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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, June 29, 2009 - 12:24 am
That is very pretty! I made one with the kids one time, but I honestly can't remember if it was something I read out of a mag or something we did in one of their classes when they were younger. Monday's Mission Monday's mission isn't up yet, but probably will be in the morning. Today's accomplishments: No cleaning, except one load of laundry tonight, too hot to run the washer/dryer earlier. I slept in late, then I took a quick cold shower. I beaded for a few hours, stopping when Dakota made lunch for us. That was the extent of my laziness. Since the girls practice at the batting cages was cancelled Friday, I took Kota and oldest niece over this afternoon to whack 8 tokens worth of balls. Stopped by the grocery store for a few things, took niece home, and then came home to help Darren with dinner. I have an appt with my aunt tomorrow at 5:30, have to be there at 5:15. It was really bad planning, but this is the ultrasound of her legs/feet (circulation test) that the dr wanted done asap so I didn't have much choice on when to get the appt. I'll go over early in the day and get her in the shower and ready to go, that way when I go at 4, that should be plenty of time to get her there on time! Since Darren has class and has to leave at 5:30 and the girls have practice til 6, I'm going to throw some meatballs and spaghetti sauce in the crockpot in the morning for meatballs subs. Everyone can eat when they are ready. I also have to pay a couple bills and maybe run by Walmart if I have a few minutes and get my dang check. Don't think I'll be getting any cleaning done, or at least, not all that much. This is a week of drs appts. Caleb has his dermatology appt on Wed and both kids have checkups on Thursday. The girls first All-Star game is on Wednesday, if they win, they play Thursday, if they lose they play Monday.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, June 29, 2009 - 9:40 am
I hear you on the heat! I ran the dishwasher when I went to bed last night, didn't want to suck up more than my share of power since I had run the AC all day. Got up early this morning, good thing, one of the kitties had thrown-up in the bathroom so I cleaned that up. Then off to work - at least we are havings jeans week! We close early on Thursday and are off on Friday.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, June 29, 2009 - 9:01 pm
Tuesday's Mission Darren took off work early today to come and get the big swamp cooler up and running. Last night was miserably hot, I don't think any of us got any sleep it was so hot. We took it kind of easy earlier today. Then ran out to pay some bills and cash my check. Went over to my aunts house and got her ready for her appt. I was pretty early and came back home to get the kitchen striaghtened up. Went back, bil took the girls to practice and I took aunt for her ultrasound. I got her home just as bil was coming back with the girls. Made a trip to Walmart...kids needed underclothes badly. Oh, I did make a crockpot of meatballs and sauce for meatball subs. Cooked all day and smelled great. Sucky part of it, Darren ended up having to run his mom to urgent care so he ate dinner between that and class. The kids wanted dinner and I told them to go make their sandwiches...they made turkey sandwiches! Ah well, I'll just save it for tomorrow night. Makes dinner easy. No running around tomorrow, just cleaning around the house. The girls have practice at the batting cages tomorrow afternoon but I think that's about it for the day. I'm heading to bed early tonight, I'm totally exhausted and the kids haven't even argued about having to go to bed early tonight!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 2:01 am
Man, this totally sucks. Here I was at 9 posting how exhausted I was and going to bed early and now at almost 2, I'm wide awake. This has been going on for about 3 weeks now. Er, ok, most my life, lol, but it comes and goes. I'm sitting here trying to figure out what exactly I'm going to be doing tomorrow around the house. I'll start off with the mission and I'm thinking maybe washing walls in the living room. It's been a while since I did that. The kids have yard work to do (Caleb mowing, Dakota sweeping the driveway and raking.)
