Sleep

I have slept.

Let me tell you the mattress story:
Our old mattress was a double banana bed and our arms fell asleep all night and you couldn't sleep a wink and woke up more tired than when you went to bed. So we got a new mattress. It was wonderfully comfy. My husband couldn't sleep a wink on it even though I slept very well. After 6 days, my husband could stand no more. So back to the store- we picked out a new one and I couldn't sleep a wink on it cause it was nothing like the one we tried in the store. After a few days of seeing of it would soften, my husband called the company. They sent us a new one. It was wonderful just like the one in the store. I guess the 1st one we got was defective? But the new one they brought us had a crushed side and they would bring a new one tomarrow. I slept very well that night anyways. Then they brought the new mattress. That one was exact like the "defective" one we first had. So the next day, my husband requested the crushed mattress would be back and they said in a few days the side will pop back in. So I slept last night!

That means that we had a total of 4 different mattress' in our house in the last 2 weeks! One of them was here twice ( the one we kept.) Poor delivery guys- they were probably sick of us! I'm sure they have the map to our house memerized by now! Imagine- I changed the sheets many times in the last week. I am sick of remaking the bed. It doesn't just involve pulling the sheets up like every normal day, but putting a mattress pad, sheets, and blanket on every night!

I love my new bed and am accepting that the new mattress isn't exactly the perfect mattress we had the first time, but I can sleep well on it too and my husband can also.

So the end.

I am still eating Easter candy!

Nothing new has happened in life except I actually made a meal today I havn't made in a long while!

The dog is back to normal and still alive.
The weeds are drying out and turning brown.

I will write later when my life involves more interesting things!
Have a good night!
Trisha

ZZzzZZZZZzzz?!!! Clomp clomp ZZZZZZZZzzzzZZ?!! Clomp.....

I am so tired and I have a headache. Cruiser kept me up a second night now asking to go out during the night many times to go diarea. I stressed the entire night thinking he's got a chicken bone lodged in his intestine....Upon further inspection this morning, he has been eating woodchips. ARRRRRGHHH! stupid dog likes being miserable and making me miserable in the process! I couldn't just stick him outside and go back to sleep cause everytime we've done that in the past he's barked at the stupidest things ALL night.

I so badly need to get out of here! I want to go to Disneyland and just see something new. I'm sick of this house and the tiring routine of working 10 days and getting 4 days off with having to be the only living thing completely in charge of maintaining this dump of a house and doing all the cooking and cleaning. I'm tired tired tired. and I can't get any sleep at all cause of the stupid rock hard mattress and the squirting dog.

I'm right back to where I started and actually have worse blacker bags under my eyes. and feel so miserable and I have work today and for the next 9 days also and I found out I have been placed on working the next church camp which will fall on my next 4 day OFF weekened! oh the luck! Will I sleep better there? But it's not Disneyland...... and I can't imagine resting well and only getting more tired and exhausted like everytime only this time I'll start out completely exhausted cause that's how my 10 working days always end. I usually look foward to this camp with excitement and anticipation..... and I actually dread having to go this time cause I'm exhausted. I'll be on my feet the entire time... hardly any sleep.... working hard to get the food all finished on time... having to make conversation and try make sense with what my tired mind is trying to say... at least I'll give everyone something to laugh at if I'm not a complete grouch!

I keep thinking I should just go lie down and try to sleep and then I don't even want to go back in that room cause the beds so hard and it's hard to fall asleep and I am worried the dog will only try to wake me as soon as my eyes actually fall asleep! Plus the added stress that if I close my eyes, will I not hear the alarm and sleep right through work?

This morning I finally decided enough is enough and at the 6:00 wakening by the squirting dog, I tapped my husband -your turn. It took some effort to finally get him out of bed- "he's your dog- I've been up all night with him..." he goes opens the door, and Cruiser's still trying to get me up I had to keep telling him go the doors open go potty go away go potty.................. and he finally went to the door and TURNED BACK AROUND AND TRIED FRANTICALLY TO GET ME UP cause I'm the only one who lets him out in the morning usually, and I felt so bad cause he tried to jump up and tell me and he hit his mouth on the platform board and he's already miserable and apparently he wants me and....so I rolled out of bed and stood by the door and my husband went back to sleep........ All that effort wasted. was it worth it? so I watched through blurry eyes as the dog did yet again another splattering squirt and squated around for a bit, then came in proud as can be.
HE'S SO SPOILED!

