Matt!
16 Whole Years!
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Busy, busy, busy...
This weekend has gone so fast. That's always how I feel when I work all day on Friday. When I got off work at 4, I met Rob and Lindsay at Matt's JV game that didn't end until about 5:30. Halfway through the game, Jake's girlfriend came to sit with us and we chatted the rest of the game. I really love that girl. The GF is an amazing girl, but I've probably already said that. Anyway, I waited at the school until 6 for Matt and we made a stop at Super Suppers before coming home. Jake spent the night at a friends house and everyone left at home (but me) was asleep by 7 so I sat and read blogs - big surprise.
Saturday, Matt went with his grandparents and Matt was spending the day with friends so I asked Lindsay if she wanted to (1) wander around town with her Dad and me or (2) stay home and watch movies all day (while the neighbor knew she was home, of course). She opted for staying home. No problem. The hubby and I went out for breakfast, stopped at both local libraries (I was looking for cookbooks, I found five I wanted to spend some time with) and then we went to the museum. Our museum is a tiny little local affair that pays tribute to the original Fort Collins and it's founders. We found ourselves there to peruse the archives. That makes us sound intellectual, right? Not. The hubby wanted to look at the yearbooks from old high schools that no longer exist and I was along for the ride. I do love the old pictures through, and they brought out a landowners map from 1925 that I became obsessed with. I also found some printouts from the little town just north of here that I grew up in. Apparently, they used to have a newspaper called the Wellington Sun. The day was so much fun.
After spending time, just the two of us, doing nothing important... we decided it was time to grocery shop. We stopped at Walmart, Sam's Club and Safeway before making it home. After putting away groceries, I spent the evening reading cookbooks, blogs on kids lunches, and chatting with my neighbor.
This morning was boring. I started the dishes, because SOMEONE (Matt), hadn't done them in four days and I wanted them done. He noticed and finished them. 'Bout Time! I sat and drank my coffee, considering buying Lindsay a new lunchbox she might actually use, and finally got myself moving. Lindsay and I went over her breakfast and lunch calendars for school and decided on two days a week she would carry a lunch with her. I'd like to make sure she's getting some fruit and veggies in her at least a couple lunches a week and packing it for her is a last ditch effort. Also, if I'm making sure there is 'lunch food' in the house, I'll be more likely to remember to take my own lunch to work and not spend $6 a day eating out. So the two of us went out looking for something similar to bento lunchboxes. I had read about the Laptop Lunchbox and there is a store here in town that carries them, but they're a little expensive. We found something that works at Target, but not before we had visited Bed, Bath and Beyond (bought silicone muffin cups), Big Lot's, Savers (on the off chance that there would be some sort of plastic box that would work) and Walgreen's. The Target we bought the box at was the second one we had been to... yep, I bought something I'd already seen at the first place we went, I just had to go to the other one to convince myself that I wouldn't really find anything better. The up side? It was a dollar cheaper at the older Target. Now why is that?
When we got home, I did lunch prep for the coming week, washed the new lunch stuff, and even made hummus. I planned the weeks dinners, two lunches for A, four lunches for me to carry to work (which is really a first for me), cut up fruit, and made the boys some extra food to take to school tomorrow.
I've been awfully domestic today. I'm tired.
Saturday, Matt went with his grandparents and Matt was spending the day with friends so I asked Lindsay if she wanted to (1) wander around town with her Dad and me or (2) stay home and watch movies all day (while the neighbor knew she was home, of course). She opted for staying home. No problem. The hubby and I went out for breakfast, stopped at both local libraries (I was looking for cookbooks, I found five I wanted to spend some time with) and then we went to the museum. Our museum is a tiny little local affair that pays tribute to the original Fort Collins and it's founders. We found ourselves there to peruse the archives. That makes us sound intellectual, right? Not. The hubby wanted to look at the yearbooks from old high schools that no longer exist and I was along for the ride. I do love the old pictures through, and they brought out a landowners map from 1925 that I became obsessed with. I also found some printouts from the little town just north of here that I grew up in. Apparently, they used to have a newspaper called the Wellington Sun. The day was so much fun.