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 10:41 am
It has started to cool off a little here, down to the high 80's! Yeah. Still I didn't do much last night, worked some more in my office area, gave the plants a good watering, got a chin wax (it makes me so happy!) and thats about it. Need to figure out what I am going to do for the weekend, if anything.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 1:58 pm
It's windy here, but hasn't done much to cool things down. Realizing the 4th is this weekend, I decided I desperately needed to clean out my van. Since gas has skyrocketed and I have other options, I haven't even driven it in two weeks. But, we head out to the desert across from the fairgrounds to watch the fireworks shows, back the van in, then lay all the seats down so all the kids can climb in and lay or sit and watch them. Figured I should clean the car out, vacuum everything down, and clean the carpets. Didn't bother washing it since it'll just get dirty in the desert, lol. I am burning up. Soaked through, hair a mess, headachy. And of course, as I'm in the middle of this, Dakota's little friends mom decided it was the perfect time to come down and introduce herself so the girls could play in each others houses, lol. I just love looking like wild woman the first time I meet someone! Good thing is she didn't hold it against me, lol. Haven't done much else yet, but I will sooner or later. Right now I'm just gonna sit and enjoy the coolness inside the house.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, July 01, 2009 - 12:07 am
Wednesday's Mission What did I have planned for today? I pretty much did none of that, lol, but I did get quite a bit accomplished. Besides my car and picking up around the house, I did the Costco shopping today. The girls had practice at the batting cages, usually it's quick practice, about an hour if that and since Costco is just down the street sis and I decided to go shopping. I will have to go back Friday for my aunts shopping but mine is done. My nieces are spending the night, I thought it'd be fun for Kota to have the girls to play with tomorrow morning/afternoon. And then realized I boo boo'd...Caleb's appt is at 10:30. Girls and Kota will have to go to sis' early in the morning. Need to do a little bit of cleaning and decide on what to cook for dinner and then the girls have their game tomorrow evening. Can't decide what to do about dinner, games at 5:30 we won't be home til at least 7:30 (and have to be there at 4:30) maybe sandwiches or a salad.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, July 01, 2009 - 11:14 am
My big accomplishment was to empty the litter locker and take the kitty poop to the trash, LOL.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, July 02, 2009 - 12:29 am
Thursday's Mission Today was a not getting much done day. I took Caleb to the derm this morning then picked Kota up and came home. Did a little cleaning and then Darren got off work early, sort of. They're taking advantage of not only having Friday off, but have a lunch or something at work tomorrow and decided to work 5-12:30 today and tomorrow. He got home around 1 and worked on the cooler and we just hung around until it was time for the girls game. They lost, posted about it in my folder. Tomorrow the kids have their physicals at 9am. Not sure what the heck I was thinking scheduling them so dang early in the morning! I spent some time tonight finishing my list of things to discuss with the dr (I have to write it down or will forget it, lol,) and the list of meds and dosages each takes. Also filled out the school paperwork for meds to take at school and allergies/asthma stuff the dr has to fill out for the school. They must hate to see me coming, I come with a whole stack of papers, lol! Not sure what else I have planned for the day. The girls have practice and that's really about it.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Thursday, July 02, 2009 - 11:07 am
I was trying to figure out what I was going to do food-wise for the holiday so I can stop on the way home from work. So last night I decided I would BBQ some chicken, make some potato salad and regular salad. That way I have food ready. So this morning I fished some chicken packs out of the freezer, took some recycling out and will be making potato salad when I get home. I might spend this weekend logging my pile of goodwill stuff into Itsdeductible so that I can get that stuff out of my dining room.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, July 03, 2009 - 12:35 am
Friday's Mission That is a great 4th meal, Dipo! We're doing ribs, potato salad, and desserts. We'll be shopping tomorrow. The kids and I cleaned around the house and that was about it. There was a mix up with the drs office, their new appt is scheduled for next week. Tomorrow's banking day for my aunt, and grocery shopping. Darren's off work, but had offered to help his parents with something or other, think he's taking Caleb for yardwork over there too. Oh and Darren has plans to clean the garage so we'll be doing some of that.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, July 03, 2009 - 2:00 pm
I am off today too, yeah! When I got home yesterday I made some lunch and went to take a nap - I slept for two hours, I was shocked. When I got up I started feeling yucky, so I had some chicken noodle soup for dinner, took some asprin and went back to bed. Thank goodness I feel great today, I have made breakfast, read the paper, made potato salad, cleaned up the kitchen, balanced the checkbook and purchased my Big Brother Superpass! Now I am watching Wimbledon, will make the chicken for dinner tonight and I got out the stove manual so I am planning to clean the oven when I go to bed (it is self cleaning, and it occured to me the other day that I have never used it, LOL, I have lived here for two years, OH MY!).
