Monday Monday

Thursday night Sam brought the kids over. We had hamburgers,taco salad,broccoli salad,and potato wedges. Friday Ken was supposed to go into work ( on his day off) for a meeting but they called and canceled it. Friday morning we had to drop the car off at Firestone for inspection. G"tting ready to leave we realized we didn't have car seats..So we dropped the car off and went to Walmart to get booster seats. It makes it easier for the boys to see out the window. After Walmart we went out to breakfast. Then we came home and got the grocery list and bags and took off for grocery shopping. We decided to go to the zoo so I packed yogurt,grapes and marshmallows for the kids. We get the zoo membership every year so it didn't cost us anything. About half way through it got dark and started thundering so we headed for cover. It started raining so I decided it was a good time to let the kids eat. Ken says, " Um its hailing". We were under the roof where you can watch the sea lions from up above so there was a wall on one side..glass on the opposite side and the other 2 sides were open so the hail was hitting the ground and bouncing inside. The kids had a blast eating and chasing hailstones around. Well until it thundered really loud. Colin doesn't like loud noises..he gets that from his Nana..so he cried a little and sat on my lap. Finally it quit thundering and he was fine again. Then the sun came back out and it got hot again. Weird weather. When we left there Ken says to me," What were you planning for supper?" I said, "Probaby chicken nuggers and fries". I got "Oh"...that usually means he has a different idea. I said, "What?" "Oh I was just thinking I haven't eaten at Monte Alban yet and seeings how they're putting one in Webster I thought I should try it"...I almost laughed right out loud..but I said," Oh ok, we can try it if you want" So I didn't cook at all Friday...Yeah me!!!!!!!!!! Saturday I made breakfast for everybody and at 11:20 we had to be at church to get our picture taken for the church directory. Jen is in Tennessee so it was just Ken and I. Its the first time we've ever had a professional pic of the 2 of us done. It came out pretty good so we ordered some for the parents and the kids. We just hung out at the house the rest of the day coz we were still tired from our day at the zoo. James stopped over on his way home from he and Nicole having their pictures done. He played with the boys for awhile and then he had to go meet some friends for dinner. Poor Nicole had to work. We also had a birthday party for Shaun. We got a cake and lit a candle and the kids sang Happy Birtday. I took a video of it and sent it to him.He sent me an e-mail this morning thanking me and said he really enjoyed it. Sunday morning Sam texted me and asked if she could pick the kids up instead of me bringing them home coz she was in Niagara Falls visiting her best friend. I said sure no problem so I got to spend a couple extra hours with my grandkids. Oh yeah and I did my laundry Saturday so I don't have to do it today. And I filled the pool with water so the kids could "swim" this week end. We had a very busy very fun filled week end...Now its back to work for Ken. He works 4 days this week, then he has 4 days off,(Friday is the day they have off for 4th of July but he doesn't work Friday so they're giving him Monday off) then he works 3 days and has 3 days off. I like that he has Fridays off. So I guess that's it for now..I'll put up a pick of the kids and the birthday video....

Thursday

Ok...I think I'm ready...or as close to ready as I can be...Done: Picked and washed lettuce from the garden, vaccumed, taco meat made for Taco Salad but its one of those throw together at the last minute things, Broccoli Salad made, I think all I have left to do is grill burgers, make homemade potato wedges, and throw the Taco Salad together. It sure seems like I did more then that but I don't remember what it was. Sammy is bringing the kids over later..Yippeee...I can't wait to see them. Sometime this week end we have to get the car inspected. Ken's working on that.Oh yeah...and I did dishes at least twice. Glad the rain brought some cooler weather. Windows are open and the breeze is blowing and the house is cooling down.