Only to find out it's because of woodchips.... HHHMMMPHHH!

will write more when I'm in a better mood and less tired.

Hope your day has cute cheeping chicks and bunnies and flowers unlike mine!
Goodnight.
Trisha

Groan...

Thats me right now. I ate too much today. 1 slice pizza for breakfast, and some candy. Lunch included a full plate of a filet mignon, one bun, potato casserole, beans, veggies and dip, and a bowl of jello. I also drank a cup of punch with 7 up in it. Then I ate more candy, had white chocolate mouse with raspberries, and then more candy. On the way home, I thought I was hungry so we stopped at Eribertos mexican resturant and I got a plate of a cheese enchilada, a HUGE beef burrito, and some most delicious beans and rice. That rice was SOOOOOOOOOO good! I havn't had rice that good in a while! I could only eat the beans and rice, one bite of enchilada, and 3 bites of my burrito. about a 1/4th of the entire meal! I am stuffed.

POSITIVELY STUFFED.

I am so full, I'm afraid I have over-eaten. but my jello was good! after my failed mexican meal, I really had to fight the urge to eat some jello. I usually eat to much then force myself to eat something good after just cause it tastes good. I couldn't do it this time or I would've popped!

But MMMMMMM! I had such good food today!

Will write more tomarrow! I have tomarrow off! wish me luck on the hard slate bed tonight!
Goodnight!
Trisha
P.S. I'll be dreaming of rice and beans! MMMMMMM! oh! and that potato casserole! I had to fight the urge for seconds of that cause I was too full after lunch for more!

Here it is!

HAPPY EASTER!

This is my first jello salad EVER.

before whipped cream and marshmallows

The layers bottom to top: Strawberry jello, Strawberry jello with fresh chopped strawberries, raspberry jello, strawberry jello and cream, strawberry jello.

The final layer, marshmallows and whipped cream

next up: try figure out how to make it level for setting on a sloped fridge shelf for next time. I knew about the slope, but I chose to ignore it and just see how it turned out. I planned on turning the bowl with each new layer. Too much work aparently I couldn't see to well which side was thickest... oh well it'll still taste good!

poky topping texture

all of it. MMMM I can't wait to try it!!!! (should be good!)

HERE'S THE BED!!!!

the bed with 2 nightstands

Beautiful drawers under the bed and one nightstand

The ugly bugly headboard. but I decided to go with this bed cause it has all the features I was looking for and my husband likes the padded headboard "It's comfortable to lean up against for reading books." That sold me on it even though I don't like how it looks. Maybe we can stain it brown or black or something to make it look better...

This kept me up all night. Doesn't he look inocently cute? "Who me?????" He started puking literally right after I posted my blog last night about 5-6 times within a 1/2 hour. Chicken bones, grass, food, ?????, and ??????. Then he had to keep moving around during the night re-adjusting, and drinking water and made me take him out 2 times during the night. Diarea. I hope all is done now and he'll not eat an entire cooked chicken carcass again for as long as he lives...



needless to say, I'm tired for Easter. The mattress was so rock hard also and I had to keep turning over and over and over... So I hope it softens soon. But my arms didn't fall asleep! The one in the store was nice.

I'm waiting for my husband to get ready so we can go to his parents house for Easter.

Cruiser smells like puke even though he didn't get any on him. It must be his breath. Anyone want to brush his teeth? I don't. And we seriously just gave him a bath a few days ago! Oh well. at least he felt clean while he was miserable trying to digest undigestable things!

Well, I'm going to go get my day started and it's Easter! and I feel like eating really cheesy spicy mexican food! with beans and rice and... oh dear. If I eat that, no one will want me around them at the table.

So I'll just satisfy myself with pizza.

Happy Easter!

Trisha

Bed

My bed has arrived and It is beautiful except the headboard. but oh well I have a bed. The dog is feeling better and acting more like himself, and I ate 2 bowls of icecream and a bowl of jello today and candy.
I went to work, and my bed delivery was late, I washed laundry. I made a beautiful layered jello salad for tomarrow. I ate pizza 3 times today breakfast, lunch, and supper.

Now you are updated on how my day went. I'll post some pictures tomarrow of my bed and jello. stay posted.

Happy early Easter!

Goodnight,
Trisha

MMMMMM

homemade pizza and peeps and an Easter basket.
 I made 4 pizzas today just because. I also bought some candy at the store, and I went to church and my mom made me an Easter basket and gave it to me early cause she's not going to see me on Easter Sunday. 
OHHHHH the delicious loot in there! I got to see my adorable little nephew and me and my mom taught him the cutest little trick ever!