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, July 03, 2009 - 10:24 pm
I'm glad you are feeling better Dipo! Wonder if it was just your body saying STOP and rest for a bit or if you were coming down with something and managed to stop it before it got too bad. LOL about the oven! You'll love the self cleaning bit, it's so easy. Just turn it on, let it go, then wipe it out when it cools down. Today was banking day for my aunt so I did that first thing this morning. Came home and paid some bills so I could get them in the mail before the mail lady came and then took sis to Costco to do aunts grocery shopping. Dropped that off, then went to Vons and finished her shopping. Did some cleaning around the house and told Darren he was cooking dinner. He went in the kitchen, started pulling stuff out...and his mom called and invited us to dinner. How come no one ever calls to invite us to dinner when I'm cooking??? Tomorrow I have to make some salad to take to the bbq. Really that's about it. BBQ at sis', swimming for the kids (Dakota's spending the night at her bff's and going out to the base tomorrow afternoon for swimming and picnic out there,) then fireworks watching in the desert where Dakota's bff's family will meet up with us for watching.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, July 05, 2009 - 2:57 am
I got quite a bit done today before we left...and even managed to shave my legs! Cleaned the kitchen and the living room, did a load of laundry, made the salad, and ran by Walmart. Darren and Caleb went out to his parents house. My step fil is into flying remote control airplanes and they'd gotten Darren one for his birthday so he went to play with that. Caleb went to do yard work for them (they offered him a summer job and he's beyond thrilled to be earning money, lol.) Cooking question for ya'll, though no cooking involved. What do you put in a regular green salad? I crave fresh veggies, always have, and especially during the summer I make a lot of salads. Just a plain green salad to go with dinner, or throwing some kind of meat on top, whatever, doesn't matter to me, I love it all and tend to make salads 3-4 times a week. We had the bbq today and when it gets hot, I don't really like to eat heavy meals, so I offered to take a salad. About the only thing I did different than I'd do at home is that I used iceburg lettuce instead of fresh spinach, because while my kids will eat the spinach, there were going to be a bunch of other kids at the bbq that I knew wouldn't eat it. I tossed in some broccoli, carrots, tomatoes, green onions, cucumbers, tomatoes, and a few mushrooms. That was it in the salad, but I also took some bacon bits, some crunchy salad topping (soy nuts, sunflower seeds, bacon bits, and spices) and a pack of pine nuts and dried cranberries that had come with a different salad kit for people to put on top of their salads if they wanted. Everyone, even the kids, just raved about it. They said I put everything in it and it was soooo good. Am I weird???? That's a normal salad in my house (actually at home, I'd have added cauliflower and more mushrooms) rather it's a side dish or I'm putting tuna or chicken or taco seasoned ground turkey on top. I thought it was the strangest thing, lol, aren't you supposed to put a bunch of veggies in a salad?
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Sunday, July 05, 2009 - 10:08 am
I use iceberg and romain lettuce, onions, celery, carrots, cucumber, tomato, garbonzo beans and kidney beans. I know that some people don't put very much in their salads.
