I am a nice Mom, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise! HEH! I spent 2 hours this morning cleaning out the interior of Ben’s newly painted truck! I scrubbed it top to bottom, and we also put on new seat covers. Not too bad for a 1987 Dodge RAM! *g*

A challenge has been issued. Go and say “Hi!”

Well hubby and Ben just drove in to pick up Ben’s truck from the paint job. He’s so excited to see it! I am too! I’m going to help him clean up the interior when he has a day off. That won’t be any time soon though, as he’s in a soccer tournament this weekend.

Sarah works her first night shift tonight, so that will be interesting. Our house is like grand central station! People coming and going at all hours of the day and night (except for me of course). Last night Sarah got home from work at 11:30, hubby got up at 6:00 am to go golfing, Ben went to work for 2:30 pm, he gets home at 11:00, Sarah leaves at 10:30.

I just sit here with my head spinning and throw food through the bars from time to time.

Well I’ve changed the beds, eaten breakfast, and worked out for an hour, now I’m trying to decide what I should do with myself. Rather undecided at this point.

I should continue/finish my housecleaning frenzy, but I’m not sufficiently motivated to do so this week it seems. Things are all screwy with hubby home for 2 weeks. He went on a cleaning frenzy yesterday too, and did the garage, so that was a good thing.

Well time for a shower, and maybe then I’ll have some energy to accomplish something!

Today was pretty uneventful, but sometimes that’s a good thing. I got up early and watered all my flowers (it’s very hot here), ate breakfast, and then got my workout out of the way. Afterwards I threw in the last of the laundry, showered and then went for groceries. I don’t seem to have accomplished much this afternoon, I’m not quite sure where the time went!

Tonight is reality show night hell, so I’ll be in my element glued to the tube like a boob!

Sorry for not posting much, but hubby is at home on vacation, so I haven’t been spending quite as much time on the computer lately. I also, haven’t been doing a darn thing! Having all these people home with me really cramps my style!

I’ve got the main bathroom, linen closet, laundry room and kitchen left to do in my housework frenzy, but I’ve kind of lost that energy of late, as it’s really hot here right now. I haven’t been sleeping well because of the heat either, which makes me LAZY.

I finally finished reading Hearts In Atlantis,and the first Harry Potter, and I’m ready to start the second Harry Potter book today. I’ve been spending time lying out in the sun. Working on my tan, and getting some reading done. I have so many books to read, it’s not even funny! I keep buying good books, but not making time to read them.

Sarah’s off this weekend to the lake with a bunch of her friends. They certainly got great weather for it. I’m sure she’ll come home tanned and exhausted! Ben golfed all day yesterday in a stag golf tourny for one of his best friends’ older brothers. He’s getting married in a week or two. Hubby spent the weekend doing the final sanding and prep on Ben’s truck which is going in for a paint job tomorrow. We’ve also been watching lots of movies!

Haven’t decided yet what I’m going to do today, as Ben & hubby are going to finish the truck. I may just spend the day in the sun with my book. I’m still trying to decide if I’m going to paint my kitchen or not. I change my mind daily on that issue.

A guy goes on vacation to the Holy Land with his wife and mother-in-law. The mother-in-law dies. They go to an undertaker who explains that they can ship the body home but that it’ll cost over $5000, whereas they can bury her in the Holy Land for only $150. The guy says, “We’ll ship her home.” The undertaker asks, “Are you sure? That’s an awfully big expense and we can do a very nice burial here.” The guy says, “Look, 2000 years ago they buried a guy here and three days later He rose from the dead. I just can’t take that chance.”

Yesterday morning by 6:00 am, my house was empty. Ben, grandpa and hubby went up to Athabasca to go golfing with my brother-in-law and his 2 boys. Sarah went to work. I was just surfing aimlessly when my Mom called and invited me down for dinner with her and my brother, so I decided I should accept since I don’t even remember the last time I got down there for a visit.

I took the balconey sliding door all apart and washed it so one could actually see through it again (of course it rained last night), put the curtains back up, worked out for an hour, chatted with Candy, showered and went down to Mom’s.