He's so adorable when he does it!

Me and my husband went to the mattress store again and traded mattresses. The new one comes tomarrow. I have been sleeping like a rock while my husband says he hasn't slept for a week. (even though everytime I woke up he apeared to be asleep...) Aparently it wasn't restful enough for him though. So anyways, The new mattress comes between 9 and 12, I leave for work at 9:30, the bedframe comes at 2. I'll have a whole new bed when I come home from work!!!!

Anyways, while we were shopping for a new mattress, the dog decided to eat an entire chicken carcass, skin, guts, and bones out of the garbage can. everything! I had just bought a rottiserie chicken, took the meat off, put the meat in the fridge, and threw the rest out. We came home to a suspiciously guilty looking dog. I told my husband that he's going to die,.. he's going to bleed to death internaly,... we're going to have a dead dog by tonight or tomarrow..... then I took a shower and left for church. I came home to learn my husband looked online to find out what to do if a dog eats cooked chicken bones (the raw ones are fine cause they're not so brittle and break into shards), and he cooked him up a pot of rice cause that's what it said to do. so puppy has been lazing around trying to digest his delicious tasting bones, and his bellyfull of rice. He was so tired, he hardly begged for the candy we were eating... poor puppy! I hope the rice works!

anyways, that was my day today. I also went shopping for groceries.

So I'll go to bed now and enjoy my nice caccoon of a bed tonight for the last night cause were getting a new one tomarrow! and my bedframe! and I only work 3-4 1/2 hours tomarrow! and I get Sunday and Monday off! excitments in the air! can you smell it? I can and I can feel it too! I feel like running around in the amber waves of grain in my backyard! but I might step on glass or bird poop or get a picker in my toe, or one of the million aphids and bugs in my yard might land on me... Guess I'll only imagine it's a green lawn with dandilions and bunnies and Easter eggs hiding all over!

Easter is almost here! and my mom gave me an Easter basket with Easter grass in it! I had to smell it as soon as I was alone with it! Smells better than even the candy! Just like I remember! It must be Easter!

Anyways, goodnight to you, and don't let the bed bugs bite! Or the aphids!
Trisha.
P.S. I'll be dreaming my backyard of brown weeds I call amber waves of grain is like the perfect picture if Easter complete with lush green lawn, bunnies, Easter eggs, and the dewey morning sun shining softly trying to get up.... crisp cool air of the morning just like when my dad would open the big slider door in the early morning before we all got up and 28 degree air blew in so crisp and cool-HEY! did you know I do that now??????? I do. anyways, goodnight. ZZZZZZZZZZZ....zZ..zzzz.ZZZZZ....

one hundred seventy seven dollars!

We brought all the scrap metal I've been piling up even though every day I hear a complaint about how we should just stick it by the side of the road and put an add on craigslist..... from my husband. He finaly helped me load it up and brought me down there.

It was quite the process getting it all weighed and we ended up making $177 on it. nice huh? I asked my husband "why did you put it in your pocket? isn't it mine?" He said "No it's our's." So now even though I had to endure complaints every day about my "junk", I now also have to share it. Oh well. at least I know it was worth something like I always was telling him! :-)

But $177! sheesh! who would have thought! The copper brought in the most of it all. They pay $1 lb and I had $121.60 worth of it! Wow! I'm still amazed!

I've been having to work late at work staying after to finish things so have today, and tomarrow off, will work saturday for lunch, and have Sunday and Monday off. nice huh? I think so. Thats almost 5 days!

I have been cleaning today at my house cause I've not felt like cleaning all week with having to stay later at work all week, so I'm playing catchup and it isn't difficult at all. I just have to mop and dust then wipe down the kitchen and bathrooms.
laundry, sweeping, dishes, picking up and washing out the microwave are already done! and bonus, we got rid of the pile of scrap metal!

anyways, hope your days going as great as mine! that is if your cleaning! If not, hope you finish today feeling as accomplished in whatever your doing as I am!
Trisha

measurements

I got a delicious recipe from my boss the chef. It's for wild rice chicken casserole and it is delishious, and it serves 45 people. It is in pounds, ounces, pints and quarts. it also has teaspoons, and tablespoons as in 4 fluid ounces, and 3 tablespoons of butter.   ?????!!!?????? What?????!!???

