WELCOME TO MONDAY YA'LL

Good am,

How are ya'll doing? Great I hope. How was your weekend? I cannot even list everything our entailed as it was on the go, jam packed, rawkin! Friday pm Tammy, Steve & I headed our for some shopping, dinner, chatting and then downtown to see Boss Kean's Ditch. Had a great time! Got home something to 3 am after a stop off at Wawa and ran into a friend. Get home and I am one of those who just cannot go right to sleep after lots of excitement so I vegged a bit then was out by just about 4 am. The buggas had me back up just about 8. Sat was more shopping, cleaning, packing, moving (friend is moving home), her roommates have THREE cats which I'm highly allergic and by the time I came home it was inhaler/nebulizer and then more packing of a different kind (vacation) then felt like crap so got into bed but didn't get to rest until about 1 am. Sun was jam packed too. Was back up around 6 and then more shopping, packing, etc, cleaning, chores, errands, then finally home to rest again in the late pm. Managed to catch up with a couple friends but not for long. Body said its time to hit the hay woman! The 3 of us were in bed by 10 ish pm and back up for 5:40. Weeeeeeeeeeeee!

So, what's on the books for your Monday? I am gonna be pushing through my To Do List in a MAJOR way and work with the energy I seem to have. Its cooler in the am's so I'm gonna get things in nature wise early on. What a GORGEOUS am its shaping up to be. I've got to get some plans underway as this month is a HUGE deal for various reasons. In what ever ya'll do please smile your best smile and remember just when you think you've got it bad someone else's day is worse. Be thankful for the little things and real big ones and never forget to give back when and where you can. Smile! It looks GOOD on ya!

Hugs and love and all that jazz!

Morning Beautiful!!!!  So glad to hear that your weekend was great!!!!  Sounds like you had a blast.  Mine was pretty good too.  Friday was a quiet evening at home.  Did some baking, dinner and spent time with my hubby.  Saturday I got up and since it was cloudy instead of hitting the pool with a friend we went shopping.  Got some stuff for the house and some school clothes for the girlies.  My friend hung out for dinner, then we watched a movie.  Yesterday was a lazy morning, then off to my nephews bday party, a bowling date with some friends and then home to relax.  Didn't sleep that great so I am dragging a bit this a.m. but hopefully I will rev up here soon.  Have a great day!  Love you much!!!!

mmm...baking!  Can't wait to be able to do that again.  I just need to find the time!  Isn't shopping fun?  I saved a bunch of money this weekend.  Great sales and no tax!

Tam

Good Morning Sunshine!!

My weekend was pretty jamed pack!

My sister is in a lull and has hid herself away from those that love her.  My mom finally broke through and got a hold of her Friday night.  She chastized her for not reaching out to those that love her. 

I called her Saturday morning and TOLD her she was going with me to Starbuck and Ukrops on my quest to quench my meatball sub craving.  She agreed.  So I rearranged my morning and pushed back the workout until late that day.  I got ready and picked her and my nephew up. I dropped Buddy (nickname) off to his cousins and uncle at home and off we went.  I let her talk through what is going on and listend.  She is have a horrible reaction to the medication she was put on to address the anxitey problems.  We have the same DR and she tired putting me on the same thing, but I refused to take it.  She is dealing with that and her anxiety and she is getting more and more depressed over it.  She felt like she was alone in her what she is going through. 

Then I talked.  I have anxiety problems as well and I validated what she was feeling. I related to the depression. We are not dpressed, but when the anxiety is a big issue and things are not getting better, we can get depressed over that.  I was able to relate to her panic attacks and she was amazed I could explain to a T what happens to here.  She looked me and said, "But when I feel this way, I think of you and how you are able to do what you do, work three jobs, go to school and raise three kids." 

I laughed and told her that all because I do this, does not mean I am still not a mess sometimes and I have panic attacks.  But I still have to push through, I can not let it rule my life. I need to address the issues and get on.  We talked about coping mechanisms and changing the wanting to sleep and isolation as escaping and what could be done differently.  Overall, I think it helped knowing she was not alone,a nd that someone understood where she was coming from.

I made my meatballs and feed my family and my sis and nephew. It was a budge hit and turned out better then suspected.