After spending time, just the two of us, doing nothing important... we decided it was time to grocery shop. We stopped at Walmart, Sam's Club and Safeway before making it home. After putting away groceries, I spent the evening reading cookbooks, blogs on kids lunches, and chatting with my neighbor.
This morning was boring. I started the dishes, because SOMEONE (Matt), hadn't done them in four days and I wanted them done. He noticed and finished them. 'Bout Time! I sat and drank my coffee, considering buying Lindsay a new lunchbox she might actually use, and finally got myself moving. Lindsay and I went over her breakfast and lunch calendars for school and decided on two days a week she would carry a lunch with her. I'd like to make sure she's getting some fruit and veggies in her at least a couple lunches a week and packing it for her is a last ditch effort. Also, if I'm making sure there is 'lunch food' in the house, I'll be more likely to remember to take my own lunch to work and not spend $6 a day eating out. So the two of us went out looking for something similar to bento lunchboxes. I had read about the Laptop Lunchbox and there is a store here in town that carries them, but they're a little expensive. We found something that works at Target, but not before we had visited Bed, Bath and Beyond (bought silicone muffin cups), Big Lot's, Savers (on the off chance that there would be some sort of plastic box that would work) and Walgreen's. The Target we bought the box at was the second one we had been to... yep, I bought something I'd already seen at the first place we went, I just had to go to the other one to convince myself that I wouldn't really find anything better. The up side? It was a dollar cheaper at the older Target. Now why is that?
When we got home, I did lunch prep for the coming week, washed the new lunch stuff, and even made hummus. I planned the weeks dinners, two lunches for A, four lunches for me to carry to work (which is really a first for me), cut up fruit, and made the boys some extra food to take to school tomorrow.
I've been awfully domestic today. I'm tired.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Books On The Sidebar and Some Whine
Naughty Neighbors, I don't even know where this one is. It wasn't a bad book, but I never seemed to have the time.
The Amber Chronicles? It's a lot of pages. Yeah, that's a cop-out. I just don't have the time...
Wait, that excuse may have been used before...
I've read Digital Fortress before and I'm just not into it right now.
Besides, I just don't have the time.
And I have a class starting in a month. And Varsity football games on Thursdays or Fridays, soccer practice on Tuesday (which I carpool home) and Friday, JV football on Monday, Tuesday or Friday, soccer games on Saturdays, and that class? It's Tuesday at 6. Soccer practice is over at five and we live about half an hour from the practice field, and the campus is 20 minutes from home....
See a theme here?
I just don't have any time. I'm betting that I'm not alone.
The Bad, The Sad, The Good & The Smelly
The Bad
Jake and Lindsay had bronchitis. It was very bad. Lindsay was so sick that she had to have a nebulizer treatment before they could even hear her lungs. Apparently, she has allergies that brought on asthma that allowed the bronchitis to develop. She's been on five different medications for two weeks. She missed three soccer practices and a whole week of school because she was too sick - and I mean sick - to even be outside.
Jake is still recovering as well. He had a rough football game last Friday night; between the difficulty breathing and the fatigue, he barely made it. But 17 year old boys are determined.
You now know the reason for my extended absence. I've been so stressed out that I could hardly sleep, let alone blog. Oh, and let's not forget that my allergies have created a swollen, snotty, sneezy creature that kind of resembles me. And that's when I take Zyrtec and Benedryl. I LOVE August.
The Sad
Jake and Matt are on the same varsity football team. Matt is on the kick return team and Jake plays tackle on the Offensive Line. They played their rival school in the season home opener and lost. It was a sad game. If they'd had 60 seconds more, they would have tied the game. But football scores don't care if you have 10 more seconds or 10 more minutes - they lost.
Tonight they are playing down in Longmont. Rob is at darts in Longmont and Lindsay and I are staying home. I hope the boys win. I hope Jake feels okay.
