Being that gas, as of last night, was 4.15 per gallon, I started walking the kids to school this week. Today I'm meeting my Mom at the park so she can get herself a walk in. If she chooses the short loop, that with my school drop off / pick up walks I'll get a total of 4miles in. If she takes the long loop I'll total 5 miles. WOW! :o)
This should help my physical fitness, and maybe even my appearance a bit. :o)
So due to conflicts I found myself all alone last night and today. What to do?? Then I woke up unusually early for me, with no reason to be up, I like to fall back to sleep, but not this morning. I was awake. So after getting some other stuff done. I went to Disneyland with a good friend of mine. We weren't sure how it was gonna go as it took us 15mins. just to get into the parking structure.. another 15 to get through the security check.. but in the end, it was PERFECT! The longest wait we had was about 30mins. and that was for Splash mountain.. where we both got TOTALLY soaked.. like OMG, my cell phone was in that pocket.. please still work, wet. I wrang out my socks, and jacket after the ride. It was cool after getting wet, but it was still fun. We got to ride a lot of rides which was a shock, we saw the new Indiana Jones show (great for kids). And just enjoyed hanging out together. I didn't go home after that, I had bell choir rehearsal, one of the conflicts. We picked up a new song. We'll ring while the vocal choir sings. Thankfully my music-mate is going to copy our music so that it doesn't show the vocal parts, otherwise, I'm doomed. My eyes go to the top line, where I sing. Not good when your bells are bass cleff.
Now I'm off.. I'm totally tired after a day of fun, and am truly ready for a good nights' sleep. :o)
So living in So cal, it's not often that we have the ems system come on the radio with more than a test.. let alone a TORNADO warning. WTHeck! Yup, not near me, but still.. only an hour maybe 90mins. drive away. WOW! My house, got rain.. a bit of thunder, which totally panicked my younger 3 children.. I tried to help by telling them the angels were bowling with Jesus, thunder only happens when they get a strike. It seemed to help. Now it's just WINDY!!!! no not a nice breeze, thankyouverymuch.. I said WINDY!!!! Like I removed the patio tables' umbrella from it's base and laid it next to the house on the ground windy... all our patio chairs are stacked and against the house.
And of course it's supposed to do this all weekend, and we're supposed to go to a lovely Scottish games and festival tomorrow. I promise not to complain if it's just wind.. but if it rains, I'm whining. hehe.
My sunburn from last weekend is peeling, so I'm itching... I am lotioning 2-3times a day. Today is actually the first day I'm wearing sleeves. I've been wearing strapless tops for the last 6 days. It's not comfortable, but I'm not going to die from the irritation today, so that is definately an improvement.
Ok.. off to finish some work before a lunch date.
Saturday and Sunday were the Doheny Blues Festival days for this year. The kids and I went both days... omgoodness.. I do love the blues. Now, unless you listen to blues, you aren't likely to know any of the regular performers... but I'll tell you anyways.. Watermelon Slim, and Pinetop Perkins (don't you love these names).. were AMAZING. Watermelon Slim plays guitar and harmonica.. slide guitar, on his lap. Just WOW! Pinetop Perkins is 90-something, pianist..damn if I could play 1/64th as well as he does I'd be amazing. hehe. Johnny Lang was Saturday nights headliner. Bonnie Raitt was Sunday night. The one downer was that it was HOT, like 90-something hot. I'm sunburned on my shoulders, upper back, and chest, I stupidly wore strapless tops both days.. now I get to wear them for the week while my burn heals. @@ Thankfully the littles aren't burned, and Beth just lightly burned a shoulder.. and yes, we did use sunblock.. it just wasn't enough in that sun.
Now to catch up on all the chores I didn't do over the weekend. sigh~ anyone wanna come do laundry with me?? The mound is only 2 feet tall.
I got up this morning, put on my "work jeans" as I intended to mow the yard, and finish clearing the last section of the parking strip to plant the flowering ice plant. I am dressed to shoes to take the kids to school. Beth desperately needed an item from Wal-mart so we dropped the others and backtracked to the store. got her item, and headed to the car.