It was so hot and muggy yesterday that I was quite happy to be in my A/C car with the music blaring for 45 minutes! Supper was good, Mom and Steve still argue about pretty much everything, cause of course you know my Mom knows nearly ALL. If I disagree, I state my facts/opinions once, and that’s it. Then I go GOOGLE it, and show her she’s full of SHIT!!! LMAO

1) DVD or VHS? DVD
2) Best Literary/Movie Villan: Voldemort (Harry Potter) or Sauron (LoTR)? Voldemort
3) Meat: rare or well-done? medium well (beef) everything else well done!
4) High Speed Internet-Cable or DSL? cable internet
5) Women: 1-piece bathing suit or Bikini? I wear a bikini for suntanning purposes only in the complete privacy of my back yard, and I keep my middle aged saggy buns appropriately covered when out in public!!!
6) To be fair–Men: Boxers or briefs?
7) Beer or Liquor/Wine? I don’t drink
Coke or Mountain Dew? diet PEPSI
9) In honor of my 10/18/03 nuptials: Morning or Afternoon/Night Wedding? we had an afternoon wedding, and evening reception/dance
10) Carpet or Hardwood Floors we have carpet, but I love hardwood
11) American cars or foreign? American is “foreign” LOL
12) Cutest TV Twin: Mary-Kate or Ashley Olsen? HUH????
13) Coffee: Caffeinated or Decaf? high test!!
14) Thought-Provoking Question of the Week: Computers: Do they make life better or worse? Why? better in many ways, immediate communication, shopping, banking, etc. but they have a real way of interfering with real life and real people if you let them! You end up sitting on your ass when you should be out enjoying life!

Now I know the weather has gotten to me! Today it is around 90 degrees here. Sweltering for us and our non-A/C houses.

Do I take a book (now reading the first Harry Potter……yeah…. I know I’m the last surviving person in North America not to have read it….SHADDUP!), go sit in the shade with some iced tea, and relax? NOT a chance!

Instead, I choose today to do the cleaning schmozola in the computer room in the loft, which is I may add, the hotest room in the house! Complete with sky light to provide you with just enough UV rays to make you feel like your out baling hay. So I’m moving furniture around like an idiot, shampooing carpets and numerous other equally unpleasant tasks! I’m telling you I’ve lost my mind! I also pulled something in my back, and strained both knees! Talk about GIMP!

My morning also started out with me chasing the cat around the block! GEEZE…. glad I wasn’t watching that ordeal! I was talking on the phone outside, while watering plants and stuff at about 8:00 am. I’m yabbering away, and the cat wanted in, so I let him off his leash and kept on blabbing (knew email was better!) About 10 minutes later, still on the phone, and I said, I don’t think I let Smudge back in the house!

I checked out all his usual snoozing places in the house (he’s very predictable), and no cat! I went out onto the second floor balcony for a bird’s eye view of the neighborhood…….no cat. So, I walked around the block, looking and calling. No cat. I got home, went back up on balcony, looking again. *sniff* no cat! I went to the back fence and stood up on it enough so that I could see over the fence into the neighbors’ yards. I noticed a great ruckus amongst the bird population, and sure enough the birds were swooping, and taunting the cat from a safe distance. I called the cat, and he came as far as the yard directly behind ours. Grrrr… wouldn’t come any closer…..damn cat!

I make a mad dash around the block and go into their backyard, and finally find the friggin’ cat! In the meantime, the garbage guy is coming, the cat’s getting scared, and I know if I attempt to carry him all the way home, I’m going to be wearing some serious claws! So, I shoved him back through the fence into our yard, and ran like a bat out of hell all the way home! Only to get in the back yard…….no cat! Fuck! So, I run into the house, grab two cans of cat food, and go out into the yard and start clinking the 2 cans together, calling the cat. Finally he comes sauntering out from under the bushes where he was watching me make an ass of myself. I promptly tied him up safe and sound again. Little Bastard!