Clean Sweep

Not really....just getting ready for the party on Wednesday!
3 more things to bake, and I'm callin 'er quits!
I've been cleaning everything in sight!
I've even got the fridge half cleaned!?
Who looks in there?
And does it matter anyway!?
I had Stamp Club on MOnday!
This is what we made!

A holder for gift tags.

Here's the gift tags!

And here!

And here they are all together!

Cool huh!
I think they're great!

The wild life is unreal on the side roads!

Sorry it's blurry, but I'm likening driving and taking pictures to texting and driving!!!

Probably shouldn't be done!

Got a busy week coming up!

Aren't they all?

'Other" job Monday, and a meeting at 4:30 pm.

Tuesday I have a meeting in Berwyn.

Wednesday is WalMart day for my peeps, and my party!

Thursday is my eye appointment in GP!

Friday I'd better have my calendar & newsletter done for the OFH, and It's Happy Hour!

I'll be sleeping for a week again when I'm done!

I also got my H1N1 shot on Thursday night.

My arm was pretty sore starting at 9:00 pm that night.

Yesterday I was cranky and irritable. I guess that's 'normal', and today I'm fine!

BUT, I can still get the swine flu!

There's no guarantees!

GAWD! I had to really talk myself into the shot, and just figured I'd put it off long enough!

Oh well....it's done!

Better go accomplish something else!

Laundry's done, and supper's in the bread machine and slow cooker!

Ta ta for now!

Suprised I Still Have My Sanity Saturday!

After a whirlwind last few days......It's good to be home!

I took Kalen to Edmonton on Wednesday, where he spent ALL day Thursday at the recruiting center at Canada Place!
He's in! He joined the Navy! He'll be going sometime in January!
I'm very happy for him!

Then Thursday night we left the city for RMH!
Where my mom was at my aunts' place.
We did the new WalMart at Sylvan Lake, the $ store in Rocky, and Kalen had an eye exam.
We visited there for 2 sleeps, then headed home today!

Just because I'm still in marathon bake & plan mode for my party!
Plus, I have to go to my 'other' job on Monday, and it's Stamp Club! Oh, and I think I have a meeting on Monday night too!

We stopped in PR for groceries, cause I don't like to shop local unless I HAVE to!

Then Vanessa called. She's not happy (to say the least) about her brother joining the Armed Forces.
I had to try and placate her, told her if "He's happy, I'm happy!" Just like with her.

It's very draining to have a child that's not happy! Makes me tired!

We should all just wish him the best! I'm sure he'll do fine! And we're all proud of him!

Monday Monday......

I've had a busy couple of days!
Saturday, Ray & I went to Jasons' to pick some stuff up.
Did I mention that  Vanessa, and her boyfriend Jason bought our house in town 5 & 1/2 years ago?
I don't think it's a good thing when someone you know really well buys your house.
You tend to leave things there!
But after Saturday, I decided that most of the stuff left, is Vanessas'!

I've also decided that when you break up with someone, you need to take your stuff!

I started the baking marathon yesterday!
I made Butter Cake, Double Fudge Cookies, Poppyseed Twinks, Pepper Jelly Tarts, a batch of Poppycock, and a batch of Peanut Brittle.
I did get the stuff ready for fudge, but that hasn't happened yet!

I worked at my 'other' job today for 8.5 hours, then wanted to move the furniture around in the living room.
Ray needed me to go out & help with the fence pieces he's hauling to the yard & taking apart.
It's the old fence from around the house in town.
Jason's putting up a chain link one, and the dump wouldn't take the wooden fence sections because it's painted.
It's all out of the field now, and in neat stacks by the woodshed.
The boards that are in really rough shape are going in the stove. It doesn't matter outside if we burn treated or painted lumber!

I only work tomorrow at the OFH, then have the rest of the week off!

woo hoo! Only I"ll be busy, not even any time for card makin' or scrappin'!

Better go, I'm feeling like pocorn tonight........eating it, not looking like it!

Ta ta for now!

I think It's Spring!

The weather the last 2 days has been awesome.
Read...above 0, and we're talking Celcius!

