Being at Home on Saturday is Boring!-February 6, 2010

Still can't find my camera battery!  I think I am going to have to bite the bullet and order a new one. Bummer.
Now I'm left to my iphone camera, which is very useful, but I like having the other one in my purse better.

I forgot my cell phone yesterday at home, ughh, so no pictures.  Normal day of work, followed by a work party at a comedy club.  The comedians were pretty funny, but my husband had to work until 10pm so I was left hanging out at the couple's party by myself.  Major bummer.

Today was much the same.  My husband again had to work all day, and is still there now, at almost Midnight!  It's ridiculous. I was mad for a while b/c it meant missing another evening that we could have been out with friends. But now I've realized, I just need to get over it and make the best use of my time.

So I hung out with Kaitlyn, ran a few errands and then decided to duke it out with the sewing machine again!  It took a while to get that stinkin' bobbin right, but finally I was able to bang out a few reusable produce bags!

 

Might seem a little over the top to some people, but I already use reusable grocery bags whenever possible. It's kind of weird to go to the produce aisle and tear off a plastic bag.   These are super simple.  I was able to purchase a ton of tulle today for $1, and then I just sewed each of the sides with a simple line.  They are really lightweight and perfectly see through so it won't cost anymore or be a nuisance to the store for me to use them. I believe you can probably buy these somewhere, but it's much more fun to make them myself!

An Opportunity for Quality Time-February 4, 2010

My husband graciously created an opportunity for us to spend quality time together over the next few days, or weeks.  As we are trying to prepare to sell our house, one of these days, we have discussed selling his huge tv and getting a more proportionate tv for our living room.   Today, a few days before the Superbowl, he sold his tv.  O well, I only like the commercials anyways.

We only have 1 television in our house, and I like it that way.  We actually had 2 for a while, I won one in a contest a couple years ago, but we never used it so we gave it to my in-laws.  There are rare instances such as this that having only 1 tv is less than convenient, but 350 days out of the year it's ok.

I think hovering around our little 16 inch lap top screen and watching shows from hulu.com constitutes quality time, so see, there's always a positive!

Work-February 3, 2010

No photo today. I have managed to misplace my camera battery. I charged it yesterday and then threw it in my purse to put in my camera later-typical. Now I can't find it.

Not sure what I would have taken a picture of anyways. Maybe my to-do list. Got a lot done today, actually got all my paperwork done to get approved for a license at work. Once it's approved the fun party of studying a TON of information I know nothing about begins.  Can't wait!  I really see this as a great accomplishment for the year if I can pull it off!  Wish me luck!

It's Hard to Change-February 2, 2010

Yep, this is pretty much a monthly occurrence.

It's not that I don't have money for gas, especially today as this is a company car.  It's that I run out of time! I know, everyone is busy, I am not special. I just can't seem to get my time planned out quite well enough.  If ever, I am early, which is so, so rare, I will notice I am running a little early and try to fit one more little thing in, which in turn makes me late. 

When I'm late, I guess I just kind of hope for the best! My husband thinks I'm the most hopeful person he knows. He might be right. I may be hopeful to a fault at this point.

Like today, I knew I was out of gas, but I wanted to get just a couple more things done at work before leaving. Which by the way, proved to be a very successful day-I can actually read all my emails on 1 page now.  But that means I didn't leave until 15 minutes after I needed to, which gave me only 20 minutes to get to the babysitter on time...in traffic.  So the choice was, be late, or get gas.  Well I didn't want to be late as that throws of other peoples day-and costs me money, so I just "hoped" the mileage was wrong and that I would make it there! As it turns out- I was right!

Silly gas lights, I've learned not to trust them these days...and I'm hopeful they don't burn me one of these times!

Stay At Home Mom Day!- February 1, 2010

Kaitlyn was feeling a little under the weather yesterday, so I decided to take a day off and pretend to be a SAHM.  Luckily, she was feeling a lot better today, so I just got to spend the day goofing off with her! 

We actually did get a lot done, such as laundry, groceries, dinner, and unfortunately had to do some work as well...so much for vacation day. 

As we were running errands, I made a deal with Kaitlyn. If she was good, she would get a Zhu-Zhu pet!  I have read and heard a few things about the latest craze.  As with most craze's I was not overly impressed, and would by no means be spending extra to get ahold of one of these like some people were.  Toys R Us had them for $10 today though and since I had a $5 gift card, I thought it was the perfect gift!  It's kind of creepy, willingly letting a mouse looking thing run around your house, but it's pretty entertaining too!

 

Kaitlyn even took her Zhu-Zhu pet on a ride outside the store!

Then she got in bed and pretended to go to sleep with him.  Don't worry, I wouldn't really let her sleep with it.