I guess I should have tried harder to learn math in school! I'll have fun cutting the recipe down to serve 2.....

It also says in the directions: "To enhance the food presentation it is our standard that all menu items are finished with a colorful garnish. All garnishes are to be prepared ahead of time and served in accordance with the standardized ...Garnishing Program. Use only garnishes that are edible and durable enough to withstand hot or cold tempuratures..."

What will I do? I am going to skip this step. I hope it won't change the flavor.  :-P

Sheesh! such strict laws they have to follow just to serve some food! But that recipe is so wonderful and the 2 times I've had it I've liked it. So now I can make it at home! after I get a headache trying to figure out the math!

My new mattress is wonderful! I slept pretty well on it and only woke up a few times in the night and woke up on my side! Such wonderful changes! I sleep more and it's apparently comfortable and feels like I'm on clouds when I lay on my back! And I will only have to get used to sleeping in a smaller space! I guess I used to stretch out all over on our cal king bed!

I cut open the old mattress today to see why it failed. I can't tell. but Cruiser loved it! He snorted and groaned and rolled all over that thing and sniffed it like it was the most facinating thing to smell! He was so funny!

I am going to get ready for bed now. these late nights are getting to me and I'll become a night owl again and the bags under my eyes will never go away! I always wake up with the sun so I gotta race it to bed so I can get close to 8 hours!

Goodnight!
Trisha

YES!!!!!

I'm SOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED!!!!!!!

I have a bed! a mattress, 2 nightstands, and a platform bed frame! A bed! I'm so happy! I can sleep tonight!

I'll have to take pictures when we get the frame in about a week. If they had the boxes of the frame at the store, I'd have loaded it in my car, but they'll deliver it for free and set it up too!

I only had to work 2.5 hours today because I was almost out of hours for this week. I said "Oh dang it." without any feeling cause I was excited that I'd get a Saturday almost off! Does that make me horrible?

We decided we'd get a mattress today cause we'd have time to. I didn't expect to find a frame too!

Squishy memory foam pillow top!

The new bed frame with nightstands will take up the entire wall except 1/2 inch.

I hope it fits!

Cruiser's exhausted from all this shopping!

Here's the roof getting done! We're still waiting for the final coat for the foam to be applied.

Cruiser's been having fun following 2 baby birds around trying to smell them. He looks so cute, but I'm terrified he'll try pick them up and hurt them accidently so I try keep him in and have to babysit him when he goes outside.

All these pictures are of the same bird. This one's not as scared. The other tries to move away fast but it moves like a little cute baby and I feel so bad when it trips so I stay away from them and try keep the dog away.

They're cute baby starlings. I think that's the name of the black bird with a dark yellow beak. They have such hard working parents! both babies are pudgy! I just want to pick them up and hold them but won't let myself and just look but not touch- I don't like to interrupt family time which happens every 1/2 minute or so. Very attentive parents who are constantly feeding them with every visit and one always stays on guard watching. it's so cute!



 Well, I'm going to go finish the laundry. We had to buy a new mattress pad cause we have a queen bed now instead of california king, and I'm washing the sheets and blankets so we can start out fresh with the new bed.

So exciting! Newness all over again! Feels like Christmas! I can't wait till we get new sheets cause then they'll fit but I'll have to do extra folding tonight when I put cal king sheets on cause my husband wants to buy his sheets from a particular store he says will be better quality for a better price than Target. So Tuesday Morning soon it will be. maybe we can even go there on Tuesday morning!

So I can't wait for the dryer to get done so I can put those sheets on so I can go to bed and sleep! The sales guy said the mattress will probably take up to 30 days to break in, but I'm sure it's better than our old mattress already!

Goodnight!

Trisha

Peeling and complaints

My face and scalp are peeling! EEEEWWWW! I am grossed out cause I have work today and I'll have to face all my residents with dead skin flapping in the breeze. EEEEWW!

I have been working all day the last 2 days. I was just too tired so I didn't write. But I'm still alive!

I have been just lazing around lately and I think it's the effects of our horrible mattress catching up to me cause I have been working a lot more, and not getting enough deep sleep even though I get at least 8 hours at night.

I find myself waking up all night long either changing position, trying to massage life back into my overly numb dead feeling arms, or trying to find a way to lay that I can breathe, but doesn't hurt my back. I have been finding myself waking up on my belly the last couple of mornings which is odd cause my neck used to always be so sore when I'd wake up like that, but it's the best position now or my back hurts worse! Ohh well. it's time for a new mattress I think.

