Thankful Thursday

Especially the way everything's been going recently, I have to remember to be thankful.  I feel like I can barely get up, before I'm knocked down again.  But, there are so many good things in my life, that I have to be thankful.

*My family and friends.  I love them, and know that I can count on them for anything.
*My health.  I know that I'm definitely blessed with that.
*I have a roof over my head and food in my belly.  Even though it's not where I want to live, I'd rather live here than in my car!
*The ability to read- so many don't have that ability, and  reading is my escape!

Finally Friday!

It's been a rough week, I've worked every day, and if I can just get through tomorrow morning, I will actually have Sunday off!  Whoo!!  I am thrilled, even though I still have to work my other job on Sunday.  At least I'm not in retail!  I'm excited!  And then next week, I don't have nearly as many hours, so I can just relax and just deal with my other stuff that needs to get done!

I really need to get crocheting and crafting for the 2 craft fairs that I've signed up to participate in.  I just want them to go well, and just get stuff sold, and a following!  That's all I want, is that too much to ask??

At least everything is fixed now....

The entire matter has now been resolved.  Thank Heavens!  There was a massive mis-communication between myself and the president of Luke's school's PTO.  Thankfully, it's been resolved, and I'm all good now. 

Let me back up a bit.  I've been volunteered to be the head of the book fair, and was told to change the spring book fair.  I changed it, but not before someone else did, and no one caught it until recently. I spent over an hour on the phone with people today, just to get it all straightened up, even though it wasn't my fault.  At one point, I offered to step down.  That wasn't met really well, but at the same time, I viewed the whole thing as being micromanaged, and I am so not cool with that.  I'm an adult, and I can do things on my own.  However, you need to communicate with me, not just go behind my back. 

I've joined Pintrest.  It seems pretty interesting, and basically what I've been thinking about doing anyway- making a dream board.  What I want my house to look like, what I want the rooms to look like, where I want to visit, etc.  We shall see how it turns out.  :)

Cooking with Frugal Girl

Let's just be frank here, I love cooking.  In my dream world, I have a huge farmer's kitchen, with tons of cabinets and counter space, where I bake bread daily or every other day, and I create wonderful home cooked meals daily for my family.  In reality, my kitchen is....not quite that nice, although, I try and compensate for it, by having pantries in addition to my meager counter space.  And in terms of cooking, I do the best I can, I bake bread almost every few days, and have struggled with, and have mostly succeeded with cooking 6 days out of 7, and going out only 1 time a week.  I've told my husband that if I had a bigger/better kitchen I'd cook more!  And enjoy it!  :) 

I collect cookbooks, and am a semi professional cook (I get paid for it, but I don't do it daily).  So I can look at recipes, and kind of change things around so that the recipes are good for me and my family.  And I'm also on Weight Watchers, so that is another thing that I am constantly tweaking in recipes- the nutritional content.  And I enjoy doing that.  I enjoy making things healthier and better for us. 

I don't know that I'll ever post some of my recipes here, just because it seems almost pretentious, but I might.  If I'm feeling....well.... pretentious!  

Tired... so very very tired....

I was at work this morning, and I agreed to stay later, a little.  I didn't want to stay a whole long time, and I think I pissed off the guy I was supposed to be helping.  Oh well, tough crap, I was totally not even supposed to be there anyway, so screw it.  I've been there almost a year, so it's not like they're going to fire me after the Holidays.  Ya know?  All I know is if they ask me to stay tomorrow, it's not happening!!  Not. At. All. 

And part of it was that I had to take Luke to the doctor this afternoon.  We've pretty much decided that it's an allergy thing, so we need to start trying Zyrtec to see if that works.  If it doesn't, then we'll move onto something else.  But until then, we'll just go with OTC meds.  

But beyond that, I did get exercise in, I did 3 miles to Leslie Sansone.  Whom I hate more than life itself some days, but I plugged in my Brantley Gilbert and walked to him instead of her. 

Good Bye Comcast!!

I just placed an order for AT&T U-verse.  We are getting rid of Comcast- prices keep rising, and the service just keeps getting worse.  Our modem crapped out, so we got a 'new' one, and the same problems are still occurring.  And while I could give them another chance, I'm not going to, because we've been contemplating the switch for a while, and we're just tired of Comcast in general.  We are getting installed on Oct. 19th, which given how much they're advertising, they should have tons of openings!!  Oh well, there's an end in sight for Comcast. Which is totally the most important thing!