I'm home from town. Ray & I went to Jason's to take stuff out of the basement! 4 BIG keeper boxes, and about 1/2 a dozen bags for the garbage! Then we brought it home, and a dresser from the storage trailor went too!
I stopped at Kalens' to do a load of laundry!
And got groceries. Yes, broke my heart to shop locally! Almost needed to take out a loan!

Didn't go to my other job today.
I got up in the middle of the night to make some of my peeps at the OFH breakfast.
Not really, but I always tell them that. Our Breakfast Club comes to a halt in the summer, cause I can't tell them that I get up in the middle of the night to cook them breakfast, Because it's light almost all night!
Then I got off early, and went to my 'other' job yesterday!

D. looks waaay better than he did Monday!
I said, "Wow, you look a lot better!"
D., "I know, now I just look tough instead of beat up!"
He pressed charges. I think assault, but I'm not sure.
One of my friends that works at a helicopter place (when I dropped her Avon off yesterday) said one of her guys said, "The only way you'll get a punch in , would be to sucker punch D.!"


I wanted to share this pic with you!

I KNOW Halloween is over, and I AM putting my stuff away!

Just the candy bowls & buckets etc, are still out!

I made this a couple years ago. Well I didn't really make it.....I painted it!

My friend Peggy is proud of me, and my Aunt Alyce would be proud too, cause as you can see in the mirror I even painted the back!

Alrighty then....the annual Gail Luck Princess House party is set.

I was gonna skip this year, maybe have it in the Spring, cause I'm just soooo darn busy!

But people have even been calling the Princess House rep., and asking when my party is!

She told another friend of mine that I usually have a party in the fall.

So I booked a party from that friend!

It's an event on Facebook.         

I think that says it all! And one of my friends said," You couldn't have it on a more perfect night!"
I said, "I know, I didn't want anybody whining cause they couldn't eat!"

Now I'm going to go and whip up some awesome appetizers etc. for the partay!

Ta ta for now!

Another hmmmmmm!

I wanted to have a relaxing evening at home!
I went over to Jason's to do some more laundry. He's out of town, and I'm the ex mother in law.
Well, we didn't break up with him (Ray & I)!
I only did that cause all the AVON wasn't in.
I brought home 3 bags of stuffed animals, the second load is in the washer now.
There IS one more!

I washed my car...cause you know from the ditch photos yesterday that it was MUDDY!
Now it's CLEAN, and I'm sure in the morning all my doors will be frozen shut!

So I DID get the campaign 25 books with the 1 box of AVON that I did get.
I'm going hmmmm over one item in there.
It's the set of 4 Angels on page 12.
I got the teens at the Library those Angels about 1 month ago for a Fundraiser!
Why would they put a fundraising item in the book?
It's the same price, but the kids make $4.50 off each one, getting it for their fundraiser!?
The fundraising item should be something not available anywhere else, so that if people want it, they have to get it from the group doing the fundraising!?!!! GAWD!
When I grow up, I want the fundraising, supervising, what ever it is, job at AVON!!!
So I had to fire up my computer, (and haven't been off of it since) to make more stickers to put on the pages, with the Library phone number!!!
Had to do that for the last Campaign too!

I'm having my annual Princess House Crystal Party.
I decided to fit it in!
People have been asking!
It's on a Weight Watcher night so that everyone can come and pig out!
I'll start baking this weekend! No one will know that I dug it out of the freezer!
November's a busy month for me!
When I was telling the manager at work what I was taking off......
I said, "I KNOW! I'm here forever, and all of a sudden I need the whole month off!"
It won't get any better next month either.....well I DO end up with a few more days off in December....maybe not, with Christmas so close to the weekend!

Ta ta for now!

Scenic Route

You'll never guess what I did on the way to work this morning!

Yup, there I am...in the ditch!

Caught a rut, and it just tossed me over there!

Didn't see it coming!

Was only about 1/2 mile from the highway!

Wasn't even going fast.

Got on my phone (remember the day when you actually had to walk to the nearest farmhouse!?) and called Ray...actually I had to leave a message! "Hey I'm in the ditch by so & so's."

