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Now Playing: Even the Losers (Get Lucky Sometimes) Tom Petty
Topic: Family Business


Well at least the garden is thriving, yesterday we went to a local campground (well, next county over, 25 mile ride but who's counting) which has a pool, for $3.50 a person we got to swim, they open at 10 & close at 5, it was pretty much worth it but it caused me to have to jam 2 days worth of errands into 1 day, complicated by the fact that my painful shoulder was eased by a combination of icy hot & a thermal heat pack on it overnight so I had the best nights sleep I've had in about a week....As a result I slept to about 10 am, interestingly enough all the kids did too! All that fresh air & sunshine plus splashing around in the pools really wiped them out. I usualy use Cameron as my alarm clock on non-work days & he showed up after Valerie at about 1015, so we did laundry, washed dishes, funny how everyone has a day to wash dishes during the week(those of us over 15 have 2) But only on the day I wash dishes do the dishes, cups, spoons & forks come down from upstairs! Lois doesn't bring them on her days because then she'd have to wash them all in addition to carry them downstairs.
We ran 42 errands in Town today, running from place to place, when I lived in town it was easier somehow, to plan where I needed to go & get it done in an orderly fashion, nowadays, I run from place to place & back again, everyone was hungry & I know better than to go to either the health food store or the regular grocery with everyone like that. but we had to go right past the health food store on our way to check if the- Guy-who-sells-Strawberries-from-the-back-of-his
-truck-in-the-dollar-store-parking-lot was there. (He wasn't, but we were a little late, we arrived in town at about 1230 & I used to see him between 845 & 1130 last year & the year before.)
Then since I don't like that particular dollar store we had to go across town to the other dollar store to get spoons, (this is a sore point, about 3 weeks ago I realized we were down to 5 spoons so I bought some cheap spoons, they were 3 for a dollar at the dollar store & I figured since they're treating them like they're disposable we might as well buy cheap ones, well like I said, this was 3 weeks ago & I bought 9 - so with the 5 I had we had 14 spoons 3 weeks ago, today while doing the dishes I found we had 2 regular teaspoon sized spoons. 2!! 2 spoons in a house with 6 people, at least 2 of whom, (Chrissie & I) hardly even eat there! so back to the dollar store, I bought a dozen, how many do you suppose I'll have when we leave for vacation July 10th? 4? I wouldn't doubt it.)
Off to Subway for subs the kids insisted they needed, having been in Mass over the weekend the whole Subway roast beef experience was totally lacking in general although except for the square pickles on the sub I had in Rockland the sub was merely so so too, the roast beef was gray instead of bright red & that makes all the difference in the world.
Multiple stops for this that & the other thing ended us up at the grocery store, I'm one of those people I used to hate, when the chain came here I swore I'd never shop there, I would support the local place, no matter what (I do my real shopping -2 weeks worth at a time- in C'Burg because it's cheaper & there's more variety- & I always have.) but for a few things of the milk, bread & snacks variety we shop in town & as I said I didn't touch the chain store for a year or so, then came a Sunday night when I was arriving in town after a busy day visiting Chrissie, with not just my 3 kids but Chrissie's daughter too. it was 945 on sunday night & everyone had decided they were hungry - we'd had a dinner/lunch combo at like 430 that afternoon & it was a choice between the chain store or the convenience store & I entered the chain, I swaped back & forth for awhile but the selection is so much better at the chain (although the milk's a dollar cheaper at the little grocery)I can actualy almost do 2 weeks shopping there instead of going into C'Burg & I have done so when it was snowing or we had other stuff going on during a Saturday which would usually be our shopping excursion day. So swallowing down my guilt we went in & shopped, my kids are not easy to shop with, we get lots of whining, fit throwing, stomping around. Valerie knocked down a whole display of ice cream cones & both her sister & brother who had been egging her on to the stunt that knocked them over, walked off saying 'Whos that kid, boy is she gonna be in trouble' after we got that picked up we got to have a glaring contest with the woman running the service desk, aparently in 7th grade Lois had an altercation with this woman's daughter & the protective instint being what it is the woman wanted to come kick Lois' ass for it. this of course never happened but the woman still has an attitude towards all of us.
As always, every where we go we elicit comments about look at all the redheads, where did you get that red hair ha-ha etc. I like it still but the kids find it old & annoying!
After everyone's favorite Summer dinner, Tuna Fish & salad fixings with chips. during which we watched the first Pirates of the Carribean movie in preperation for the new movie coming out. (Cam's never been to a movie at the theater & Val went when she was 2 or 3 months old- I really wanted to see escape from LA- I was disapointed!) I went out to check the garden, we've had some truly scary thunderstorms but those don't really water the garden & they've been so heavy they're more likely to break plants than help them grow but the garden is doing well, we even have some tomato, pea & 1 cucumber flower on some of the plants.
Back to work tommorow for 20 hours in 2 days, Maybe more, they're trying to decide if they're going to 'require' me to do the 4 hours overtime in spite of my missing Sunday.
Then in here to mess with my stupid Coca cola points, hey I'm drinking it like it's going out of style I might as well collect the points, they're there anyway! Write in here & since I spent Monday evening Loading more songs from cds onto my hard drive- Naming the songs because even when I cause the media player to go search for the cd info (& I only remember on like, 1 in 3 to do so) something about my media player stops it from loading that information!
After a shower we're supposed to play Clue.
All in all a really good 'weekend' for the kids & I. the sort I strive for.