Many times as I try fall asleep trying to relax the cramps in my back I think I should just spread out a blanket on the floor.... but then I tell myself just be thankful you have a mattress and your hip bones at least don't hurt from it like the floor would cause. So I just keep changing positions till my back don't hurt and eventually fall asleep.

My roof is done except the final coating on the patio! finally! I am strangely looking foward to my next weekened off cause I have plans to go through the treasures in the garage with my husband! I just figure the sooner we go through the junk, the sooner The largest peice of work will be done. I just wish my house was painted already! Then I could just start moving in the things I want to keep!

It seems there are all these plans and nothing gets done around here.

Oh well. It will all be over soon I'm sure. I just wish I had cookies to eat while I wait. but I don't have chocolate chips...
Have a good day!
Trisha

ZZZZZZZzzzzzzz....

I'm tired but I had fun today.

Me and my husband went to about 20 different stores all over the valley looking for a bedframe we liked. We tried out some mattresses and saw lots of cool things we never knew existed.

We have been looking for a long time for a REAL platform bed. come to find out, "everyone" as the salespeople put it wants a mock platform bed. but I call it a frame with the foot board cut down. I think a TRUE platform bed is a sheet of wood that carries through completely from the foot of the bed to the headboard. and sticks out from under the mattress a ways. more than the 2 inches the bed frames they carry have.

one higher-end place told us they can make us a custom one for $11,000! (not to be confused with $1,000 or $1,100.) just think! I shouldn't have even had to think twice! ....I had to go home and measure first..... not. we just told the lady we'd see first if we could find one already made.

THESE ONES WE FOUND ONLINE:

 This one we found at Copenhagen- not quite what we were looking for, but my husband liked it. The sales lady said it had "floating nightstands" this one has a true footboard and frame thats shortened. not a true platform...

We both liked this one. The picture really doesn't look nice. I should have taken one wih my camara instead.

this one was only about a foot off the floor though... and no drawers...

 

Yes distractions are cool- this was a cool bench/couch I saw... it had just the charecteristics I would like in a bed frame...

 behind the couch part, there was a cool wood shelving unit also off the ground.

 We finally decided this one will do.. it has the drawers we were hoping for under it,

and the bench on the foot of the bed. the only problem is we can't see it in person, only online, but we found a company who will order it for us. So we need to think about it a bit longer cause we can't return it if it's only 1/2 a foot off the floor... and my husband says it looks like the drawers are made cheap just from zooming in at the picture...

Anyways, we had fun. we ate lunch at Chick-Fil-A and ate supper at Denny's.

now I am washing clothes and our sheets and blankets cause I start work again tomarrow. It feels like I shouldn't work there anymore. I never feel like going back after my 4 days off. I just feel like sleeping and lazing around the house. but I guess it wouldn't be "work" then right? I sure like my paycheck, and am always being encouraged there that I'm doing a great job so why don't I want to go back after my weekeneds?

I'm getting exited at the thought I will have a real bed soon! I tried out the most perfect bed that just felt absolutely gorgeous and I could have fallen asleep right there with people walking all around me except I had to get up so my husband could try it and he said it didn't feel nice. So HHHMMPHHH! We'll just have to buy 2 different ones and we each can have our own rooms! Not. and we did find a mattress we agreed on a couple weeks ago but I kinda liked that brand we tried out today! It felt cheap though like it wouldn't last too long... oh well I guess we'll have to splurge for comfort we both agree on! But I can't wait!

I got so burned at the Sunday school picnic yesterday. I burned my eyes too. I'll have lots of fun tomarrow at work trying to convince everyone I'm just tanned and not burned cause that's what my husband told me about an hour before we left the picnic when I told him I was burned and we should go home... But I had lots of fun. I drank 2 pops and ate 2 cookies and 2 brownie bites and a burger and 3 pickle slices just because and a licorice. I visited and sunbathed cause it was too freezing cold to sit in the shade without a jacket and I didn't bring one... So now I'll have a farmers tan. but I had fun!

Oh well. I'm not the only one who got burned there!

Well, gotta go check the dryer to see if the buzzer is telling the truth that the clothes are indeed dry!

Write more later!

Trisha



waiting............

I am waiting for my husband to get up so we can go to the Sunday School Picnic!
I took a shower, and did my hair.

