I need more coffee!

ToT:
Stay home and watch stupid movies all day

 

[sandracvrt]

good morning... I'm getting Will of to school in a few mins and then it's time to get ready for Little Sprouts... I'll have to check before we go to make sure they're still having it, cuz it looks like it's gonna rain some more!

Yesterday was mine & Gabe's 8 year anniversary... we've been together almost 10 years... time sure flies... we took the kids out for 5 Guys Burgers & Fries and it was fun... he got me an 8 GB iPod nano - a metallic yellow so I'm trying to set that up... I'm having to re-rip all the CDs I had saved because itunes kept crashing trying to convert the .wma files... so it's taking a while...

anyway, I guess I better prod Will... he's late again!

have a great day everyone!

 

[dabittymama]

Good morning!!! Today is a good day, I got to sleep from 9pm to 3am , 6 soild hours of sleep is AWESOME. Now I am sipping some joe and catching up on the forums while the girls watch George and little man snoozes in the swing. Chase had his weight check yesterday and he is already 10lbs at 2 weeks old!!!

Not much else going on around here. My MIL tried to get me to go with her today to some garge sales but I am not up for that much walking yet...maybe in another week or two. We have a busy weekend ahead of us with two BBQ's and I might go in for a pedicure, I have a gift certificate that I need to use before it expires.

Hope everyone has a wonderful day!!!

 

[snappy2003]

Morning ladies...
Chris-don't work too hard! I'm not feeling too good, my neck and head is really bad today, I'm going to beg to come home from work and pray I don't get in trouble for it. My doctor isn't there on Thursdays so hopefully it will be ok. I'm going to try to get an appt for a massage. thanks for asking .

Sandra-Happy Anniversary!!!

Jos-congrats on the good night's sleep! Have a great day!

Love and hugs everyone !

 

[mei74]

Hello, hello! Can you believe it's Thursday already? Wow. I just signed off on the contract for Christian to move up to the 3 year old classroom at the end of June - they start visiting in a couple of weeks and then make the big move at the end of the month. I can't believe he will be 3!!

Dawn - hope you can get in for your massage. I went last weekend, and it was heaven.

Sandra - Yum, love 5 guys! What a great gift too. Happy Anniv!

Joslyn - Congrats on the sleep. My kiddo likes George too! Hope you get your pedi. I seriously need one too.

Chris - yea, I was shocked about Peter too. Completely unexpected. I like your ToT - sounds awesome to me.

Love to you all!

 

[cellomom]

hey girlies!! I dont' really have time to post, but I need to make some time!!

Tonight is the ever-popular monthly stamping workshop at my house, so the kids are picking up so that I can scrub the downstairs. Then I'll go hide in my craft room and finish the last of the projects for tonight and take pics and set up my three project centers.

I am in my yearly self-eval stage...things are getting overwhelming in my brain. Don't get me wrong; I have to have a full schedule to accomplish anything, but just like spring cleaning my house, I have to spring clean my life. So some things are gonna get put back on the back burner like stamping...I'll still do my monthly workshops, but I need to not have newsletter pressure and weekly blogging and all to worry about. I need to refocus on the music. I did this about a year and a half ago when my CTs were getting out of hand. I quit everything and became a CheeryO so I could focus on the O more. (so no worries there...I'll be a CheeryO forevah!! )

The other thing I have to do is really get the kids summer school and next year planned out. I did so much better this year than years past, but I still needed more organization in the spring. I suck after Christmas! It's like a permanent spring Fever from January on!! !!! So I hope to plan the details of this next school year before next January even comes so that we can be ready and do everything we need to do!! We have a gob of summer school to do, which in my opinion is good, since last summer the kids sat around complaining about how bored they were all summer...I kept telling them to go outside and they kept saying how hot it was!! We have a pool, for goodness sakes!! !!!

My final thing I have to organize is my weight loss program AGAIN!! !! I've lost all motivation! It's like the obstacles are soo much bigger than the goal...time to refocus! I have to go and read all of my posts in the Healthy Os to get remotivated! !! Mr Gorgeous keeps telling me how hot I looked when I was working out regularly on the Bowflex...not that he doesn't think I'm hot anyway...!!! He's just saying that to get me back on...it almost worked, but I'm not quite there yet! Have to unscramble this brain first!!