Wednesday

Hot Dog!!!!!!!!!! 3 days in a row. This morning I decided to walk to the library so I packed a lunch...grabbed some cash so I could go to the grocery store and headed out at 9:50 for the library. Read a few magazines and ate my lunch. About 12:30 I packed up and walked over to Hegedorns to pick up some stuff I needed, then walked home. Man its hot out. Sam is bringing the kids over tomorrow night and I promised her burgers and taco salad. I've never made this kind of taco salad before but I've had it so it should be interesting to see if its what I remember. If not....there's 1000 more recipes on the internet. Tonight Hubby and I and Nicole if she gets here on time are having BLT's. Right now I've got the hose running in the kids pool trying to get it filled up for this week end. I figure its gonna take a long time to fill so I came in and set the timer for 30 minutes. 5 minutes to go. I'm glad summer is finally here. I really enjoyed my walk to the library this morning. We have so much with in a mile of my house and a mile walk is only about 20 minutes. So now I'm hot and sweaty and ready for a nap but I'm not gonna take one coz if I do I know I won't sleep tonight. So off to check the pool.

Tuesday

Well last night at Jose and Elizabeths was a blast. We got there around 6:30. They just bought their first house in the Lake Ave/ Flower City Park area. A big beautiful old house. The guys grilled steaks on their huge deck while us girls walked around the house and talked about all the possibilities. Supper was steak, rice, broccoli and cauliflower followed by "Chocolate Pudding Pie" with bananas and chocolate chips. Then we went to Adventure Landing and played a game of mini golf. It was the Kirklands against the Rosenbaums..Final score..Ken 44, Jose 44, Elizabeth 44, Me 41 So thanks to my 2 hole in ones and Elizabeth having a hard time on one hole Ken and I won. Jose said they let us win coz we paid for the game...LOL..He's a funny man. We really had a fantastic time of fun and fellowship. We didn't get home till after 10:30. Its made me want to have more get togethers. Its fun getting to know people. Today I went over to Nicole's and helped her load a futon in the van and take it over to Jim's Mom's. Nicole and Jim ordered new furniture that's going to be delivered Saturday. Then we came home and I finished making supper. We had BBQ'd pull porked, potatoe and macaroni salad. Nicole is now in laying down coz she has to do an overnight tonight. Oh I almost forgot!!! My cell phone rang this morning with a strange number showing. I answered and it was my Shaun!!!! He said they should be back stateside sometime in August. MP school starts next May and ends in August. He figures he should be at Fort Drum sometime in September 2010. Its so far away. He said he's really bored over there. I'm glad coz that means he's not in the midst of the bad stuff. Its hard to believe he's been gone 10 months. This Saturday is his birthday..he'll be 30. It hit me all of a sudden that a year ago now he was home..here in NY. Well...I guess that's it for today.

Monday

Well its been a pretty busy day. I had the laundry done and hung out by 8:00 this morning. The grass was really heavy with dew so I knew I wouldn't be mowing for a while. Discovered I had 2 movies that I'd recorded and hadn't watched yet so I watched them...fast forwarding through the commercials... Mom called and I paid her bills online for her and I had lunch. By then it was 12:15 and the lawn was mostly dry so I spent the next 2 hours walking behind the lawn mower and weed eating. Now I'm catching up on my blog and catching up on reading the blogs I follow. Probably should check my e-mail. Hubby and I are going to a couple from church's house tonight for supper. They just got a new house.

What's been going on

Thursday was spent reading, taking pills and sleeping. I took a couple of naps. Seems every time I fell asleep the alarm went off to take pills. I was asleep early too. Friday Ken was home..we didn't do much until 3:00 and then we went looking for a new computer coz ours crapped out AGAIN. We ended up getting both a desk top and a laptop. The laptop is doing great. He can't get the desk top to recognize the internet. He's frustrated...I'm frustrated...everybody is frustrated. Yesterday Nicole and I went to Spa Elan at Woodcliff for our massages. All I can say is....WOW. It ws very relaxing. Then we zipped over to Eastview Mall and picked up some Camille's. Later Ken and I went grocery shopping and got dessert at Mona Lisa. Today I made Ken steak for Father's Day. That's all so far.

