Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

12:12pm

       The buzzer that Brian set went off at 5am, and I crawled my tired butt out of bed, and made coffee. Of course, Brian stayed in the bed til almost 6, and when he got up he immediately started picking on Mr. Sully, and telling him that he had to go to work and answer phones for him today.

       Seeing as the shower room is a disaster area, with all the paint and things scattered everywhere to kingdom come with tape and everything else, neither of us could shower today. I’m going to do something about that when I finally get home this afternoon, at least clear the way for a shower, and to wash our hands in the sink.

       We left on time today, even early, cause we weren’t expecting to see Mama until later this morning, because she had a dentist appointment today, first thing, but she was here, running out the door as we pulled up.

       That gave me time to wrap her present from Daddy, their anniversary is today, and he got her the prettiest diamond/amethyst earrings, but she doesn’t know it yet.

       Brian was on the other line when the phone rang, so I answered it, and walked a customer through setting up her email in her new Windows Mail. I am pretty proud of myself, and she was pleased with me as well. It was really easy, all it took was some patience and know-how, and she was very nice. I like answering phone calls like that.

       I soon realized while preparing to wrap the gift, that I had left the bow, and this pretty ornament that I was going to attach to the bow that spells “love”, at home. Brian left his watch, and he asked me to bring back his Dallas Cowboys mug as well, so I went home, and petted Sambo, and talked to Mr. Sully and Mrs. Maelee and finished wrapping the gift.

       Mama got back from the dentist on my way back to her house, and then Granny came in with Daddy’s clothes. She irons them every week, and does a fine job I might add. We visited for a long while, and Granny brought over some pictures of my cousin, Stephanie, in her wedding dress. She’s getting married in Mexico this week, and they are all down there for the wedding. I hope she looks beautiful on her wedding day, and really knocks her groom’s socks off.

       We would have liked to have went, but I’m sure we won’t be missed. If it would have been in Florida, or Texas, we probably would have gone, but Cancun is just too far away. I can’t drive there, and airfare is expensive.

       I got my sewing machine in while Granny was here, and we took it out of the box, and Granny helped me figure out what all the feet and accessories are for, and what to do with them. Mama mentioned that I don’t have a table to set up here, and she volunteered to buy me one, and I jumped on that, happy to have a new sewing table.

       Granny got ready to go, and I remembered I have to marinate my pork chops for at least 4 hours, so I got started on that, and finished before she was out the door. It’s a honey/lemon/mint/cayenne/olive oil mixture, and I’m hoping it will be good, cause I don’t think I’ve ever had mint or honey with pork. I’m excited though, cause it has a spicy cayenne kick.

       I finally sat down, I feel like I’ve been running all day, one blur to the next blur. I checked out walmart.com, to see what all folding tables Rayville has in store, and I found a 5foot one for 37 dollars, which I think is a good deal, and I’m also getting a pair of scissors, courtesy of Mama & Daddy.

       I started looking at sewing machine tables online, and found a beautiful one, called Olivia 1001. The price tag on this thing is OUTRAGEOUS, costing $569.00. Hell I can buy a small pretty little desk and stick it on that, for less than that! I don’t HAVE to have that table! No, that’s just too much, I told Brian not to even bother.

       I had a salad for breakfast this morning. Spring Mix, tomatoes, red onion, feta cheese, croutons, and Olive Garden’s salad dressing (600 calories, cause I ate some feta all by itself in the process of making it). I figure feta (300) croutons (100) Salad dressing (200) = 600. And I’ve had coffee today (200)= 800. Salads are not low-cal anymore. They can be seriously high in calories, as just proved by me. I could have had a dang steak for that.

       So I’m not eating again until dinner, or that’s my plan, because if my sugar acts up, I’ll have to eat something, but hopefully it won’t. Mama has some fresh asparagus she’s trying to get rid of some of it, so we’ll have that tonight with our Greek Honey Pork Chops.

       I’m so glad for the good weather. I started the day with jeans on, and then on the way back to my house, I rolled down the windows a little bit, and let the air in, and felt a little hot, because I’m becoming accustomed to this weather. Lord, Please don’t let it get hot again! Cause it’s wonderful right now…..how I love fall, especially after a hot summer.

       Our house needs a bit of work on it. Some of the gutter has fallen down in the front, and we need new siding on the overhang, so we’ve decided to put off putting in a flower bed, until spring. In just a couple of months, we should have our overhang fixed, and our well dug, and there will be no more traffic to trample my little plants, and we can plant flowers then, though I would already love to this fall.

       Brian suggested planting flowers around the trees in the front, and I believe I will do that. I’m wondering if Peonies grow in this region, I’d love to have some growing in my yard, they were in my wedding bouquet, after all. J If I can just keep Mr. Sambo out of them!

       A friend of mine, Danielle, suggested putting cayenne pepper around my plants, and I may very well do that, if it truly does help, but that will be a lot of dang cayenne pepper. I could always reduce his electric fence, and that may very well be what I have to do, for a while, until he quits digging.

       I cleaned the windows in the front last night, and from the road, the front looks so much better! It’s amazing what a little windex, and detail work will do. I’m sorry it took me so long to do it.

       It’s Wednesday, and I didn’t walk Monday or Tuesday, yet I’m still sore today, from putting up trim, and walking around the house for 4 hours yesterday, cleaning and washing clothes, and cooking. I wonder if all that counts as exercise?

       There was this one app on Brian’s phone…called LIVESTRONG, that was awesome! It had every calorie known to man on it, from cleaning to sleeping, to taking a shower, it had it. I could count my calories in and out, and figure out my calorie deficit every day. I would put it on my android tablet if I could, but I don’t think they make it for android, or they didn’t last time I checked, but I will check again today, now that I’m thinking about it, cause Android has really become just as popular if not more so than Iphone.

       I got in my beautiful new wreath, that I had intentions of putting outside my door, but when I opened it up and looked at it, I’ve decided to put it inside my home. I’m going to take a picture of it when I get it hung, and show it on facebook, cause it’s just too pretty.

10:05pm

       Brian and I are sitting in the living room, and he’s watching Snow White and the Huntsman, and I just can’t watch it, it’s too evil for me, as is Family Guy which we watched tonight, and I had to go pray, and get the filth off of me after watching watching just one scene.

       This world is so evil, it’s just so hard to even watch anything anymore. Corrupted and deceitful ideas abound, and get in our subconscious, and we don’t even realize it, but I do, and I am on guard.

       I finished putting on the primer tonight in my bathroom. I feel so good to have that done and started, cause we’ve had that paint since last Friday, and here it is almost a week later. It already feels better in there, and bigger, without the red walls. Tomorrow, I’ve got to find out how to do the texturizing, so I can finish it up.

       I can’t seem to convince Brian that this mess gets in your subconscious. He doesn’t believe me. He’s stubborn and hard headed.

       I’m hoping my paint is will turn out a lot darker than my primer, and I think it will, though I can’t be sure. I want a steel blue color, and this color was the closest to that I could find, and both Brian and I liked it best, and agreed on it.

       Today I’ve had salad (600) coffee (200) nuts (300) trail mix (160) pork chop (290) potato (100) cheese (90) lite sour cream (50) = 1790 for the day. And I’m about to have an ice cream sandwich (150) = 1940 for the day.