Monday morning

We are leaving later for work, on Sat morning, dh found an ACH on our bank account that we did not authorize. He went to the bank Sat morning, only to have the teller tell him we needed to contact the company and have them refund us. But in the meantime, you are out of this amount (@$1200). sooooooo, he calls the company first thing this morning, after being sent to "Escalation" twice, he was sent to "fraud" only to be told he needs to have the bank reverse the payment. So, we are off to the bank this morning, again...
I think he should ask for a manager, this time. We may end up having to close this account, which is a pain in the rear, as we do have some automatic payments coming out of it...our car insurance, his tractor payment, the Sallie Mae school loans..whatta pain as we will have to make changes.


I did work on my Proj 365 layout over the weekend. Kept it real simple, as I don't want to overwhelm myself and end up not doing it at all. Soooo glad I put the pics on the blog, as I actually forgot what I took a couple of the days!

The rest of the weekend was spent being lazy.

But J and Nyki stopped by yesterday afternoon, they were looking at houses. Found 3 they liked, one in a better city,(less a commute for J) smaller, cost more but meets their needs. 2 out here in our small town, cost less, meets their needs and wants, so we all discussed what we liked/did not like so they could decide which house to put an offer on. I really like the house they were leaning toward, but it does have an odd shaped kitchen and no pantry. (has cabinets in the dining area) which Nyki did not like...but the rest of the house was coooool. Little courtyard area when you walk in, wrought iron stairs, 3rd seperate garage...so we'll just have to see.


okay, Proj 365





Saturday morning, ice on our cars. Now, we live in the middle of CA, we dont' get snow, so this is as close as we get.





Sunday afternoon, Percy enjoying a little bit of sunshine. It's been so foggy and gloomy, this little bit of sunshine is such a relief. Still colder than heck out there, but ahhhhh....

an interesting morning...

My mom and may cat are 'fighting'. How do you 'fight' with a cat, you ask?

My mom is not a cat person, in fact she won't sit on my couch because of the cathair.

The other morning, she caught Percy sitting in one of the dining room chairs, so she started to yell at him and move the chair so he would leave. He did leave, with a lot of growling and hissing. I told her, she should not have done that. (this is not their first encounter like this)I try to tell her that Percy is the boss of this house and he can sit wherever he likes.

This morning, I was in bed reading, with Percy cuddled next to me. Mom came into the room and started to tell me the Sports News. While talking about Oklahoma's loss, she got a little loud...well, Percy reacted. He started to growl, hiss and strike at her with his paw. She screamed and ran from the room...aye yi yi.

I told her its because she started to get loud and he remembers the other day. DH thinks he was 'protecting' me. She calls him a 'devil cat' (remember she's Japanese, and I think Japanese folklore is not real friendly about cats) because his face transforms, his eyes 'glow' and his back gets all "big" when he does that.

like a couple of kids, I tell ya. though I wish I had my camera for a picture!!

so, here is project 365 for yesterday:





Mom and I are the queens of leftovers, between the 2 of us, we actually do pretty good at eating them..but with dh out of town, we have quite a collection. I should probably clear it out a bit.

Today, finish putting up last of Christmas decorations. and Scrap, I hope to play with project 365 page, and work on the Christmas Journal...and...

a fun pic for the 8th...

This is one I've been wanting to take for a while. At work, we have 4 preggos, and I've been wanting to take a belly shot of the 4 of them...but trying to get them to agree, and together in one spot, has been difficult.

So, from left to right, according to due dates, we have:

Maria, having a boy, due in February
Ana, having a boy, due in March
Nyki, (my ddil), having a girl, due in April
and Betsy, we find out today if its a boy or girl, due in May

We may even put this picture up on the 'Company Safety Incident Board'...what do you think the title should say, "Don't drink the Water"...?

back to the grind...

Yesterday was my first day back at work. siiiiiigh. so my project 365 pic for the 6th is my desk. Before I even got the chance to clock in, PROBLEMS, so the first part of the morning, I was a wee bit stressed. But things settled and I was able to accomplish my day 1 of the close process. Good news, I did have 7 boxes waiting for me. The 2 peas Christmas clearance, the spica markers from Cat's Pajamas, and I took part in I am a Scrapaholic's Warehouse sale, and got a box of stamps/inks...wonderful.