After they left, I had a wonderful conversation with Miss Ann. Oh, I am so excited to have a wedding planner.  She is phenomenal!!

Then I coaxed my freind out of her house to come over and have a chat.  she needed it.  We were up until 1130pm talking.  So I never made it to the gym.

Yesterday, I was exhausted and rested as much as I could during the day.  It was hair washing day for the girls.  I took a tiny nap and when hubby made it home I ran as fast as I could to the gym. When I got home I had to do some work for work that I put off all weekend.  I was up until 1am working. 

Got up at 6 this morning and headed to work.  I have a crazy busy week with financial reportings do for end of the month.  then we also have a big quarterly reports due this month. It is hell month.

Melissa,

Sorry your sis is having a rough time of it right now.  It is great that you can be there for her.  I'll be praying for her and i'm here if you need anything.  Just let me know!

Tam

Yay, I'm glad you had a great time! You definitely deserve it!

 I had a wonderful time at the Dentist on Friday (not), after three hours of drill & constant re-numbing I was finally out of there. I do have to say that she did a great job and so far I've only been a little sore, no repercussions as of yet! She also gave me white fillings instead of silver for free, that rocks. I went to a meeting on Friday night and dinner with the J Crew. I needed it, badly.

Saturday, I had volleyball signups and we finally made a decision to buy some furniture. I'm not happy with the price, but it needed to get done and it worked out. I also caught a meeting that night and went out with the Saturday Crew. We were 37 people strong, poor No Frill. They are so accomidating to us.

Sunday was work your butt off day. Reg and I spent countless hours cleaning and rearranging the bedrooms. We are putting most of my furniture into B's room and I'm selling his stuff. My stuff won't arrive til Wednesday, so you can imagine the disarray of random pieces of furniture spread throughout the house. I just don't have enough space, period. I'm seriously considering renting a small storage unit right now.

Anyway, it was a decent weekend over all.

Today, I'm working and then going home to continue cleaning up on the house. I'm hoping this lady is going to come and buy B's bed. I'm supposed to go to my homegroup tonight, if I feel like I've made some progress, I will! Tuesday is going to be super busy so I won't get anything done, that leaves tonight and part of Wednesday before Billie gets here on Thursday.

LYLT,
A

A,

Glad you had a good weekend.  I can't wait till I get new furniture.  I need it, but alas it is not in the budget!  It will come when the time is right.

Sorry it took so long at the dentist.  I have never been in that long and would probably go crazy if I did!  I love going to mine.  Actually, my whole family goes there now!

Tam

Good morning, beautiful!  How are you?  I am fine...but stressed!  Had a blast this weekend and saved a bunch of $!
You know about Friday...went shopping, had a good dinner and went and listened to an awesome band!  Steve and I had a blast and can't wait to do it again!  I got some really great shots and will be passing them on as soon as I can.  We went straight to work after coming home, then got home about 6 ish.  I slept till 8 ish then got Steve up for work (he had to go in for an hour) then got the day started myself.  We picked up Adam and Josh and off to the Williamsburg Outlets we went!  We shopped for FIVE HOURS!!!  Then we went to grab some dinner and off to Busch Gardens we went.  We rode a few rides together then Steve and I went to get a good seat for the Charlie Daniel's Band.  It was an awesomee concert and I got some more great pictures!  We were on the second row!  We came home ...got there about 12ish...unloaded our purchases and off to work we went.  We took the kids with us to help.  I am glad we did cause it was a horrible night!  We got home about 630.  I slept for a couple of hours then back at it I was.  Kara was really sick yesterday am but is 100% better now.  We went to the mall to get a few more things then grocery shopping.  I came home and did a couple of loads of laundry, cooked dinner and watched some tv  with Steve and my dad.  Went to bed about 10 or so.
This morning started off on the wrong foot,,,The papers didn't get to the plant till 330 AM so Steve didn't get home till 5:40 this AM.  That put me way behind schedule...almost an hour!  I did what I could and will finish tonight.
No big plans for tonight.  Hopefully Steve will take a nap when he gets home so we can spend some time together when I get home!
See ya soon!
Tam