I don't know if it's a little girls style, but I did it up that way anyways.
do you know how many pictures I had to take till I either didn't get my face or got all my hair in there????
Look and apreciate all the hard work that went into making this picture. I don't know if I ever had my hair up this fancy shmancy before, but it is now, and I put it up wet and put so much hairspray in it's crunchy!

Well, I was going to load more pictures (cropped of course) but now it won't let me so sorry! just pretend you see everything!

I need to go get some water, camping chairs, and the seeder we're borrowing to my sister. We are going to the picnic!
Bye!
Trisha

Yay!

Rain, Cold, Clouds= NO HEADACHE TODAY!

how does that work??? Wait... I don't care I don't have a headache!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yesterday I got a late start on the other house cause I decided to wait for my husband. He spent the whole time there working on electrical. I trimmed the bushes out front, washed windows, cleaned the kitchen sink, and then played "what lights turned on now" with my husband so he could figure out the electrical box.

That place is wired up weird! It's looking tons cleaner, and I don't think I'd mind spending the night there now! I havn't seen a roach since the plumming issues were taken care of, so they aparently where comming up from the sewer. EEEEEEEEWWWWWWW!!!!!!!

See? I think it looks much better!

standing by the front door

laundry room

kitchen

living room

bathroom

master bedroom

extra bedroom

hallway

tomarrow will be the Church's Annual Sunday School Picnic! I'm excited and hope the rain will be gone by then and the weather will warm up! I always have fun there. probably cause when I was little, there was just too much fun to be had there! Between the pool of pop, to the water fights, to the huge lines of red rover red rover send __________ right over, to the LOOOOONG line for food that always stands in the direct line of smoke from the grills, to the sunburn you start feeling halfway through the picnic.... oooh the fun!

I can't wait.

We will be going to the other house today cause the store room still needs to be drywalled and painted, the electrical still needs to be finished, and I didn't feel like mopping the laundry room floor and the water heater closet needs to be washed out... anything else? I don't know! Almost done done done!!!

My husband told me he is sleeping in today so we might get started at 2PM, but at least maybe he'll get up early enough to be on time for the picnic!

It's fun to look outside at the rain. I guess this is one of the few times I can actually enjoy it!
I have great pland to make up some Chickens in the Road cake mixes just cause it sounds like fun!

Have a good day!
Trisha

Excitment

I cleaned the other house's bathroom and I scrubbed and scrubbed it. It took a couple of hours and now it actually looks decent! The realtor is going to take pictures today and I wanted it to sparkle cause the kitchen and bathroom are what sell a home. I know that what is there is not worth anything, but I can at least make it clean and as welcoming as possible!

Both me and my husband were scraping off the old caulking from the moldy tub and floor. I still don't know how they managed to get caulking everywhere! all over the sides of the shower walls, about 1-2 inches smeared along each side of every crack they caulked including around the toilet and baseboards... lots of scraping...

 But the results are well worth the work! Now after it dries, either today or tomarrow, he'll caulk around the tub. thats it. the grout along the walls and toilet are perfectly fine and look brand new. No need for excess anymore and never needed to be done in the first place! :-)

So I'm excited. My house will now be next and I can live life again cause it's almost done!

I am hoping to go there today and trim the bushes and clean out the kitchen sink, mop the laundryroom and do any last minute final details I can find so that when my husband finishes work, he won't have much to do and it will be done faster. maybe he can work on my house on Saturday then RIGHT???

I'll try take pictures and post them when I go there.

Bye!
Trisha

Arrgh

I had another nausious migraine lastnight and all day yesterday. How lucky I am! 2 in 1 week!

I'll be glad when the weather evens out to either hot or cold and no clouds come. I asked myself that why can't we have rain without clouds? I like rain, but don't care for the headaches the clouds bring.

My boss the chef told me I looked terrible last night and told me to go home early. I didn't care. I went to bed 8:30PM and woke up 6:57AM -No headache! I am scared to do anything cause I don't want it back. I folded and put away laundry and started to feel it come a little and stopped. How do you get anything done if your scared of headaches?

Cruiser is a terrible horrible no good very bad dog today. I cut a pinapple and an apple and toasted some bread and made a lunch for my man. I also set aside a plate of food for me to eat after he left- some pinapple, some apple and a ham bun. The entire time I was in the kitchen, Cruiser would eye my bun and ask me for it and I would say no. he waited till I helped my man bring all his treasures out to his truck to jump up and grab and scarf down my sandwich as quick as he could and then acted innocent and brought me into the kitchen and asked me for my bun! like he had no idea it wasn't there! I didn't know it wasn't there till I looked at the plate! OHHHHHHH that dog! He has the innocent look perfected and you feel you get nowhere when you tell him no and show him your plate! I could do nothing but try not to laugh. he is too spoiled I guess. He only does what he wants.

