Today is not going as planned.    I forgot there was a planned water outage in the community so we have no running water today.  As a result I have not showered, washed yesterdays make up off my face, nor even brushed my teeth today.  Additionally, our wonderful wonderful dishwasher is on the blink.   So I’ve decided to skip day class today (my classmates may appreciate my stinky self not being there) and tidy up the house, and call the repairman for the dishwasher.

I’m using the day to tidy up and organize the house a bit, and sit down and plan meals for the next few weeks.  Something I have not done since we moved into the new house and my rapidly spiraling out of control food budget is showing my lack of planning.

I’m also hoping that the replacement cell phone I ordered off ebay will arrive in today’s mail so that I can go get it set up and get back to making and receiving phone calls and generally “having a life”.

Sometimes I think life may just throw you a curve ball or two so you can take a step back and get back on track.

It’s been a busy week, school is going well.

I have managed to drop my phone in some water so I am currently without a phone.   My contract is almost up for a shiny new fancy phone so for now I was able to find someone elses used phone on ebay to replace the wet one.  Hopefully it will be here soon!

1. A cup of tea and a cookie sound really good right about now.
2.Curtains in the windows makes a place feel like home.
3. Everything has its beauty even those things that others don’t think are beautiful.
4. Don’t you just love the taste of strawberries?
5. Art makes me want to get back to my own art projects.
6. LOL I just noticed I forgot that the oven is still on.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to testing at school, tomorrow my plans include hair cuts for the boys at juvenile hall, then a date by the fireplace with my husband and Sunday, I want to relax and enjoy my family!

More than one post a week?  What the heck is going on around here?

I’m guessing it is stress.  School is putzing around just fine.  I actually like my Health Science class, the instructor is cool, the subject is interesting, and the homework is not overly taxing.   ASL requires a lot more work, but I am enjoying it and have always been fascinated with sign language.

Home life is more stressful.  R & I seem to be barely hanging on while we wait for my evening classes to be over.  I am crabby in the mornings the 5 minutes I get to see him before he leaves for work, and he is crabby in the afternoons when he gets off work (sometimes I get to see him, most often I do not).  There seems to be so much that we want to accomplish for ourselves that gets put on the back burner while we take care of my schooling, G’s schooling, his sons schooling (every semester we think he is going to graduate then he gets notified that some class or another no longer qualifies as yadda yadda yadda so he needs to take more units – I personally think it is a scam that CBU is running to get more money, that place is $$$$).

This last weekend we worked on moving his daughters stuff into the condo since this weekend she will be officially moving in with the Son and his girlfriend so they can all share the rent together.   I’m keeping my fingers crossed that they are all able to manage everything because R is super stressed out about it, and I am forever optimistic that everything will work out ok…  mostly just because we need it to

Ok, I’m off for another busy day.

At least I am hoping so.

Today I’ve done a million loads of laundry.  We left our washer and dryer behind at the condo for the kids to use in anticipation of taking over the washer and dryer K had at her house once she moved into the condo with the other kids.  Well she finally brought her stuff down the hill this weekend and with it the very much anticipated washer and dryer.  I’ve probably done 5 loads of laundry today, but I can’t tell you how absolutely grateful I am to now be able to do a load or two of wash whenever I feel like  it.

This week I want to concentrate on finishing up organizing and decorating the office and then I will feel like the house is pretty much done on the inside and will be able to look forward to the outside decorating and gardening once it stops raining (though I am really enjoying all the rain we are getting)

More house pics coming your way soon!

I am pretty sure that I was Bonnie in a former life… or maybe there is just a part of me that wants to live dangerously…

… anyway on a recent trip to Vegas we stayed in Primm and for once the death car was available for viewing.  In the past it has always been part of a traveling exhibit so I wouldn’t get to see it.  It is awesome to see in person.  I was super sad to see that it is  behind glass so you can’t really get good pics of it.

The flowers are the reflection of the carpet in the glass