Busy busy...tired

So the antibiotics I've been on are kicking my butt. They're fighting so hard I don't have the energy to. Last Friday we went to the memorial service for Jim's grandma and then over to his parents house to hang out for a while. Saturday Ken and I went grocery shopping, then to a village band concert at Cherry Ridge and his Dad got in town to pick up Jen. Sunday we went to church. Monday Dad and Jen left, I did laundry, mowed the lawn and Jim and Nicole came over for a BBQ and we played a WII game. Tuesday I went to Lowe's and bought Mom a new mini cultivator coz her's died, baby sat for my hair dresser while she went to Food Link, Nicole and I met Ken in Fairport for a car show and to have pizza. Then we came back to the house and I sat with Nicole until she had to go to work at midnight. This morning I went to my MOmmy's and cultivated her garden, sprayed weeds, ate lunch and helped her burn her papers. I'm so tired. I need to get a solid more then 5 1/2 hours of sleep. Antibiotics are done Saturday so maybe then. That's all.

Update on the sting thing

Well, I ended up going to Urgent Care last night. 2 antibiotics and prednisone later maybe we'll finally get this puppy under control. Because Wegmans is still doing free antibotics it only cost me $2.30 for the 11 prednisone. Yippeeee. Then I went to Walgreens to buy more test strips for my blood glucose meter and another bottle of glucose control solution. Nope they don't carry it you have to order through the manufacter. Well they're a bunch of know nothings coz I came home and googled Truecontrol and I ordered it through drugstore.com . I'm really fed with Walgreens..everytime I go in there it seems they can't answer my questions. Well this Benydryl is kicking my butt so I'll eat lunch now..take my pills, curl up with Tom Clancy and probably zonk for a while.

Update on the sting thing

The spot on my arm where I got stung is tiny but the area away from it is red and itchy. I say away because the sting mark is on the edge of the redness.I was thinking about going to the doctors but didn't really want to because my health insurance doesn't pay office calls anymore.. Man have I been spoiled for the last 30 some odd years. Then I sign on and start reading some of the digests of some of the yahoo groups I'm on and find out that what I'm experiencing is normal and that I should give it another couple of days. Who would have thought you could find out that kind of info on a Canning group? So I'm going to try to refrain from scratching it and see what happens.

What I did yesterday

Ok...before I do anything else I'm going to tell you what I got accomplished yesterday. Got up at 5:30 AM..made Ken's coffee, packed his lunch, made him breakfast. Sorted the laundry and threw the first load in the washer. Ate breakfast while doing my devotions. Hung laundry on the line. I was done with all 3 loads around 8:30. That gave me an hour to catch up on my e-mail and read the blogs I follow. Wanted to go to the library and the bank..library doesn't open until 10 I was going to walk and needed to stop at the bank on the way so I left the house at about 9:35. While I'm walking my mom calls so I talk to her as I walk. Go to the bank...walk over to the library..still 10 minutes early. I've decided I want to read Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan series in chronilogical order so I checked online before I left and yes Webster library has all nine books. Only when I get there the first book has been checked out. Got the next 3 and knew it would be a day or two before I could start reading them anyway so figured I had plenty of time to locate the first book. Leave the library my cell phone rings...its Ken. Jen is leaving for Tennessee Saturday for 4 or 5 weeks but has a dentist appointment on the 30th. The dentist has an opening at 3:20 would it be possible for me to take Jen? Light bulb moment...ok but it'll cost you...what? Stop at Fairport library on your way home and pick up Tom Clancy's Patriot Games...yes!!!!!! Come home its about 10:40..throw the grass catcher on the mower and mow the lawn..depositing the grass clippings along the back of the garage...another place I want to put a grow bed but right now only grows weeds. Stop at noon to eat lunch. Nicole calls and we talk for 15 or 20 minutes. Back out to finsih the lawn at 12:30. I ran out of garage just as I finished mowing the lawn..thank you Lord. Now its 1:45, still an hour till Jen gets out of school. Take the clothes off the line, fold and insert in laundry baskets. In process of I get stung by something. Still not sure what it was but I definitely got stung. Little red mark that swelled slightly to a little smaller then a dime. Take the clothes in and leave at 2:30 to get Jen and take her to the dentist. Walk in the dentist office and the receptionist says, Hi Diane...your daughter decided to take the appointment huh? Kind of strange remark until 10 minutes later when Ken calls and says he forgot to call the dentist office back and tell them she'd take the appointment.. How good is the Lord that HE held that appointment for us?? Very very good. Came home and got potatoes ready to throw in the oven and steaks out to thaw. After supper we did dishes and started to play WII. Then my MOmmy called and needed me to do some stuff on the internet for her..just as I finished that Nicole came over to pick up her cake for their anniversary that she'd ordered and I picked up for her Sunday. In the middle of the night we had some pretty good thunder and lightening storms..Now the sun is out and its warm...I could handle stormy nights and sunny days.

