just a (transplanted) city girl

>When I looked in the train window and saw only a few people I knew we had a hot car, when I stood at the door and felt the heat blasting me, I wondered if they were blasting heat into the car. I found a seat next to a normal looking guy, but I think that was the only normal thing about him.

Later when I heard the sad news about someone’s pregnancy, my mind went back in time 27 years when my mother took my sister-in-law to the hospital and I was not allowed to go, after all I was only 18. To a friend who stated that was why she didn’t want to get pregnant, a friend who subsequently went on fertility meds to get pregnant and now has four children.

Now I am done.

>Been a good week for me, I have not wanted to get up every morning.

Last night when I got home, one of the kids had gotten ice pop on the floor in front of the freezer, on the floor in my bathroom and all over my sink, they denied it of course. They have also been leaving the basement door unlocked. I told Tigger I want it locked, I don’t trust their friends as much as they do, ok, I don’t trust their friends at all. Now I have to get my lunch, it is another hot, brutal day, I hope I don’t melt.

Tigger sent me a text they were going swimming and I asked him to make sure the basement door is locked. He replied, Already Gone. Sigh, he does not seem to grasp the need of locking up. However, when I got home, the door was locked.

The crocs came today, M loves hers, I think Gwen does too but I am not sure, I like mine. I left work early and went to the Crocs store to get some more Jibbits for Ms crocs. It would take me a lot less time to get there if I could remember where the stupid place is, this time I turned the wrong way on Columbus!

For those of you who are reading this and wondering why I am using this personal thoughts blog to talk about the weather and the kids and my shoes, I made a commitment to post every day. So far I have kept it. If I have to come on here and post I got up I went to work I came home, well that is what I will do to keep this commitment to myself. I know from experience that the more I write the better it gets. The problem is, I usually come up with these things when I can’t write or send an e-mail here or type here. I have to work on remembering what I think, then I will have a more interesting blog.

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>Made it to the meeting on time, just me M and Gwen went. D is at regional this weekend. On the way home I got a text that I have sold another book, in a minute I will have to tape it up to take tomorrow.

Yesterday I was sort of cleaning my closet and found a bunch of clothes, that I threw away and my old black leather briefcase, I asked Dawn if that would be acceptable in Donated and she said yes. So I cleaned it out and will take it Wednesday. I did not get out in service this weekend. I will try again next weekend.

After I got home from Target, where I went to get the envelope, M wanted to go for a walk, so we walked to the park. That is a mile, even though we didn’t walk fast, at least we were moving our buns. We went to Ron’s when we go to the park, I just got water, and M guessed that I had already gone that day!

On the way back, she said I have a question about the sign for that school, she was talking about the slogan for the Christian School, it says, “Educating one mind at a time”. She said, what about the rest of the class? She always has something thought-provoking to say about these things.

Well, I won’t be able to mail the book until Tuesday, I ran out of tape. It is O.K. I have until Tuesday to mail it. I really don’t want to use the tape at work, not for a book I sold. I look at my rating and I have 5 stars. One person rated me at 5 stars and said “Great!” in the comments.

Well, enough chatting for today. I have to work tomorrow. I will see you then.

>Ugh, lost my post. Let’s try again.

It felt like it took forever to get to Saturday this week, and that was even with a day off! Book study this morning, now doing laundry, sort of, I put a load in and hung part of it up, but there are clothes in the dryer I need to take up so I can put mine in the dryer. Then I need to leave while its on. I also have to go to Bass to return the shorts that I bought, they are too small. I don’t know if I will get another pair or not. I will write to you later. Or sooner if this post gets lost also.

I returned the shorts to Bass. Then I went to Kohl’s. I know Levi’s or Lee’s will fit me in a size 6. I also saw those purple exercise shorts were less than $10, and since I said I would buy them if they got that cheap, I had to buy them. Then Tigger wanted to show me a Verizon phone that he thinks I should get, so we went to the Verizon store. I sent him a text from the phone, and he saved the number, he says he is going to send random texts to it. I should have sent the text to my phone, oh well. Next time. I told Tigger he is seriously demented. So I saw the phone I want to get next, but it is expensive. Maybe by January it will be reasonable.

>Because it is the 4th of July. D is working on his new shed and M and the kids are helping him. I haven’t decided yet what to do. I want to go to VanHeusen to get some shorts that fit, but I don’t know if they are open and I don’t know what else M has in mind for today.

After I check on the thread and check my e-mail I will see what else is going on today. I may be back.

Right now I am just sitting on my bed listening to the fireworks. They are loud, I have no idea where they are. Last night I took some Tylenol® PM and I slept really well. I think I will take some again tonight. For some reason taking Tylenol® during the day does nothing for the pain in my shoulder, but the Tylenol® PM at night really helps.

Today Gwen and I went to VanHeusen, but I couldn’t find any shorts I liked, so I went to Bass. They had some nice shorts, they were on sale for $17, which I thought was a lot for shorts, but considering they are Bass, I figured I would go ahead and get them. Well, with M’s card they were less than $9. After I try them on to make sure they fit, I might go get another pair. At Vanheusen, I got a skirt and top. Paid more than I thought they would be, the signs had me confused.

The rest of today I was watching NCIS marathon on TV. Well, I really must go now.

>I already had my lunch, I am hoping we get to leave early. We didn’t get to for Memorial Day so who knows. I sat in the park to eat my sandwich and watched the people walking by, it was very interesting. I am very tired today, I really need to get some sleep tonight. I think I might need to take something.

I couldn’t send this from my phone, I had to type it on the computer. I really don’t like doing that. That has happened a few time. I am going to do only short posts from now on, and just combine them when I get home.

Still Here

Kind of like still crazy, looks like no more leaving 2 hours early before a holiday. Well it was never official or a sure thing, it was just a nice thing that happened. I am sending this from gmail since hotmail is having problems

Tigger lied to me, he said he was going to be talking to me all day and I have like 10 text messages from him.

>There is something I wanted to post here, some thought that flashed into my head that was profound but obviously not memorable because it is gone now. That is why I carry a notebook so I can capture these thoughts. I don’t even remember where I was when I thought it, maybe walking up from the train, that would explain why I didn’t write it down.

Now that it is gone, I have to come up with something else profound to post here but I can’t, so today will be another boring entry. Like my bras arrived yesterday and I am wearing one and so far it is comfortable. Or I finished Tell No One and started The Tea Rose and I posted a review on Shelfari so if you want to know what I thought of Tell No One go to the link at the bottom of this page and click on it. One more thing, Capt Ron was at the concert Sunday.

Yes really! I didn’t see him but he saw me. He paid for seats though so he didn’t get caught in the rain. Except he referred to it as the Doobie Brothers Concert. He doesn’t seem to be the Chicago type.

Tigger didn’t text me at all yesterday. Today he did, but only to ask if he could use my laptop to get some songs. I put all my Chicago CDs on here, and two new albums I bought from Amazon and told him about the CDs being on here. So that is why he wanted to use my laptop. Then he sent me another text, to ask for Reisen.

There are loud children outside, they sound like they are on our deck but they may just be incredibly loud. I think I will go upstairs and check it out. But I don’t know what I will do if they are they, am I mean enough to scare them? Well, I think I need to find out. Be back in a few.

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