This is what I feel like today on this Monday. Some days I am jealous of my cats. They can sleep all day and sleep all night and no one is worse for the wear. They look so comfortable just curled up on the couch that it makes me just want to do the same. However, on this Monday I have too much to do, but it is 2:30 in the afternoon and I have not accomplished much. I was going to mow the lawn this morning but everything is still pretty wet. I picked up a bunch of sticks in the back yard though. It is currently 58 degrees outside and I turned the heat on in here and set the temp to 68. It was just too cold! That is another reason I just wanted to curl up on the couch with my book and a blanket today. Call me crazy for turning the heat on in September but I would rather be comfortable and pay the money for the heat. I'll pinch my pennies in other areas of my life. Like my meal planning! Brett helped me plan some meals for this week, and as it turns out I only have to buy 5 things at the store for the next 7 suppers we are going to eat. The rest of the things we already have here. Now, if I could make my own spaghetti noodles then I would only have to buy 4 things :) I work Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights this week. Tuesday is an extra 8 hour shift, we will see if they need me.
Well, back to my boring Monday and laundry here. See this is why I don't post very often because this is usually all my days consist of. Nothing exciting going on here! Except for my new blog design! I got tired of the red and wanted something a little lighter and fresher. Let me know what you think!
So last night ISU football played SDSU at home. Brett and I got all decked out in our ISU gear (actually just put on our sweatshirts because it was chilly) packed a blanket and an extra coat and walked a few blocks to the field. How nice it is that we live so close to be able to just walk. We talked about driving just because there was a chance it would rain - but when we got to the field we saw that it was $10 to park! Yikes. We walked over to the the big home stand side and waited in line for a minute to buy tickets - then we find out that even if Brett is a student there are no discounted tickets on that side. We decided to just walk back over to the other side, the general admission side, where a ticket for Brett as a student would be $5 instead of $19 on the other side! Alas, even though I might be able to pass as a student, we decided to be honest and say I wasn't. Especially since I didn't have a student ID to prove that I was anyway.
Not really sure what I was expecting, but we actually had a really good view of the field and felt really close. Later I realized there was no track around the field so that put us just that much closer. I could actually see the ball and figure out what was going on! After half time it started to rain a little more. We stuck it out and put the blanket over our heads and my rain coat on our laps. We managed to stay half way dry during that time and the rain did not last that long. The end score was 20-13, ISU won! I even took a long the camera so I could grab a few pictures to put on my blog :) Here we are after getting a little wet from the rain and then a picture of the marching band during half time. Brought back memories from high school marching band...hah.
Just relaxing this afternoon, paying bills, cleaning a little, hanging out, doing homework, watching a little football on TV.
So last night while I was at work I had an orientee with me and it was her last night on orientation. She took all 6 patients by herself which did not leave a whole lot for me to do. She is a great new nurse and besides checking her charting and so forth - she handled everything on her own! Therefore I had hours to think about life and things (all while my patients were still alive and breathing, don't worry!). I've told Brett this lately several times - I am just not happy with where I am in life right now. And it is not that I don't like living where we live or living in our house, or my job or anything like that. I think it is more feeling so unorganized and just like life does whatever it wants around me and I am not doing anything about it. Does that make sense? For instance one thing that has really bothered me lately is my lack of caring about food around here. Part of that is because I've had stomach issues for the last few months and have to be careful about what I eat or I feel sick (but that is a WHOLE 'NOTHER story people). So I wouldn't care if there was nothing to eat for supper. We had cereal, or just mac and cheese or a Jimmy Johns sandwich (my new favorite thing I think!) or Brett and I would have totally different things to eat, or I would eat before he got home from school and then he would find something else at home here. I was thinking while at work last night how my mom ALWAYS had a home cooked meal on the table - even if it was leftovers, the leftovers were home cooked. Even if she was at work that evening, she made sure we had food to eat. We always sat and ate supper together as a family. Meal time was together time. I think that is part of the reason it has bugged me so much lately. I feel like Brett and I have no together time and I partly blame that on not sitting down together and sharing a meal together. I associate meal time with together time.
So last night at work I looked up a bunch of recipes for things that sounded good and looked fairly simple to make. I'll be honest - some of the recipes I saw scared me because they had so many ingredients and steps. I tend to stay away from those and stick to the real simple ones. Maybe once I get better at this whole food/cooking thing I can venture out more. I also made a list of meals we already typically have at home (taco salad, soup, chicken pasta, etc. etc.) I came up with many different options.
My goal for this weekend: figure out what meals I am going to make next week, and buy the groceries for those meals - and then stick to the plan. Even if that means getting up at 4:00 instead of 5:00 to cook before I have to go to work, I think I can do that.
Well this is a long enough post about this topic! I'll let ya know how this ends up working for me. For some people this would seem like a no brain-er but for me it truly will be a challenge I think. I want to make our house feel more like a home and I think working with our meal times is a good starting point for me.
Happy Fall everyone!!
Lately I have REALLY been struggling with keeping the house clean. And I don't mean just picking stuff up so it looks clean, I mean I've been ignoring the cobwebs growing in the corners and under furniture, the rust stuff on the shower curtain, the cat hair in the bedroom carpet, the cricket parts chewed up by Parker on the laundry room floor, the clean and dirty laundry that NEVER ends.....you get the idea right? I decided to just focus on one room at a time. Last weekend was the living room/dining room. I dusted everything, moved furniture, washed the inside of windows, cleaned floors, and pitched things. Today, my focus was on the bedroom. I have been wanting new dressers for quite some time. Brett made the other furniture for our bedroom (headboard, and nightstands) but never had time to make the matching dressers. Today we went to this furniture store called Rooms Direct, associated with Ashley Furniture I think, but almost more like a warehouse type place. I found 2 matching dressers that were pretty much exactly what I was looking for, the right color, deep drawers, and 2 that matched! Eventually we will probably sand them, and stain them to even better match the rest of the furniture in the bedroom. Well the price was a little more than I wanted to spend - so while we were standing there discussing options, etc, the owner comes up to us and asks us if we were still debating. I said the price was more than I wanted to pay for both of them together, so he knocks $100 off. Well then I was sold. We took them home on the pickup right then. :) I then spent the rest of the evening cleaning the bedroom and sorting clothes and putting them away in the new dressers. Finally our bedroom felt clean and organized and more like a bedroom than a pig pen. Of course, I took pictures.
You can also see the finished product of my quilt. I have started a new one as well, but don't have pictures of that. I had several strips all pinned together ready to sew and then a few days later Brett tells me that Parker has found a new toy....my pins. He plays with them until they come out of the fabric. UGH. I'll take pictures of this one as soon as I am a little further in the process.
There hasn't been much to blog about lately. Our lives have consisted of me working overtime, and Brett spending most of his time at school. Seriously. I think we both need a vacation to a warm sunny place. Might be awhile before that happens though.
We also have a guest room - so come visit! I promise I will clean that room before you come :) Tomorrow I might tackle the fridge. It is in desperate need of some TLC. Or the weeds growing in the front sidewalk - that looks pretty pathetic at the moment too. As for the rest of the night, I'm going to curl up with my Kindle and read :) Adios!
