It's the Weekend...

Saturday.  That means yard sales!  Not having one, but going to as many as I can find and looking for treasures or things I want/need but don't like to pay full price for.  I went out with my friend Donna this morning.  After making the ritual Starbuck's stop (the new salted caramel Mocha is do die for!), we headed out to start looking.  Our first stop was a good one.  Found some clothes that were super clean and nice!  The next few stops produced some nice picture frames that will go in the extra room (I have a plan!).  After the frames, I didn't find much other than a faux Gucci purse that looks very real.  $14 later, I had several frames, a few cute clothes, and a travel bowl for the dogs.  I've already painted a couple of the frames and have the others ready for painting.  Not sure what color for those yet.  I got more paint for the cute table I started last week, but forgot to get more painter's tape.  Boo.

I had a lot of plans for this weekend, but I have a feeling that some of those plans are going to get moved to another day.  I got some yard trash in the dumpster, did some cleaning of the chicken condos, did some watering, and so far, that's about it.  I'm thinking that a nap might be in order.

Here are a couple of things that I'm going to try to work on tomorrow...provided nothing else comes up (like a another nap).  I found a couple of things on Pinterest, that I must try.  There's a pin for cleaning a microfiber couch and one for getting your porcelain sink back to white. I put the links below just in case:

Microfiber couch cleaning
Porcelain sink cleaning

Both of those items in my house NEED a good cleaning!  The temperature is going to be pretty ridiculous again tomorrow (102 by Monday), so it might be a good day to turn on the AC and clean.  Or it might be a good day to hang out on the couch and watch football.  I do need to work on a baby beanie for a friend and some new headbands for the headband business.

So much to do, but so little time.  I miss summer!!!!  Okay, off to try to get something done.  Or nap.  I'll let you know how that turned out later.

Friday at last!!  All I'm looking forward to is 5 o'clock.  Going fishing with Husband!!  Hopefully we'll catch that fatty lunk lunk we've been looking for.  Tomorrow is a yard sale day and a furniture reform day.  Pretty sure the giant basket of school work to correct is going to go for yet another ride in my car.  Oh well...that's what Monday is for!

What a crock!

What a good little Thursday I'm having!  Got up early, worked out with some ab exercises, got ready for school, and threw some stuff in the crock pot.  I really feel like the crock pot should be included with the other Wonders of the World.  I literally dumped two pounds of frozen beef stew meat, the contents of an au jus mix packet, a packet of ranch seasoning, a can of diced peeled tomatoes, some leftover chopped onion, and a package of sliced mushrooms into the crock portion of the crock pot, turned it on low and left for work.  Husband went home around lunch time to meet the "Safelite repair, Safelite replace" guy to replace my car windshield and said the house smelled delicious!  A quick stir, and dinner will be awaiting our return later this afternoon.  Yum!!!

Pictures of the completed meal will be posted later.  I wish it was later already.

Speaking of pictures, it was Picture Day at school today.  All the girls had curly hair, and all the boys were fairly clean and neat.  All bets are off on all of that now, since it is now after lunch recess.  Doesn't take 6th graders long to become unpleasant to view and smell.  Something new happened today though. The kids were waiting in line to take their pictures and the picture taker was collecting payments, which typically are in the form of cash or bad checks.  One of my students pulls out an American Express to pay for her pictures.  What???!!!!  So, what parent thinks this is a good idea???  Obviously, hers, but seriously?  Mind bottling!! I guess that's just life these days, or an awesome show of stupidity.  I'm leaning toward the latter.

Well, lunch is over and the children will be filing back in shortly.  Stay tuned for the photo of my crocked dinner.  :)

** I wish I could say that the photo would be here now, but I completely forgot to take a picture of the stuff and when I remembered, it was all gone!  I guess that's a testament as to how good it was.  The dogs got the juices leftover poured over their kibble this morning and they thought it was the best thing they'd ever gotten in their dishes!  Jetta pushed her bowl all over the place trying to lick every last bit.

Yesterday was a horrendously stupid day.  Tara's team won against Hoover High, but the game was the most frustrating and stressful game I've ever watched.   Know how I know it was a stupid day???  Nothing in my agenda was completed.  Other than making copies, which my classroom aide did and going to watch volleyball, nothing else got completed.  Ugh.  I don't want to relive any of the events of yesterday, so mum's the word on the rest of the day.

Today is a better day.  Today is still hot, but it is a minimum day as far as work is concerned.  Every Wednesday, the kids go home shortly after lunch and aside from a meeting or two, the day is pretty low key.    Husband is out early as well, so we are going to go home, make dinner, sit on the couch, watch crime, and have a nice quiet evening.  We've become fans of the show Criminal Minds and have dvr'd every episode available.  We probably should have just bought the dvds and watched them in order, but where's the fun in that?  The characters are pretty entertaining.  Fish is in love with Dr. Spencer Reed, who is the super smart, super social retard, super nerdy guy who looks like he is 12.  She has plans to marry him someday.  Why not?  He probably has a lot of money.

UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  My day just got stupid again.  Seems there is a rodent that was inhabiting the classroom next door.  I just found evidence that the beast has been to my room as well. If you read yesterday's blog, you know that mice are on my "Negative Nancy" list.  Hopefully, the rest of the day will go better with less creepy animal life.  We'll see...

Negative Nancy

I'm feeling a little annoyed today, so I'm going to visit my negative side and write a list about things that I don't like.

1.  No ice cubes in the ice cube tray.
2.  Replacement refs in the NFL.
3.  Hot weather.
4.  Stations that play songs on an endless loop.  Love you T. Swift, but tired of your new song already!
5.  Remembering what I forgot earlier when it's too late.
6.  Snot...especially kid snot.
7.  Mice, rats, or other rodents that have invited themselves into my classroom or other personal areas.
8.  Children who do not have manners.
9.  Adults who don't have manners.
10. California Fish & Game rules that make Husband grouchy.
11. Hummers, unless they are manned by U.S. Military.
12. Facebook posts about how happy you are with your spouse (they are probably cheating).
13. Spiders, snakes, and maggots.
14. Things I don't get done, so they keep moving to a new page in my notebook.
15. People who think they are smarter than me...and employ elaborate vocabulary to no avail.
16. Mean people.
17. Freeway traffic...any traffic for that matter.
18. Cashiers who don't pay attention to you when you are right in front of them.
19. Sweet potatoes with the marshmallow stuff on top.
20. Paper torn out of a spiral notebook with all the fuzzy things still attached to the side.

I could go on, I suppose, but then that would make me look very negative!  Ha ha.  Maybe tomorrow, I'll do a list of things I like.  Depends on how the day goes, I guess.

Monday Monday...

It's Monday.  And it's going to be hot.  Again.  Seriously, this is the longest hot spell that I can remember in a very long time.  Yesterday, it was supposed to be cooler, but when I went to get us dinner around 4:30 pm, this is what my car told me:

2nd day of fall

They (not sure who these "they" people are) claim that the temperature will be 7 to 9 degrees cooler today than yesterday.  I'm not holding my breath on this.  I think that in my next career, I would like to be a weather forecaster.  Very few jobs allow their employees to have such a high error rate and still remain employed.  Truly amazing.

Yesterday ended up being a bit more productive than originally anticipated.  I started working on the small table that I wasn't sure I'd keep or sell.  Looks as though I am going to keep it after all.  Husband went to the local Ace Hardware to get some eye bolts for his duck blind that he installed on his boat.  I perused the spray paint aisle, since the paint aisle is always a favorite place of mine.  I found an Ace brand paint called "Mechnical Gray" and fell in love!  So, it came home with me.  I started painting a couple of picture frames with it and the color is gorgeous!!  It comes out like a steel blue/gray which I am currently in love with.  I am going to paint the top of the table a satin black and leave the rest the gray color.  Can't wait until it is done!  It's going to go in the Nina/Tyler/Tara's old room/Luke/spare room/extra closet/junk/catch-all/hunting/fishing room, which I am redoing from top to bottom.  Here it is in progress.

I really like the gray with the wood tone.  On a future piece perhaps.  There's always a future piece.....ha ha. The frames are looking good too, so when those are finished, I will post a picture of them too.  

I also started the plans for the birdhouse, but realized I didn't have any colors other than white.  I want it to have  a worn rustic look, so I was trying to decide how to accomplish that.  I think I have a plan, so more on that piece later too.  

Today, I had to go to work, so no time for fun projects.  Next weekend is looking promising though.  Nothing planned, so far.  Yeah!!  Tonight I get to do more laundry (never ends in our house, especially with this stupid heat) and plan some meals for the rest of the week.  Boom!  Exciting life I lead.  Oh, I'm going to go work out after school.  Figure I will already be hot, miserable, and sweaty.  Might as well make that load of laundry worth it.  Ha ha!  So, to close, I leave you with this quote I saw on a t-shirt at Fish's volleyball tournament last weekend.  

I'm going to be a champion!

It's Sunday, which in some circles equals a day of rest.  I'm partially in that circle.  Other than a few loads of laundry, and some random watering, my plans are to camp out on our couch and watch some football with Husband.  I'll probably get a little school work done, paint my toes and nails,  and might even break out the headband/beanie crocheting.  None of which requires leaving the couch area.

Oh, I did take a few pictures of the project pieces I have lined up for October.  Here they are:

Side table...I have a table addiction.
Not sure if this will be a keep or sell item yet.

The plan is red, white, and blue like the barn on Ave. 12.

My new bedside table.

Headboard?  Photo holder?
I haven't decided.

I will post after pictures when I'm done!  Off to begin my relaxing day on the couch!  :)