Monday Monday

Thursday I mowed the lawn again with the grass catcher on and put the clippings next to the house to keep the weeds down until I can get my grow beds built. Then I went and sat with the grandkids for a couple of hours while Samantha went to a jewelry party. Friday I baby sat for my hair dressers 2 year old at my house. Ken was off so the 3 of us went grocery shopping. He and she had a blast chasing me around the stores with the cart. Saturday we had absolutely NOTHING to do..I laid on the couch most of the day reading..I finished one book and read another entire one. True they aren't huge books but still. We walked down to Hobby Lobby so Ken could get some stuff for the rockets he's been working on. We've just gotten back into that after not doing it for several years. For lunch I grilled burgers on the grill, made a mac salad and ate a few left overs. Right after lunch I made 2 pizza crusts and par baked them so we could have homemade pizza for supper..Did I mention my $40 buyers remorse over the boughten pizzas last week end. OH OH..no mozzerella or pepperoni so later we walked down to Wegmans got what we needed and walked home. The first pizza was just a plain cheese pepperoni mushroom onion pizza..The second I got more creative. 2/3 tomato sauce, 1/3 taco sauce, just a little mozzerella mixed with a larger amount of Mexican cheese, taco meat, mushrooms, onions...oh man...that thing was awesome!!!!! I ate way to much. But its definitely something we'll make again. After the pizzas were all made it suddenly dawned on me that I hadn't put any seasonings on the first one. Didn't seem to make a difference...we demolished them both. I didn't know if I'd be able to do the laundry today because it was supposed to rain but now they say it isn't supposed to rain till tonight so the laundry is on the line in the sunshine, flapping in the wind...I need to walk to the bank and then to the library in alittle while and then come home and mow the lawn. off I go

Wednesday

Not much going on here. Monday in addition to everything else I did I went grocery shopping. Tuesday was baby sitting..Other then that just reading and trying to figure out what to make for supper and laughing at the weather. Sunday I didn't know if I was going to do laundry coz it was supposed to rain..then it wasn't gonna rain till late afternoon..then it was supposed to rain Tuesday. Then it was supposed to rain today. Don't know why those weathermen spend so much money to go to college. Today the weather is spitting in the eye of the weathermen by having the audacity to let the sun shine..and on a day it was supposed to rain. Shame shame. So that's it for this boring little part of the world. We're having chili for supper..Remember it was supposed to be raining..what better to have on a cool, damp day? Oh well..

Catching up......again

Friday was supposed to be Hubby's day off but he ended up working 5 hours...OVERTIME!! Saturday we got up early and went to Perinton to donate blood. Stopped at the farmer's market in Fairport on the way home but they didn't have much but plants...went to a little family restaurant and had breakfast. Came home grabbed Hubby's Home Depot gift card and headed for Penfield. He bought a couple of things and then we stopped at Block Buster and picked up some movies. Came home and I crashed..out...nap...felt good. I had to watch the movies Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. Saturday night I ordered pizza and wings...and Sunday morning I went through buyer's remorse for spending $ 40 on food..ok...on one meal. Today I did the laundry and hung it out and then sat here all morning waiting for it to rain. Finally after lunch I decided if it wasn't gonna rain I was gonna mow the lawn. Which I did and as soon as I was done I took the clothes off the line...phew...clothes dried outside and the lawn mowed and it didn't start sprinkling till I was done. So that's it for now.