What's New Revue for Monday!!!!
Let me review my weekend with you.
Ballgame Friday night. Worked Saturday morning. Dinner at Cafe Madrid Saturday night. Sunday School. Lunch at Ghengis Grill Sunday. Home for a nap. Watched Big Brother and the Rangers game before coming to work.
It has been a frustrating week for Rangers fans. Playing great ball. The only team in the major leagues playing better happens to be the Angels (the team ahead of them in the standings). But we got to LA Friday for a 3 game series. (Sorry to bore some of you - or most of you).
My son is finishing up his garage in anticipation of his MIL coming home from the hospital this week for hospice care. He also got a little spike in his blood pressure this weekend courtesy of his employer. He was expecting some extra money this week in his pay check. He asked the boss about it and was told "I have bad news for you". My son was ticked. Then the boss says "you will be paying more taxes this week than normal".
Oh well, I rambled on long enough. What's new with you???
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!!
i cannot believe that the weekend is over...
we showed the house- nice gal-younger than my kids--it dawned on me late last nite that i think i know her parents! she brought a gf which is great-safer for her and good to have two pair of ears and eyes! she seemed to like the house but i really don't know--so-we wait to see-if she calls and wants to bring her parents then i know she is interested- i don't think it's for her but i could be very wrong...neighbor guy was very evident during the showing and stared at her- she commented about nosey neighbor- i only said "yup"--and tried to dirsmiss it--
michael and i went for a bike ride yesterday after she left- was beautiful on the trail -cool and breezy and felt good but my legs hurt this morning! he stopped along the way and ate berries- i continued to ride -i knew he couldn't-and turned around to gather him back up--when we rode by the ucka neighbor he screamed soemthing at us- neither of us caught what it was --we were on our own sidewalk on our side of the street so--
have to call the hospital to register michael for his blood draw this week and IVP next monday...
tonite i have to research car insurance- our company does not work in hawaii...
hugs and prayers...............a special good wish for pat r going back to work today- don't overdo it!!!!
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.
- E. B. White
Regarding your neighbor when you are showing the house, you could say the area takes note when someone strange is in the area. Turns a negative into a positive.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!!
Yesterday, we took off for the river, which is really a huge shallow river with deep parts but really nice to play in. I kept the two babies in their floaty things and used them for my exercise equipment. LOL. Came home and got all the kids showered, fed, and in bed. So, I took a hot shower and finished grading my stupid papers and suddenly I saw it. I freaking have posion ivy, again. It's on my arms, my legs, my back, my neck, and even...well, you got it. So, I took my itch pill, which did nothing, and I'm going to the doctor today. Now I'm covered with benadryl cream, poison ivy cream, and predinsone cream and let me just say, none of it works. I checked my babies and none of them have it. My son has a couple of places but he had those allergy shots which make him less allergic. I have bathed them in vinegar trying to neutralize the acid, nothing. Damn.
But, today I am holding my last class of summer school. Tomorrow and the next day, I'll do conferences and that it is it. Can we all sigh. Yes, it has been rough.
The son and dil and their kids are heading out at noon and they are taking my other three grands up to their house. While I love them all dearly, I am getting a little closterphobic and stressed.
I know that I've lost my two pounds and maybe more. I don't think that I've eaten a full anything in days and have been so busy trying to keep the house up and the kids fed that I'm exhausted. My dil is a big help but she has been doing yard work with the guys so it has been me doing domestic chores. I will admit that it is nice having two other adults who can do some of the lifting of the baby.
Well, I am itching like someone just dosed me in itch powder and as soon as my doctor opens, I'm calling him for an order for the medrol dose pack and a shot of it too. I guess I will break down and get the freaking allergy shots.
Oh, and did I tell you that I don't really have a bathing suit because I've undergrew the one I bought at the beginning of the summer, so I was looking around and found one of my daughter's old suits and I mean old like when she was twelve. I don't know why I still have it but I put it on and it fit. It's a full piece and has New Kids On The Block on the side of it, but hey, I was covered. LOL
You all have a great day and don't over eat and do exercise and don't take no **** from any body. I mean it.
Our 10 year old Lindsay pitches softball. She's a teeny tiny girl but packs a wallop. They clocked her pitch at 43 mph. I will admit, the number doesn't mean squat to me, but apparently, that's fast.Time to get ready for work. On Mondays we go to a clay class. The agency pays me to "work" and they pay for the clay class because that's where my client wants to go. Not a bad job at all.
Kisses
Annette
Annette 
What a job! I tell everyone I get paid to read. They think that's great, too. When I was a sports writer, everyone thought I had the best job, I got to go to all the games for free. Yeah, but ... then when they were going out to the restaurants and bars and having a beer and pizza, I had to go interview people, go to the office, take 10 more phone calls and try to write my story on deadline, edit a bunch of other stories on deadline, paste up pages and didn't get home until after midnight. Well, I loved my job ... really ...until I got burned out of it. Now I love my job because I leave it at the office.
At the beginning of the season, the other teams laughed when Lindsay stood on the mound. She is smaller than some of the 8 & 9 year olds. Her reputation spread quickly though. Scouts from middle and high schools have already put in a bid for her to play on their teams.
Even the best jobs can cause burn out eventually. Since I am only a part timer now, that shouldn't happen in the near future.
Beer and pizza sounds pretty darned good.
Midnight, not so good. Annette A few years ago I tried to get hired at the Ballpark to work the manual scoreboard. There was a waiting list for that job.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!!
I got into this because I wanted to cover the White Sox for the Sun Times ... but now, I would never want to cover Major League Baseball, as much as I love it, because I would grow to hate it. I love baseball ... but I grew to hate covering sports. It became a job. I had to take it home with me. I never had any free time. I was accosted in grocery stores by angry parents with stories about their 5-year-old soccer players, not getting enough ink, and how this was going to hurt them. Now, no one knows who I am ... I'm essential, but my name doesn't appear anywhere. My picture is not in the paper. And at the end of the day, I go home and my work stays in the office. And I really love sports now again.
It's not what you gather, but what you scatter
that tells what kind of life you have lived.
