Good Morning. Looks like we have an eastbound storm

Everyone in its path be careful out there today. Maybe I can get a couple of walks in before it hits and I really need to start my push-ups again.
 
What's on your to-do list this week?

I have a boatload of dry cleaning to take in and we need to start getting things together to do taxes. Let's see...I need to make a quick trip to VitaminShoppe and Bath and Body Works. Gotta make a big pot of chili tonight. I think that's it.

Y'all have a great Monday!

--gina

I'm flying to Connecticut for work.  I have an appointment with my hair guy when I get home.   I'm not looking forward to the cold weather.  It has been in the 80s here.  I like getting together with the team I'm on.  We do the same job in different parts of the country.  It is nice to get together with people that can relate to you.

I am looking forward to getting something done with my hair.  I feel like I'm balding.  It is thicker on the bottom and thins as it goes up my head.  DH can't tell the difference, but I can!

Gotta finish packing.  Happy Monday!

Kay

Nothing much, bringing in DS#2 for allergy testing.

I've got a list, mostly following up on stuff from last week.  We are just getting the wet part of the storm and we need rain so that's ok.  It will make me stay in and get stuff done.  Zumba tonight babeee.

 Thanks Gina  ..im in the show  today and tomorrow  ..its already raining here  .   It was gorgeous yesterday  ..the landlord said he would finish putting the greenhouse cover up ..I wasn't there to crack the whip ( and make coffee , chocolate chip cookies etc...  ) and  Encourage lol ...

so I discover this morning that nothing got done ...   .  The babies  which will be  ready to go out in less  then a week will have no home ....  the  strawberry transplants I ALREADY  put in those beds on Saturday aren't covered .... ACH the  DISASTER .. 

I should wake him up  by "accidentally " throwing a pot of cold water over him    lol  he'll see how the little  strawberries are feeling  .... 

AFTER the show  its onto a brand new mortgage  application with Wells Fargo for the same property  they conditionally approved us for  PROVIDED hubby sold his  present house first back in December .  Thats an issue  because obviously he can't sell it that fast  ...so now  they are  " recalculating "  GRRR.  Of course interest rates are higher ... Ill just be glad to get in there no matter HOW  at this point  ....  IF we can...   .  I really NEED  a real garden  - and I  don't mean a 19  by 30  foot one lol !  

Hubs and I really  need a  new marital home too  ... this  situation  of where I am coming there as a ( not very welcome - especially by his son) VISITOR  on the weekends working like a dog  free to renovate the place  getting SCREAMED at  by a bunch of hoarders  ( understandably )  reluctant to part with their stuff  is not making  our  marriage any happier .. on EITHER side  lol .   I feel unappreciated .. he feels browbeaten and berated ... and I am  fundamentally angry that I was lured into this marriage on false pretenses since he DID propose to me with that house  .  

And  I on the other hand am losing a bunch of MY  income  because  I am working for free  on his place  ....  and getting literally nothing in return.  NOT to mention  my on camera career lol which passes  in dog years  for women.....  

So  I guess this  is a last ditch effort which will either  work or not .   I don't think I will stay  in the marriage  if it doesn't .  So far I have gotten literally  NOTHING  out of this marriage but aggravation.  

Rainy  thoughts  for a rainy day ....  but I know  I deserve better than this  ... I think FAT  and depressed I would have wasted ten years  trying to make it work ...  now  Ill just recognize it as a mistake and  get an anullment and move on ...  .  I deserve a guy that supports ME  too and  doesn't just  take from me  and use me to solve  his ( million )  problems  and give me nothing in return.  

(((HUGS))) to you Ava.  I have a feeling you're not really surprised by all this though, but feel tremendously let down because he didn't hold up his end of the agreement.

Do what you need to do and what makes YOU happy.  Perhaps the threat of you annuling the marriage will get him off his duff and he'll know you're serious and he can't just run over you at his (and his son's) will.

Good Morning Ladies,
I love Bath & Body Works..I took my girls there last week. I let them pick out one of the mini's (lotion or Body spray) They thought the world of that little mini trip lol. I love the sweet pea! I think that is my all time favorite.

Taxes shewww thank goodness mine is done lol...I'm an early filer lol...

My week's outlook gosh with 6 kids do you all really want to know :)

Today: Online tutoring ( I have a home school daughter), all over house clean, help out at my church
Tuesday: Jayden shots, pto meeting at my kids school, dance class with my girls
Wednesday: Speech class for my son, Church
Thursday: restock my pantry, meeting at my son schools, Gym class for my boys, Birthday party
Friday: Hubby has class, 2 hour for Mommy time, School testing for my daughter, Movie night with my kids.
Saturday: My daughter's birthday party turning 10 :(
Sunday Church....And family time!

Sheww ok there is it. WOW and I'm going to add a job to all of this lol...

Hope you all of a very blessed week! Its nice wet and cold here right now :(

Didn't hear about the storm.... but the wind is blowing something in.

Yesterday I raked leaves out of my mid-sized azalea/dogwood bed.  Took me about 90 minutes, and I noticed my hamstrings are feeling it today.  Good!   I'm going to capitalize on that today and walk outside for 30 minutes. Not sure if I'll tackle our neighborhood, which is one hill after the other, but I might walk the local park which is flat. I downloaded the C25K podcasts (thank you all for mentioning it) and I'm going to begin that plan.

For the rest of the week?  Lordy, right now I'm taking it day by day.  This is day 14 post-op for me.
I broke the 180s this morning.

tracey

 wow !  Ure a real  energizer bunny Tracey     this was me  14 days post lol and this ...  .  


I'm so envious U have a WHOLE BED of just azaleas and dogwoods .. WOW  !  pretty please  take a picture for us  when they come into bloom ......

Ava, come on down here and you can enjoy them with me.  Most of my azaleas are late and mid-late blooming, so about mid to late April unless the weather gets REAL warm. 

I ended up not walking, the garden called me again. So I raked my kitchen garden and my large azalea bed of winter leaves, I also did pull some weeds (they're easy since the soil is so loose), but noticed that the bending over wasn't the best for me.  My heart just fell when I realized two 16 year old azaleas, planted the year I built my house, had died.  Last year was hard on azaleas, all the snow and freezing weather, and that's 10 azaleas I've lost in two years.   I feel an azalea buying spree in my near future.  Maybe more dogwoods, something to be a natural transition between garden and woods, behind where the large azalea bed is now. 
 

My garden's three special visitors from a couple years back: 3 cardinals in our mock orange that is in front of our side bedroom window.