AND I've already got today's Project 365 pic...dh took down part of our fence this morning. He uses the tractor to take out the trash can, forgot he had discs attached, and... well, sheared off a section of fence! ahhhh, life on the 'ranch' or is it life with Mikey!!


So, guess now I've got to figure out how to scrap these. I think, I'm just going to keep it simple (for me) and use a couple of 12x12 scrapbooks. and my stash.

well, off to work. yeehaw..too much fun!

Its Monday, and guess what...

I'm not at work. I was going to go...but ended up making calls for my mom, about her insurance and the urgent care visit in July that they did not pay. Oh what fun..by the time I got off the phone, it was 9am, so it did not make sense to me to drive to work (45 min) to leave work at 1:30 to drive to my dentist appt (a little over 1 hour) to go home (another 40 minutes). I'd work about 3 hours, and drive at least that long. But I got stuff done, more phone calls for mom, post office, dentist. Oh, and a nice nap-py-pooh.

I spent yesterday reading, Midnight Sun, the telling of Twilight from Edward's point of view. Oooooo=weeeh! be still my beating heart. be warned though, its over 200 pages, so don't think its a quick read. I can't wait till this is in print, so I can have it in my collection. (to share with dd, of course..nah, she can get her own copy)


so here are my Project 365 pics:





day 3, Saturday, are the Christmas decorations waiting to be boxed. We started un-decorating. But did not finish all of it. ALL 3 of our backs were aching by the time we were done.




day 4, Sunday, I just took a picture of the spaghetti dh was making. He makes his own from scratch sauce and this was an extra yummy batch. He caught me taking the pic, and said, 'Hey, you didn't stir!!"





day 5, Monday, saw the silhouette of this tree while driving home from the dentist, it fit the mood of the afternoon....its been a cold foggy sprinkly day out here. this was taken at 3:30 this afternoon, but, hey, it is good 'Edward' weather!! (Oh, I am just losing it, ain't I)


Okay, guess I'll take me and my drooly mouth to another room. See if I can accomplish SOMETHING today. I'd scrap, but I am starting to feel headachy now that the numbing is wearing off. Don't you hate going to the dentist?, but then I was thinking all these fillings and missing teeth will make me easy to identify if needed. Man, I watch too many forensic crime shows don't I?

a li'l disappointment yesterday

soo, I'm working on my Journal Your Christmas, and it's going pretty good, I get to day 19, and then...my little hp photosmart has a message for me... 'ink cartridge failed. Please replace cartridge' Huh? this cartridge is less than a month old?

how could it fail?

Guess I'm going to WM's to buy another one, I hope that will correct the problem, but I'm not too optimistic. How does such a new cartridge fail? I haven't printed that many pics on it? I'm confused.

I also need to buy my bin for my bills...time to think about preparing for April 15th, yuck.




Well, here's my day 2 of project 365...this is Marshall, begging for a piece of my bbq chicken. While we were living in the trailer, dh made it a habit to feed Marshall our food. They would sit together in the dining booth and dh
would feed him. I told him, he was "teaching the cat bad habits". He would just respond, "Awww, we are buddies". But since moving into the house, Marshall has just gotten ruder and ruder, to the point where he is grabbing food off your plate whenever he can. I am sitting at the table, Marshall is standing to reach the table, and his paw is making its way to my plate...he is a pain. But we love him.

New Year's Day was spent in the Japanese grand tradition of Laziness...

Well, except the first thing I did was clean/organize my scraproom a little.
moved some books to another room, moved stuff off the floor, reogranized, even did a page or 2, and prepped for a couple more pages. But as DH said, that was not work for me, that was play.

Then ds and ddil stopped by, we watched "The Family Stone". and that was it for me, once I got on that couch there was no getting up!...after the kids left, I watched an episode of the Closer on my dvr...then "It Happened One Night" with Clark Gable...then dh and I watched "Encino Man" (talk about stupid but fun!)(talk about a CUTE Brendan Frasier!) and finished it off with CSI.




So, I'm not officially doing project 365, but kinda 'lurking' the idea, but this pic was perfect! It's Kema and Rocky...dh slept in, so here are the boys, looking thru our back door, wondering what 'papa' is doing. 'Papa' was on the couch watching some of the UFC fights, then Lynard Skynard's Farm Aid performance... he's not usually a couch potato, so the pups and me were a little surprised.