The Good
My boss bought me a new computer and I've spent this week transferring files and getting everything running. And I have internet! Not dial-up! A real, honest to Pete, DSL connection on a wireless network! My boss has joined the 21st Century - and he brought me along!
While changing over to a computer with more RAM, a more powerful dual-core processor, and internet access, is great, it's also very stressful. And since my old computer isn't destined for my son's desk (it's going to be a training computer for our field guys), it means that I have to wipe everything company-related from the hard drive. Sounds easy, but I've got to make sure that everything has been moved before I go around deleting everything. Then I'll have to run scan-disk and defrag the whole thing. I'm having nightmares about it all.
The Smelly
Remember the mice that were running across my desk in the night while leaving me their little presents? You see where this is going, right? My boss used poison to rid the office of the fuzzy little rodents and swore to me that they'd run away to find water before they died...
They died where they were getting in - through a hole they'd chewed in the wall under a cabinet. And they didn't make it much farther than that. They began to stink and I smelled it on Tuesday when I went into work. Oh, Geeze did it stink!
It took us a day and a half to find the source of the smell because the hole was under a cabinet that appeared to be mounted tight to the floor but was, in fact, just decorative kick-board.
My boss decided to just seal up the hole and this morning the office was stink-free.
The Now
Whatever, that was cheesy.
So I say to Lindsay, "It's just you and me tonight." She walks over to me, gives me a hug, and says, "I'm gonna go play."
I'm totally feelin' the love.
Jake and Lindsay had bronchitis. It was very bad. Lindsay was so sick that she had to have a nebulizer treatment before they could even hear her lungs. Apparently, she has allergies that brought on asthma that allowed the bronchitis to develop. She's been on five different medications for two weeks. She missed three soccer practices and a whole week of school because she was too sick - and I mean sick - to even be outside.
Jake is still recovering as well. He had a rough football game last Friday night; between the difficulty breathing and the fatigue, he barely made it. But 17 year old boys are determined.
You now know the reason for my extended absence. I've been so stressed out that I could hardly sleep, let alone blog. Oh, and let's not forget that my allergies have created a swollen, snotty, sneezy creature that kind of resembles me. And that's when I take Zyrtec and Benedryl. I LOVE August.
The Sad
Jake and Matt are on the same varsity football team. Matt is on the kick return team and Jake plays tackle on the Offensive Line. They played their rival school in the season home opener and lost. It was a sad game. If they'd had 60 seconds more, they would have tied the game. But football scores don't care if you have 10 more seconds or 10 more minutes - they lost.
Tonight they are playing down in Longmont. Rob is at darts in Longmont and Lindsay and I are staying home. I hope the boys win. I hope Jake feels okay.
The Good
My boss bought me a new computer and I've spent this week transferring files and getting everything running. And I have internet! Not dial-up! A real, honest to Pete, DSL connection on a wireless network! My boss has joined the 21st Century - and he brought me along!
While changing over to a computer with more RAM, a more powerful dual-core processor, and internet access, is great, it's also very stressful. And since my old computer isn't destined for my son's desk (it's going to be a training computer for our field guys), it means that I have to wipe everything company-related from the hard drive. Sounds easy, but I've got to make sure that everything has been moved before I go around deleting everything. Then I'll have to run scan-disk and defrag the whole thing. I'm having nightmares about it all.
The Smelly
Remember the mice that were running across my desk in the night while leaving me their little presents? You see where this is going, right? My boss used poison to rid the office of the fuzzy little rodents and swore to me that they'd run away to find water before they died...
They died where they were getting in - through a hole they'd chewed in the wall under a cabinet. And they didn't make it much farther than that. They began to stink and I smelled it on Tuesday when I went into work. Oh, Geeze did it stink!
It took us a day and a half to find the source of the smell because the hole was under a cabinet that appeared to be mounted tight to the floor but was, in fact, just decorative kick-board.
My boss decided to just seal up the hole and this morning the office was stink-free.
The Now
Whatever, that was cheesy.
So I say to Lindsay, "It's just you and me tonight." She walks over to me, gives me a hug, and says, "I'm gonna go play."
I'm totally feelin' the love.
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