I am so excited for this weekened! 4 whole days of no work! I have big plans to do nothing! My husband has big plans to work on the other house to do the last few things. I get to clean the rest of it I guess... Yuck! My husband did tell me he quick wiped down the toilet though! So it shouldn't be too bad I hope!

well, I'm going to start my day. write more later!
Trisha

My new schedual

I made a graph for my chores. I have tried making lists for each day or for the week all the chores that need to be done and I never finished them cause I got overwhelmed just looking at it. I tried making a calender with chores labeled out for each day and that idea failed also. The Flylady way seemed to make me overwhelmed also with her big list of chores to do with some stuff I thought were unneccesary as there are only 2 of us and we don't dirty things as fast as apparently flylady does. So that plan backfires almost everytime I try it. It also seems just the weeks I have no time to do Flylady cause either work or other things, she puts the most time consuming chores for that week and I am set for failure.

So I decided to make my own set of things- just the basics that will get done each day during the ten days I'm working so it's all stretched out and when my 4 day weekened comes, I won't have to clean so heavily and have no catchup weekened for housecleaning and can instead rest and relax.

And I put it into a graph

For some reason, only this makes sense to me. I don't feel overwhemed looking at it, and can easily see without too much clutter (writing) for each day what needs to be done. and if you don't think I'm cleaning everything properly- enough during the week, you don't need to come over then. It also is just so the basics get done. For example- I'll quickwipe the bathrooms down more often than that when I find extra time, just the deep cleaning will be once every other week. Everything else I'm sure people won't care too much and it's my house anyways so this is how I'm going to do it.

And I thought of it all by myself!

I'll write more later, either wednesday night or thursday.
My long day for this week is tomarrow.
Have a Great day!
Trisha

Efficient Me

Today I feel effecient and full of energy. I know that it's because I've started eating fruit and veggies lately. I went to Pro's on Wednesday and stocked up. For some reason I stopped eating fresh fruit and veggies.

The weather is beautiful! I have my doors and windows open!

I have scrubbed my bathroom till it shined and cleaned my kitchen and did the dishes. Then I pulled the last few weeds out of the front my husband missed,- we had a ton out there- he must have spent a lot of time out there pulling! and cut my cactus so it doesn't branch out in mid air like the vandilizer set it up to do. I then watered my front plants. I am very proud of myself cause I havn't done that much all at once to my house since I got my new position!

Clean shiny bathroom sink!

Clean shiny kitchen with the big dishes handwashed and drying!

My fresh cut cactus trimmed. It was so hard for me to trim it. But I knew it had to be done.

 Look what I found! a new bud! It's near the very bottom so I'll have a 2 pronged cactus again for a while, but I know next year it will have a new 3rd branch- if it survives this brutal trimming I gave it! I'm so excited and have new hope for this cactus!

 Here are the trimmings. I'm debating if It's worth it to try grow them in case my cactus dies, or if they will just branch out ugly. I think I'll give them a week to dry out and plant them in pots just in case and then from these new ones, I'll make a cutting from a new branch to start a new nice plant just how I want it. Will take many years though!

look! My elephant food plants are coming back! They froze so bad I thought they died!

I have finally devised a plan I think will work for me -a strange new way of shcedualing that finally clicks with me! a graph! I know I'm strange, but then I've never thought about things the same way most people do! This I understand and don't get confused or overwhelmed looking at!

Anyways, I gotta go cause I have to leave for work in 20 minutes!
Bye!
Trisha

My weird day

Today I got up about 6:45AM or so. That was weird cause lately I've been able to sleep in at least till 7:30 or 8.

7:20AM I got a call from work that someone didn't show up and they were 20 minutes late. so I decided I had to go in early. I took off my pjs and was getting ready to get dressed when they called back that they showed up. So I put my pjs back on and finished loading the dishwasher. That was weird.

My husband got up early. That was weird.

We decided to go out to eat for breakfast, went to the car, and noticed a fire department crises response car and a police car out front. Our neighbor told us the man across the street died in his sleep during the night. He was really sick. I'm happy he is no longer suffering. That was weird.