So I drank my coffee, took pictures and talked to Kalen on the phone!

Ray said, 'It's a good thing you weren't going fast or the snow might have tipped you over when you caught in the ditch."

Ray said, "Come on, I'll take you to work, I don't know where to hook onto your car, everything is plastic."

Note for next time...apparently you gotta hook onto the frame!

Hardly looks like I'm off the road hey!?

Well the front end was over, and that's where all the weight is!

Love how it flung me around! I'm facing the wrong way.

And I know my car needs washed!

It was muddy last week! Maybe I'll wash it tomorrow, poor thing!

That wasn't all that happened!
I WAS having an all right day!
Except for being in the ditch, but no one was hurt!

I went to get pop at the one and only grocery store in town, to fill the vending machine at work.
It belongs to the residents, and it's my job (?) to fill it....hey, I don't mind most days!
It was the cheapest, and least amount of work involved to raise money for the Residents Association.
So Coke products are advertised 2 for $8.00.
I get to the aisle, and by the COKE it says "Limit of 2 @ 2 for $8.00."
I look all down the shelf at the other Coke products, and that's the only place it says that. The rest of the signs are just 2 for $8.00.
So I get 2 cases of Coke, 5 Canada Dry, a Diet Root Beer, regular Root Beer and a Nestea or something.
My cart's full, I'm heading for the till.
I'm heading for till 2 where there's a smiling young gentleman, and out of nowhere swoops another teller in on her broom, yelling at me that there's a LIMIT of 2 on the 2 for $8.00. Like, of ALL the Coke products, you need to pick 2 kinds and that's ALL you're getting at that price!
Well, I got a little CRANKY then, because remember this is the NEW store, AND THEE ONLY grocery store in town, and they weren't gonna limit the stuff yadda yaddda yadda! I read the write up they had when it opened!
So I might have said a cuss word or two. I know I said, "Well then I'll take 2, I don't want the rest."
Cause really; I'm thinking, who wants to go put 8 cases of pop away!?
By this time, there are words exchanged.....I just decided I was bigger than the teller yelling at me, and all of a sudden she says, "How many do you have."
I said, "What?"
She said , "How many pop all together?"
I said, "10."
And she let me have them! AT THE SALE PRICE! ALL 10 OF THEM!
I told the residents I had to fight for their pop for the machine today!

Then it got better! We finished reaqding the story about Wop May today! It was pretty good!

Then this is what I got in the mail!

My HAPPY HALLOWEEN Banner! I know, it's after Halloween, and I'm missing an H, a P, and an N, but I was happy anyway! It's really amazing! A lot of work and thought into every letter! Don't forget we had to make 14 of our letters! See, there's my 'O's'!

OK, so it's not a great picture, but I'll be putting it away until next year, and working on the other letters!

I also got this in the mail!

A really cute Thank You card in Halloweeny colors, for the Halloween deprived girl I made the lantern for!

I also gave her a spider bucket full of candy! Might have told you that, consider where I work most of the time; I think it's catchy!

She was thrilled!

Gonna ask her if she made the card herself, cause her mom's the Stampin' Up lady!

I also went to Jason's after work to check on his place. He's working. Did the dishes (again) and I'm not done, and did 2 loads of laundry.

I KNOW....I'm a sucker for punishment! I'll stop again in the morning, and put another load in the washer, and the other stuff in the dryer! By the time he gets home, I should have his laundry done!

That's all I did for fun today, maybe tomorrow won't be so hectic!

What am I saying!? I'll have to sort AVON!

Ta ta for now!

Hmmmmm

The human race will always make me go hmmmmm.
That's a big fat hmmmmm right there.
What are we racing for?
Is there a prize at the end?

Kalen's friend Kendra, got a job! So that's one less worry for her.
Remember earlier I had said that she didn't have on, and I told her it would work out, It did, and it was a job she wanted! I'm very happy for her!
Kalen also got his appointments set up for E-town!
Guess we get to go play with Sheila, Sandra & Jamie!

