Gonna get around it

So yesterday was one of those days. By 6:30am it was already headed to a bad day. And I was really feeling it.
So around 10:00 I got myself out the door, finally, to use my coupon I got in the mail for a free bag of dog food. I'm trying to get our older dog, Ruby, to change brands for various reasons. Mostly to see if we can't improve her breath. And I wouldn't mind a brand that I could pick up closer to the house.
In addition to stopping at Target to pick up the dog food and grab some groceries (which they ended up being out of half of them forcing me to make another stop this time at Walmart), I decided to stop at Joann's and pick up some fabric I had been wanting that was on sale, and to get some thread for the projects I have cut and waiting to start work on. It must have been mean old lady day though.
My first encounter was while driving through the shopping center and coming to a 4 way stop. This lady was driving like where she was going was closing in 2 minutes, and she had right of way no matter what forcing me to stop in the middle of my turn to keep from hitting her after I had gotten there stopped, started to take off but stopped again to make sure the car speeding in my direction was going to stop. When I saw it slowing I went to make my left turn. I was wrong though, she was only pausing. And gave me one heck of a nasty look while she raced for the area I was headed to park in. Then proceeded to take her time getting out and sloooooowly walk to the store. So I drove around a bit before I parked and sat in my car to try to avoid having to see the woman who just ticked me off and then walked into Joann's too. I then went in and found what I was looking for and a number of other things I like (I did good though and only got one extra cut of fabric than I planned and it was one of the half off ones, and left the 6 other fabrics I wanted for another day).
I then proceeded to the cutting table where I encountered my second mean old lady. She was actually only rude to me by pushing her way into the middle of my spot at the counter to ask a question, but she was super rude with her question to the woman who was cutting my order. With everything else that had happened, it got to me though.
After that I tried to go back to browsing, but all the annoyances were just hanging on me making this trip not so enjoyable. I can normally happily browse the store for an hour or more, but today I decided I had my stuff and it was time to move on.
So I then got my dog food at Target and went on to Walmart to get my few groceries I needed and to pick up my free Redbox rental, which I was thankful for. I was able to get Made of Honor and go home and watch that which did cheer me up.
Unfortunately that did last long. The rest of the day stayed down. And it didn't help that it was a SUPER rough day (and will be the rest of the week) for Larry. And we were both over stressed and not able to handle the other's stress in addition to our own and that from various other things popping up all the way till bed time.
Larry was SUPER sweet though and used his free rental to get Baby Mama for me, which I had been wanting to see. So he sat in the living room watching a movie on cable, and I went and watched that in the bedroom, which helped to perk us both up a little before bed in addition to watching 2 and 1/2 Men together before we decided to go to sleep.
Anyway, I can feel the down mood trying its best to settle on me again today. But I'm not going to let it. I know there's not much to keep Larry from coming home upset for most of the week, so I'm going to keep my spirits up. So today I started the day by enjoying some extra sleep and deciding to just drive Holly in instead of getting up early for the bus. This caused me to miss my work out though, but I did good and FINALLY got to have one on a Monday yesterday. Now I am going to finish up here, jump in the shower. Make sure I have all I need to make stuffed cabbage (been wanting to try this recipe for a while. it's a slower cooker one and actually need almost all day), then get the laundry folded and put away and then spend the afternoon with my sewing machine and books on CD.
So wish me luck that this helps to get past the funk. I think it will though, just typing it all out is helping me already.

This Weekend

...I FINALLY finished my rag quilt. I've had this for about 2 1/2 years now and haven't had the chance (or really space) to make it until now. It was a little kit my mom got me for Christmas the same year my husband got me my sewing machine I currently use (I have another one stored at my parents' that belonged to my grandmother, but is not a table top one. And with apartment living, it wasn't a convenient thing to use back then. Now I'm so use to my table top one I haven't gone and gotten the other one.) It's a fleece throw that comes in a little bag that has all the pieces already cut and ready to sew. You just lay them out in the pattern it shows in the directions.

It's a little harder than I figured it would be mainly due to trying to keep from sewing the cut fringe. And it took a while to pin it all together when I had completed the separate rows and was sewing them together. After I sewed the first two rows together, I realized I needed to pin the fringe down that was from the separate squares being put together. So I did get a number of pricks while trying to put it all together, but no blood to worry about getting on the fabric :)

The thing that took the longest was just finding time to do it. There are a few small mess-ups, but nothing you would notice unless I sat down and really showed you. So I'm very pleased. And looking forward to a chilly evening where I can wrap up in it.

My mom bought this for me because of the Kokopellies. One of my favorite things to collect.

Please stop today

to pray and remember.

YAY IT WORKED!

Posting the pictures that is.



Here is Holly ready for her first day of 4th grade.


Sassy thinking Larry's butt made a good pillow

And one I took yesterday morning to show how big she is already

Ok off to work some more on my blanket. Have a great day!

Today

... is my fabulous hubby's birthday!!

Happy birthday, Babe! I definitely love you more every day!!

... is also a day to catch up on a few pictures. Unfortunately we are changing cable companies (which is also how we get phone and Internet hook up), so a lot of the pics I was planning on posting are stored on my computer that I am not able to access the Internet on. But here are a few for now.

My scar one year later.

Lucas checkin' out what a handsome guy he is during tub time (tell me you couldn't just fall in love with him the moment you saw him?)

Sassy at almost 8 weeks old.

I had more to put up, but blogger isn't working with me...so another day.

Oh got some new ones that worked for posting.

More of my honorary nephew

Go...Win!

The Return

...of all things normal. Holly has returned to school as of Monday as a 4th grader (it was our last first day of elementary....where did the time go?!!), which has me returning to a more normal routine. Which has me able to blog more often.
The first day went well, she enjoyed the many more privileges the older kids get, such as choosing where to sit. She also enjoyed seeing her friends again. (this is our first year to be returning to the school she attended the previous school year. we are planning on repeating this for many years to come, God willing). Yesterday she had her first day of homework. She got into it fairly well, but I don't think she liked the change in what I expected from her as well as what the teacher did. (as expected, the work is harder, and I made her do extra things on her own to better understand it, instead of me showing her. I also haven't knuckled down on her to have nice handwriting like I should, so she was real surprised at how much nicer I wanted it this time. I'm going to stick with it though. I was hard on her sister about it when she was younger and now she has great handwriting.)
With the return of school, has also had me returning to work on the house. With everyone gone, I have gone into super deep cleaning mode and reorganizing. I have just finished the kitchen and dinning room (I actually started this before school because the table was cover in papers I had been gathering to go through and trash or file away and I need to get it cleaned up for breakfast again) Now it's on to the living room today, which shouldn't take too long. Then my bedroom, which also shouldn't take too long. I'm also going to go and look for some plants to put in the bush beds (I have seen some bed covering plants at a couple other houses a few blocks away that I really like), and some thing to put near the front door for decoration. I lately just have been feeling blah when looking at the front of the house and I would really like to spruce it up a bit. And with the coming of fall (my absolute favorite time of year due to the crisp coolness and especially the colors) the store displays have got me in the mood to do some decorating.
I also will be returning to subbing again soon. I was hoping to try to get an aide job at Holly's school, but since that didn't work I'll do the sub thing again. That will leave me open to taking a job if another aide position becomes available, but still let me earn a little extra cash in the mean time. I have to call in though. I didn't get to renew from last year with all the business of having one or both girls all summer, so I won't be able to start again for a while.
OK off to get to work. I will post tons of pictures soon. The card adaptor is hidden in the living room, so I should be able to find it with my cleaning.