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Christy358
Member
07-10-2007
| Sunday, July 05, 2009 - 1:09 pm
I live by myself, so if I buy tons of different veggies to put on a salad, I end up with un-used veggies. I try to get different one or two each time and change up the greens regularly. (or go to a salad bar. yummy)
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, July 05, 2009 - 9:15 pm
Shoot, Dipo, you just reminded me I forgot the garbonzo beans! They're still sitting on the cabinet, lol. I guess I'm kinda lucky, besides eating salads several nights a week, the kids will munch on raw veggies as long as I have them and Darren's happy with salads for lunch as long as I put tuna or grilled chicken in it.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, July 05, 2009 - 11:45 pm
Monday's Mission I told Darren first thing this morning that I was not doing anything today other than a couple loads of laundry. And I pretty much stuck to that...did a load of clothes and a load of towels. Sewed a patch on Dakota's all-star jersey. And went to the grocery store for milk and fresh fruit. Tomorrow we get back into a sort of normal routine. Caleb starts his math bridge class. It's not regular summer school, it's for kids who had some trouble in 7th grade math...they'll be going over 8th grade math, learning some tricks, playing games and just generally getting a jump on the upcoming school year. Caleb is still pretty upset with us about it, but both Darren and I thought it would benefit him. It's 4 weeks or thereabouts for 2 and a half hours a day. Dakota and I will drive him to school, then we're coming back home to clean. I also need to start some chili in the crockpot. Figure I can get the housework done and Dakota her chores before we have to pick Caleb up. I'm going to try to get more laundry done (sheets and blankets.) Trying to decide what else I want to get done tomorrow. I have a couple dr appts this week, kids physical and one with my aunt, and need to clean my aunts and help her with a shower so should get as much done as possible when I can. The girls have their second all-star game tomorrow evening. They need to win or they are done for the season, so fingers crossed. We have to be there at 4:30 and I'm hoping Darren can go for a bit at least before he has to go to school.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, July 06, 2009 - 10:12 am
I couldn't sleep and ended up getting up pretty early this morning, so went ahead and cleaned the kitchen top to bottom. I've got a load of towels that need to be taken out of the dryer and folded and put away and have the chili in the crockpot for dinner. Trying to decide between the living room and bathroom now. Also need to get another load of laundry in and then go to pick Caleb up in about an hour or so.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, July 06, 2009 - 10:22 am
Lets see, I cleaned up the kitchen yesterday after making some more potato salad, swept the hallway. Got up late this morning so I didn't get to water the plants before I left, need to do that tonight, plus I was thinking I would do some weird stuff - my patio door handle needs tightening, and I never got around to the oven cleaning. It is supposed to be cooler and was really cold last night, so maybe I will start it when I get home.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, July 06, 2009 - 11:22 am
Decided on the bathroom. It wasn't too bad and only took a couple minutes. I've got to leave in three minutes to pick Caleb up and then run by sis' to pick up nieces jersey and the patch that needs to be sewn on. As bad as I am with sewing, sis is even worse (though wish she hadn't waited til today to ask about it.)
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, July 06, 2009 - 1:58 pm
I cleaned the den and sewed the patch on my nieces jersey. I figured out a great fund raiser for the little league next year, they could make a fortune if they had a few volunteers to sew the damn patches on and charged $5 each. I'd pay for it! That's about it for now. I need to hop in the shower in a few, oh, and throw another load of laundry in. Darren emailed me to tell me we had to go pick his car up at his moms when he gets off work at 3 so I won't have much time for anything else until after Kota's game. I may clean the living room after the game, but haven't decided yet.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, July 07, 2009 - 12:11 am
Tuesday's Mission I just bought all new gladware bowls and got rid of the loose odds and ends when I did that. Decided not to do the living room this evening. The girls won their game tonight (14-4) and will continue in the all-star tournament tomorrow evening. When we got home the kidlets wanted to sit and watch some tv and I can always clean tomorrow. I'm trying to figure out if I'm going to my aunts to clean and help her with a shower after dropping Caleb off at school or waiting til I pick him up. I'll only have about an hour and 45 minutes between dropping him off and picking him up, if I was just going to clean I could do it and leave when I need to but she needs a shower and sometimes she lags. Ok, made up my mind, I'll drop him off, come home and clean, start getting dinner ready, wash Dakota's uniform, then go pick him up and then go to my aunts. Won't have to rush her and worry about being late to pick him up.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, July 07, 2009 - 3:15 pm
LOL, good plan. I cleaned the oven last night! I just have to wipe it out and put the racks back in tonight. You are right, it is amazing! Also cleaned the bathroom and watered all the plants. Need to make some hummingbird food tonight, forgot last night.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, July 07, 2009 - 10:25 pm
Well, it was a good plan, lol, but didn't work out. Aunt told me she was busy watching the MJ memorial service and coverage. So basically same plan for tomorrow. After Caleb gets out of school, I'll go over to her house and help with the shower and clean. Need to be out of there by 2:30 though so I'm gonna be rushing. Kids have their dr appt at 3:30 and Kota needs to be at the park by 4:30.
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