The weekends go so fast for me.
I'm trying to cut my other job down to one day a week....either Saturday or Monday, because I have a lot I want to do, and I get tired. Then I either get nothing done, or it's a marathon everything!
I was there for 5 or 6 hours Saturday, and 5 today!
I really need to get it to one 8 hour shift! I don't even mind going on Holidays in the middle of the week, which is what I'll do on November 11th if I don't go anywhere!
I did say I'd be back Saturday, only because all the time for payroll wasn't in.

I did make one card today....I need to make 3 or 4 more for my aunt.
I have a few pictures in my head, just need to find the stuff to make them a reality.....hence, the craft room, getting revamped!

When I got to my other job this morning, one of the guys had a black eye....not just the eye, the whole side of his face.
I said,"Were you talking when you should've been listening?"
He said, "Actually Gail, not this time."
He'd gone to the pub Saturday night (Halloween).
He was sitting on a bar stool, talking to a girl, and out of nowhere this girl's brother sucker punched him.
He said he didn't see him coming, doesn't know if it was because he was talking to his sister; he was a rodeo clown, maybe he didn't like the costume; there's a lot of maybes there!
The victim said he wasn't drunk, I asked about the other guy, and he said, "Probably."

I'll never understand how people act, or what makes them act the way they do.
What was to be gained?
Just sent the guy to the hospital an hour away for a cat scan. He has a broken cheek bone and a concussion.
And he's damn mad.
Doesn't know what to do about it....what would you do about something like that?
Revenge really isn't sweet, and will just get you into trouble.

I got a headache just looking at him, cause man it looked like it hurt.
He told me he's started some fights where he deserved to be beat up, "but not this time."
Should've told him I had some really GOOD painkiller type tranquilizers.
THAT'S another story, and we're not going there now!

On Friday, the girls at work were discussing who was moving in.
As you know, I work at a Seniors lodge, and there's always a rush to get in at first snowfall!
They were talking about 1 gentleman in particular.
One of the girls said, "He won't be moving in."
Other girl," Why not?'
"Because he's getting married on November 11."
I'm like, "WHAT?!"
Seems he's marrying one of the girls that work there.
I said, "OMG, when did they even date? She works nights all the time?!"
Anyhoo, it's none of my business, but wow!
I told the girls they were doing it wrong, and one of them told me, "I like my wrong!"


Ta ta for now.

Fall Back!

I'm probably one of the few in the country....over 50, that wasn't affected by the extra hour sleep!
Can't do it, nada, not that I don't want to.....I just wake up early! If I can't go right back to sleep, I might as well get up! 5:55 am this morning.

I also started doing laundry when Ray got up (because he's fine with the extra hour!), and had no hot water.
He's mad. Why couldn't the thermo coupler on the hot water tank go yesterday? How come these things happen on Sunday. He says it accusingly, like it's my fault or something!
Told him it was Murphy's Law. He doesn't know what that is, so dropped it!
But this is our second one in 5 years!
He should be thankful though, casuse last year at this time we were replacing the water pump, and yes, it was a Sunday!

I've had a very productive day!
Made labels for Sheila. No, she didn't move, just a new address!
Made labels for the AVON catalogues, and printed off the invoices for AVON. It'll be in on Wednesday!
Helped Ray put a post in the back 40 for one of the gates to lean against, so it doesn't twist.
Just one thought always comes to mind when I do this: How come I'm the one that has to hold the post while he positions the bucket on the tractor over my head to push it in?
Remind me not to piss him off when he wants my help! hmmmmmm
Made a sour cream rhubarb pie, some shortbread cookies, cooked some bacon for B & T sandwiches, italian seseme bread (bread machine), roast, potatoes, fried cabbage.
Did 2 loads of laundry, after I got hot water!

Fed the cats, and took a picture of the wood shed, with more wood than it's ever seen in it's life!

And there's my snowblower, still out in the elements!
I'm not sure why the cement mixer is still in the way there either!
Ray said he still has about 5 trees down that he didn't get, but I guess we can get them in the Spring!


Now the dishes ( the pots) are soaking, and I'm too full for pie!
Guess I'll have it later.

Ta ta for now!