val922's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jinx Me Not Ah! Is the weekend really almost over? I�m happy and sad about that. For a couple of reason but those are later. Let us begin with� Thursday (I know not technically part of the weekend but that�s where the fun begins) � My daughter reminds me at bedtime that not only is she having a sleep over the next day but our friend Mark is visiting with his 2 kids for the weekend and us with little more than PB&J in the cupboards. So arrangements had to be made on the fly for me to have the truck on � Friday so I can go grocery shopping. Since we only have the one vehicle and I shop like the world is coming to an end when I go. I can not be one of those people who shops via bus. How anyone does that really is beyond me. � So I drop D at work. Mind you this latter is of particular importance because as of September I should have been saving for the x-mas fund but we spent � of it on weather proofing the house �cause the landlord is a cheap bastard and the other � getting a $238 TV we salvaged fixed for half the price. So I had to use Octobers� x-mas money to pay bills and I can see the trend building (I saw it building because I redid the budget to see what was going to happen) so I decide for the second day last week to half-ass look for a job (Tuesday I put out 3 e-mail r�sum�s) another 3 e-mail r�sum�s on Friday. I of course was shall we say quite a bit more than mildly depressed. Christmas is my favorite holiday and no not for the commercialism but because it is the one time of year I can give to my family freely. I love watching their faces light up, that�s my gift. I also love decorating the tree. Anyhow an hour after that I got a surprise which I can not talk about for the next 2 months on the grounds that it may jinx me. I had to wait for C and her friend to get home from school to go pick up D which really sucks because D is finished work at 4pm C walks thru the door from school at 3:45pm and we are stuck in rush hour traffic coming and going. We get home have dinner and then Mark drops off 2 more kids ages 3 and 5 to watch while he and D drive an hour coming and going to Barrie to drop off his niece at her Dad�s. By the time they get back we visit for an hour and then it�s off to bed for the yawning lot of us. That will bring us to the slogged uncaffeinated D who was awakened by C�s friend�s father at 10:30. I really don�t understand parents who are up at the crack of dawn on a freakin� Saturday. Haven�t these people heard of sleeping in? Especially since I asked her mom if she needed her home at any particular time and she said, no. Oh well that was one less mouth to feed. I made pancakes for 3 kids and 3 adults which put me in the kitchen into the afternoon. Cook then clean. We tried to take the youngins to the park but we got a mix of hail and rain so that forced us indoors again. Sunday, hell is that today I guess for another couple of hours it is. Right so it was clean the house so I don�t have to worry about it this week because I may be otherwise occupied. I can�t say, really. I won�t find out until tomorrow anyway. Ah, look never could keep a secret so now I have to post before I ruin my future. 10:22 p.m. - Sunday, Oct. 15, 2006 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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