So we went out to eat. no waiting at the resturant and we got a seat right away. Every time we have driven by there, there's always been a crowd outside waiting to get in. That was weird.

We ate, and came home just in time to see the mortuary loading Mr. Expired into the back of an unmarked white van. Unmarked???? I guess they don't advertise. That was weird. Who took him?

I then recieved 2 phone calls about 1/2 an hour apart from 2 of my employees saying they each were sick and couldn't come in today. one with a "sore throat who couldn't swallow" but sounded instead like they had just woken up. The other very cheerfully said they had stopped somewhere to eat on the way home last night and it's now not agreeing with them- but was also the same person telling me last minute last week they couldn't work Sunday even though they were already schedualed and were hired to work Sundays. 2 in one day?? Now we were short on the floor today. That was weird. (I think they both were lying).

I went to work 10:30 and I struggled and ran around and sweated and stressed to do all the work the morning people decided not to do and ended up still plating up pies up until the very minute I was to be out in the dining room taking orders. Why didn't the servers have it done? they know what to do! That was weird.

We were short for lunch with me also having to take a section with no foodrunner. We were also very short for dinner.But I had absolutely no trouble getting the other employees to stay and help out for the dinner shift so I could still leave 5:30 to go to a reception for my brother in law and new sister in law who eloped.
I got out on time and everyone was OK when I left and in happy moods. THAT WAS REALLY WEIRD.

I went to the reception and had fun. I got to laugh at my cute little nephew eating (he eats so cute!) and see family and welcome my new sister in law to the family and congratulate my brother in law.

I had a small headache from all the stress caused by work, but it went away at the reception, so I think it was stress related. That was weird it went away and didn't get worse as usual! :-)

My day ended up being good after all. JUST EXTREMELY WEIRD. I hope I never have a day this weird again as long as I live! Everything somehow all worked out in the end! Just made me stress out about it in the process though!

Anyways, Goodnight!
Trisha

Yuck

warning: Graphic Details- read at your own risk.

I hate migraines!

If you've never had one, your way to lucky and don't even know how lucky you are!

Yesterday my little nephew turned 1- his golden birthday! He was adorable! I got him some goofy toys! I enjoyed his birthday and had fun celebrating with him! He seemed to enjoy every second of it!

all day yesterday I also had a headache. I could hardly eat anything for supper, and felt so horribly bad I couldn't celebrate his birthday with cake or anything, cause I felt nausious at the thought and the smell of it all. but I knew it would taste good. And it looked good too. But I couldn't eat.

After I got home, even the crisp clean sheets on my bed did little to make me feel better! I woke up at 2:30AM feeling a horrible sharp pain in my head. Not being able to fall back asleep, I got up, drank a little water, went to the bathroom, let the dog out, and tried to sleep again.
If anyone has had a migraine you know how this is. I had to get up fast with an urge to puke and did so in the toilet. Feeling so horrible all day I then realized why I felt so queasy! My body wouldn't digest anything cause it was under to much stress with pain and I actually threw up my lunch on further exploration. So the thought comes to my head that why didn't it make me throw up earlier? I ate lunch at 2:00 PM -12 1/2 hours later I threw it up. weird. Migraines mess with your body!

I felt so gross and queasy after so I drank some water brushed my teeth and tried to go back to sleep. less than a minute later, I had to run to the toilet and up came the water and the rest of lunch and all I'd eaten!

I lay there moaning cause my head only hurt worse and told my husband "III--II-I     W-W-W-ant TYLONAL!" and he goes we don't have tylonal? I said nope and he said why didn't you say so earlier?
He said he had some in his truck so I took some, and had to fight the urge not to throw up again so the tylonal could work and everytime I lay down I had the urge so I had to make myself sit up- ever try sit up when your body feels so bad and you start falling asleep in 2 seconds but the pounding won't let you? and you feel so queasy and gross and keep falling over? surprisingly, the tylonal started to work! usually it doesn't. It knocked me out! probably with shock it worked! I didn't get up till 8:40AM I still feel a little bit of headache, but it's not bad at all just a nuisance!

So that's how my day started!

If you've never had a migraine, count yourself one of the luckiest people on the planet.
I've come to realize I don't think I've ever had a true headache! They never feel any different, but the levels of pain are different with each one- they all feel like a migraine! I can't believe I got so lucky! Migraines only for me!

Enough! I have only 2 hours before I have to go to work again and I am hoping it will go away.
and I'm exhausted already!

That's how my day is so far
Hope yours started better!
Trisha