Hello, All!
I'm sorry to have been mostly missing the past few weeks; life has been a little stressful of late. This past week, I lost my oldest cousin on my Mama's side of the family to an unexpected medical issue; the services were held yesterday and since another cousin and I work in the same unit, I worked a split shift by finding coverage for part of my shift then coming back in to work at 6pm so that cousin could get some sleep before coming back in to work her scheduled night shift. Drove through a few lightly flooded areas on my way home, but made it in shortly before 1 am.
The ongoing saga of the new computer program at work and it's myriad glitches paired with short staffing has taken a bit of a toll - I'm reeeeallllly wanting to just flop on the couch and either put a pillow over my head or read PAW fiction until my eyes cross on my days off work, instead of doing useful things. Kathy in FL just HAD to choose this past week to start posting updates to her stories..... and I soooo thank her for doing so; my brain needed a break! I've been forcing myself to get up and move after just a few chapters but the couch keeps singing it's Siren song...
Besides going to and from work - leave at 0545 and home at 2045, if I'm lucky! - I managed to pry myself off the couch long enough to go to two track meets, and one T-ball practice, plus aqua aerobics with the neighbor ladies twice last week; and one of them hauled me out of my house and dragged (drug?) me on an all day excursion to town on Friday. Her van was fully loaded by the time we got back but only the items in the compartment made by the smaller back seat being raised and the area above it belonged to me. I did manage to pick up a couple of cases each of pineapple and mandarin oranges for the pantry as planned, but had to settle for ring and chunk pineapple as Aldi didn't have any crushed. I wanted those fruits on hand since I can't grow them here. I also stocked up on bottled water - I'll rotate it out in the cooler we take to the T-ball games. With all the rain we've had this spring, our 1000 gallon water tank in the shed it over 3/4 full, so I don't worry about keeping bottled water on hand as much as I do in the winter months when we have to empty the tank.
The lightly flooded roads I drove through last night on my way home from work were flooded 12" deep when Hubby headed to town early this morning in response to a call from his Mama than her basement was flooded; he did report that water had gone down some by the time he made his way home a bit ago, and the rain is fairly light at the moment. I'm sure glad that I don't have to go to work for a couple of days - although the forecast isn't very favorable for those days either!
Plans for today include carrying in the non-perishables I picked up the other day - friend backed her van up until it nearly met mine, and we stood under the shelter of the vans lifted back doors and transferred the non-perishables to mine rather than both of us getting half drowned toting them in - I was soaked to the skin just in the time it took me to get the perishables in the house, so the non-perishables have remained in the van since then
Other than that, there's not much on the list beyond possibly catching a nap as I've been running on about 4 hours sleep a night for the past couple of weeks..
Tomorrow is aqua aerobics with the neighbor ladies while Hubby takes the van in for an oil change; then working in our two storerooms to try to get all the pantry stuff into one so that Hubby can move all his reloading stuff, etc.. into the other one; thus freeing up the family room for family stuff - I'm thinking we need a ping-pong table again
Tuesday is a work day, Wednesday I might try to get the handyman out to do some inside work as it is supposed to pour rain again; if it doesn't rain, there is a T-ball game on the schedule that evening. Thursday and Friday are work days; then a three day weekend off - woo hoo!!
Take care, All - wishing you a happy and productive week!
I'm sorry to have been mostly missing the past few weeks; life has been a little stressful of late. This past week, I lost my oldest cousin on my Mama's side of the family to an unexpected medical issue; the services were held yesterday and since another cousin and I work in the same unit, I worked a split shift by finding coverage for part of my shift then coming back in to work at 6pm so that cousin could get some sleep before coming back in to work her scheduled night shift. Drove through a few lightly flooded areas on my way home, but made it in shortly before 1 am.
The ongoing saga of the new computer program at work and it's myriad glitches paired with short staffing has taken a bit of a toll - I'm reeeeallllly wanting to just flop on the couch and either put a pillow over my head or read PAW fiction until my eyes cross on my days off work, instead of doing useful things. Kathy in FL just HAD to choose this past week to start posting updates to her stories..... and I soooo thank her for doing so; my brain needed a break! I've been forcing myself to get up and move after just a few chapters but the couch keeps singing it's Siren song...
Besides going to and from work - leave at 0545 and home at 2045, if I'm lucky! - I managed to pry myself off the couch long enough to go to two track meets, and one T-ball practice, plus aqua aerobics with the neighbor ladies twice last week; and one of them hauled me out of my house and dragged (drug?) me on an all day excursion to town on Friday. Her van was fully loaded by the time we got back but only the items in the compartment made by the smaller back seat being raised and the area above it belonged to me. I did manage to pick up a couple of cases each of pineapple and mandarin oranges for the pantry as planned, but had to settle for ring and chunk pineapple as Aldi didn't have any crushed. I wanted those fruits on hand since I can't grow them here. I also stocked up on bottled water - I'll rotate it out in the cooler we take to the T-ball games. With all the rain we've had this spring, our 1000 gallon water tank in the shed it over 3/4 full, so I don't worry about keeping bottled water on hand as much as I do in the winter months when we have to empty the tank.
The lightly flooded roads I drove through last night on my way home from work were flooded 12" deep when Hubby headed to town early this morning in response to a call from his Mama than her basement was flooded; he did report that water had gone down some by the time he made his way home a bit ago, and the rain is fairly light at the moment. I'm sure glad that I don't have to go to work for a couple of days - although the forecast isn't very favorable for those days either!
Plans for today include carrying in the non-perishables I picked up the other day - friend backed her van up until it nearly met mine, and we stood under the shelter of the vans lifted back doors and transferred the non-perishables to mine rather than both of us getting half drowned toting them in - I was soaked to the skin just in the time it took me to get the perishables in the house, so the non-perishables have remained in the van since then
Other than that, there's not much on the list beyond possibly catching a nap as I've been running on about 4 hours sleep a night for the past couple of weeks.. Tomorrow is aqua aerobics with the neighbor ladies while Hubby takes the van in for an oil change; then working in our two storerooms to try to get all the pantry stuff into one so that Hubby can move all his reloading stuff, etc.. into the other one; thus freeing up the family room for family stuff - I'm thinking we need a ping-pong table again
Tuesday is a work day, Wednesday I might try to get the handyman out to do some inside work as it is supposed to pour rain again; if it doesn't rain, there is a T-ball game on the schedule that evening. Thursday and Friday are work days; then a three day weekend off - woo hoo!!
Take care, All - wishing you a happy and productive week!