When I first sat down (taking the kids to school) I thought I'd sat on a piece of paper. But didn't bother to check. After walking through Wal-mart when I returned to the car I had the same feeling.. so I went to remove the paper/item... yup, you guessed it. The left side of my jeans is torn.. BIG hole, like the size of my hand. So I'm officially total white trash as I've now shopped Wal-mart with my cheek showing.
Sad part is, I care more about the fact that my FAVORITE work jeans are basically dead. :o(
I don't have any grand things to talk about... I've done dishes, helped with homework, laundry, all the usual stuff.. but nothing fun, cool, or noteable.
The only semi-noteworthy news is that Beth has requested her bike get a tune up as she wants to start riding to school now that it's warmed up. I'll be dropping it off at the shop on my way to a lunch date.
At least the Lakers won last night!!!!! :o)
So I worked the door at the bar Friday and Saturday nights. Friday night was BUSY! busiest I've ever seen the bar. I didn't get home until 3am. Saturday we hit the Rennesaince Faire in our area. FUN! We all wore costumes, I was a wench, Beth was a gypsy, Tori and Katie wore princess dresses I'd made a few years back for them for a wedding (this was the last year for those dresses!)... drew wore his Kilt (though he called it a quilt) and a peasant shirt, along with his dad. We bought Beth a gypsy top while there, it's her birthday present. I'll make her a skirt out of similar colors as a surprize. :o) we tried to get me a new underskirt, but I wasn't willing to pay what they were asking when I know I can make my own for not even 1/3 of the cost.
Sunday was Mother's day, I rang in our handbell choir at church, then we went to the Beach house for lunch. We watched the lakers not show up for the semi-finals game. sad. The flip side of that though was that there were a lot of fouls called in favor of the jazz and alot of fouls NOT called for the lakers. We left there and headed straight to Outback to meet my Mom, Dad, Brother, SIL, and Nephew. Dinner was yummy, the conversations were great.. and we were home, with me in a bubble bath by 7:30pm. :o)
I've done lots of NOTHING today. Two loads of laundry are washed. One load is in machine. I did get two baskets put away. But the entire love seat is COVERED in clean laundry to fold and put away. and here I sit.
I'm off to at least try to get something visible accomplished today.
Wow. Friday after I dropped the kids off, I came back cleaned out the van, and left intending to get it washed on the way to Disneyland. Well, I got to Disneyland, but the van still waits to be washed. LOL. I went to check out the 50 years of Magic film they are showing on Main street, something the kids likely wouldn't be that interested in. TOTALLY cool. They had all kinds of memorabilia in the foyer to the theatre. Really neat. Steve Martin and Donald Duck sort of co-host the film. It was awesome. After that I rode Pirates, Splash mtn, thunder mtn. and had lunch at the Golden Horseshoe revue. Too fun. I left the parks with enough time to get Drew, it was just what the Mouse ordered!
Friday night I went with my parents, Tim, and Chris to celebrate Chris's bday and my passing the CBEST. I can now substitute teach!!! YAY! Much partying occurred between the two pubs we visited. Saturday I had an all day women's retreat with my church, it was really nice, and I truly enjoyed the being away from everything and getting to visit with women. I worked the door at the bar Saturday night. Sunday was church, then I did some shopping. I got sleeping bags for the 3 littles, and mess kits for the 3 girls. All for summer camps, and camping trips. Then I picked up kids from playdates and such and did dinner.
Then there was yesterday. Cinco de Mayo. I met mom at the bar, I had a few margaritas, lunch, and lots of water. I went to get the kids, and ended up going back to the bar after Bell choir. What an adventure. I had one more beer and 2 water bottles but the fun was watching all "the guys" celebrate the day. They are a hoot when they've have a few. (let me state though that none of them drive, they all shared a taxi to and from). I didn't get home until 1:30am ouch. This morning hurt. But I did get a nice nap in, after I took Beth to the asthma dr. She's fine, just a meds review. :o)
Now I'm off to enjoy a nice soak in the tub and my pillow.