So that's where i've been the last few weeks. In self-help mode...and honestly, it's lonely here...I personally believe I can't do anything, can't change anything about ME, myself...it has to come from God. So my first priority is to shut up and listen to what He wants for me in my life. He's starting to come through loud and clear, though and that really gives me HOPE!! yay!!! I did a really fun LO about my "voice" last night, and after I posted it on Flickr, I felt a million times better than I had in a couple of weeks. So I do know that scrapping is awesome therapy! That and the chocolate, shopping, and two chick flicks I watched last night! !!!

I wish for wonderful things for all of you in your lives today!!

i really love you all!!

 

[wombat146]

Friday morning here. I am sooo looking forward to the weekend. Not a good start to the morning. Our driveway/track has been washed away with the floods so I am having to leave my car down at the gate and each morning and evening DH takes me back and forth in the 4wheel drive. This morning I hop in my car and go to drive away and there is a horrible metal squealing noise! It turns out that there was a small rock lodged inside one of the front wheels.....and the only way to extract it is to take the wheel off. But, this is not as easy as it sounds! Picture this......the car is on our main dirt road/track, DH can't take it back up the house/garage because there is no longer a driveway......there are no flat spots to park the car on.....down either side of the road there is a small fast flowing stream of water, taking all the run off from the surrounding paddocks to the creek.......so DH has to stradle the car across one side of the road over the water, sideways.......this allows him some 'hard' ground to set the jack up on. As he is lying on the very wet sandy road, trying to get the jack to stay there it starts to rain!!! I am able to get into the 4wheeldrive and watch helplessly as he removes the wheel, finds the offending stone......(says some very naughty words which I won't repeat here! .....puts the wheel back on and gets the car out of the running water. He truly was my Knight in Shiny Armour this morning!! all this so I could get to work!!! The damage to our place is quite extensive and will cost a lot of money to fix....a lot of money that we don't have..so its the inconviences that are starting to get us both down.......and as I mentioned, it started to rain again......aaaaaarrrrggh......I am just so over it!! But we will survive!


Chris - my daughter is 34yrs old and decided last year that she wanted to become a Naturopath so she quit her job and went on to Austudy. which is an allowance/pension from the Government. To help supplement this paltry allowance she has taken on cleaning for a number of her friends as well. Michelle was cleaning for her former boss but has had to give that work away due to the unreasonable demands the ex-boss was starting to make. Not was 'chells expected to clean this lady's house but then she was picking the granddaughter up from Daycare and looking after her until the ex-boss came home!! She has given that one up now but has quite a few other people that she cleans for and very often comes home quite tired. Can't imagine how tired you would get doing this type of work with everything else you are battling!!

Sandra - Happy Anniversary! have fun with iPod!!

Jos - glad to hear you are getting some sleep! it certainly does make everything look brighter the next morning!! LOL! My eldest was 4 and half years old when the last of my 4 children were born.....I had 4 children under the age of 5 to contend with for about 6 months before the eldest started school!! the nights I managed to get some sleep were absolutely HEAVEN!!

Dawn - hope you are feeling better. you know, it seems like whenever you get these migraines/neck problems its when you are at work and stressing out.......when you are away and having fun you seem ok? no doubt you aware of the connection LOL! wouldn't it be lovely to be able to just stay home and not go to work!!?? oooooh I would just love that!!

ME - isn't it amazing just quick our little ones grow up so quickly!! wow! nearly 3.......just keep taking those photos! you will never have this time again!!

Sally - you sound like me about 10 years ago........I was so constantly on the go that it made my head hurt!! I like your idea of the self evaluation......it does help to sit down and decide just what your priorities in life are. That's what I did all those years ago.......I learnt to say NO in a kind but firm voice! I decided to keep what was important to me and get rid of the junk that was cluttering up my life! My DH, my children and grandchildren are the most important things in my life. They are my priority but I make sure I have time for ME, to relax, to catch up with my friends.....I really love the life I have today! Whatever you decide Sally, just make sure you have time for yourself!!

Well that’s enough rambling from me……..hope you all a lovely night, nighty night!! Just making you some hot chocolate/cocoa before you go to bed! xx