7:40am
Getting old sucks. For the past
couple weeks like clockwork I've
been waking up between 1 & 3:00am.
And this is after going to bed around
11-12:00am, sometimes earlier.
My nap time has been irregular too.
I try to lay down but end up getting
back up. So who knows what is going on.
Maybe it's stress and my mind working
overtime.
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8:45-9:30am
I made a huge batch of
vegetable beef soup.
I cut up and divided the
large round steak then divided
it up between the soup in the crock pot,
soup container for the freezer and an extra
container to make stir fry with.
This vegetable beef soup has
all kinds of leftovers in it along with
things that needed used up from the pantry.
Freezers are packed full so time
use up some leftovers in there.
Ingredients-
beef round steak cubed, corn, peas,
potato soup, carrots, tomatoes,
onions, celery, garlic cloves, garlic powder,
steak sauce, green beans, hash browns,
cubed potatoes, mac & cheese shells,
barbecue seasoning salt, beef broth,
tomato soup and even some leftover homemade
chili dog sauce.
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I think this coming Saturday
we will be going to our first
garage sale of the season.
Woo Hoo!
It's actually a church sale which
is my favorite. They had it posted
on their sign out front.
So if anyone is interested
it's on Francisco off Kenny Rd
near Godown Rd.
Time is 8am-12pm Saturday April 2nd.
My hubby has the on call pager this week
which sucks and is a stressful time
for all of us. At least this sale
is just around the corner from his work
should he get paged out.
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10:00-10:40am
Removed the curtains from the
bay window. Started painting around
all the windows and sill.
Hands started going numb
so had to take a break from it.
Don't know if I'll get this wall
painted today, just the trim.
Trying to do the window during the
day time hours because I don't want
to remove curtains at night and
have everyone gawking in.
Plus tonight I think I'm taking
Tony to Urgent Care. He's been
having severe side/back pains
since last Thursday/Friday. I don't
know if he's pulled something
or it's something else.
If you enlarge the window picture
you can see our 90 year old neighbor
and her son working on their yard
that was dug up recently to repair
a pipe. The company that came out
to replace the pipes
left the yard a big mess.
They used to have a nice yard.
The older lady has told me she doesn't
even want to open her curtains
because it just depresses her to see
her yard like that.
We'd help them out but don't think
neither of our backs are in that
good of shape to be hauling and
digging that much dirt and rocks.
That's another thing we still have to fix
is where they dug up a little section
of our yard also.
------------------------------------
Rumor has it that Kroger is
going to stop doubling or
tripling coupons by April 18th.
In this economy that will hurt many
people or force them to shop elsewhere!
Meijers and Giant Eagle still
doubles coupons but who knows
if they will also do away
with doubling coupons.
I don't understand why they are
doing this because I think only
about 8 percent of people actually
use coupons in stores. Maybe
they had an increase with the economy
the way it is. The price of food is
only going to go up along
side of the gas prices.
---------------------------------------
6:00pm
Took Tony over to Urgent Care.
They said he has a pulled muscle
and gave him vicaden? for the pain.
Says it pretty much has to heal on it's own
and didn't give him any other medication
for inflammation.
----------------------------
7:00pm
Getting flustered trying to hook up
the WOW converter boxes in order
to view our cable tv. All channels
above 52 are gone at the moment
without these boxes. We got one box
hooked up only to read on the screen
they are experiencing problems in our
area and it won't work at the moment. Grrr!
So ended up taking the box off.
I got 2 free converter boxes. Anything
we need after that we have to pay
$1.99 a month for.
I'm seriously thinking about
putting the 2 converter boxes
in the kids rooms and splurging
to get a LCD TV with digital converter
built in for our bedroom.
This way we wouldn't need
that stupid rental converter box
and wouldn't waste money
on renting one.
Instead that money could be put towards
a new tv that would eventually pay
for itself in 4-8 years (depending
upon size of tv) of what I would
have been paying for the converter box.
I did check out Wow's website to see
if I could use these digital tv converters
that I found in place of their converters
and it said no! But you can use
a newer tv with it already built in.
Now if I can only figure out how
to do away with the rental dvr and
find something else that would
record our shows on tv.
-------------------------------
9:00pm
I went ahead and finished painting
the bay window. Then I ended up
painting 95% of the front living
room wall this evening.
I feel better knowing I got
this much accomplished today.
Window trim done and walls before.
After.
Still need to hang the curtain
a little higher.
8:45-9:30am
I made a huge batch of
vegetable beef soup.
I cut up and divided the
large round steak then divided
it up between the soup in the crock pot,
soup container for the freezer and an extra
container to make stir fry with.
This vegetable beef soup has
all kinds of leftovers in it along with
things that needed used up from the pantry.
Freezers are packed full so time
use up some leftovers in there.
Ingredients-
beef round steak cubed, corn, peas,
potato soup, carrots, tomatoes,
onions, celery, garlic cloves, garlic powder,
steak sauce, green beans, hash browns,
cubed potatoes, mac & cheese shells,
barbecue seasoning salt, beef broth,
tomato soup and even some leftover homemade
chili dog sauce.
------------------------------------------
I think this coming Saturday
we will be going to our first
garage sale of the season.
Woo Hoo!
It's actually a church sale which
is my favorite. They had it posted
on their sign out front.
So if anyone is interested
it's on Francisco off Kenny Rd
near Godown Rd.
Time is 8am-12pm Saturday April 2nd.
My hubby has the on call pager this week
which sucks and is a stressful time
for all of us. At least this sale
is just around the corner from his work
should he get paged out.
--------------------------------------
10:00-10:40am
Removed the curtains from the
bay window. Started painting around
all the windows and sill.
Hands started going numb
so had to take a break from it.
painted today, just the trim.
Trying to do the window during the
day time hours because I don't want
to remove curtains at night and
have everyone gawking in.
Plus tonight I think I'm taking
Tony to Urgent Care. He's been
having severe side/back pains
since last Thursday/Friday. I don't
know if he's pulled something
or it's something else.
If you enlarge the window picture
you can see our 90 year old neighbor
and her son working on their yard
that was dug up recently to repair
a pipe. The company that came out
to replace the pipes
left the yard a big mess.
They used to have a nice yard.
The older lady has told me she doesn't
even want to open her curtains
because it just depresses her to see
her yard like that.
We'd help them out but don't think
neither of our backs are in that
good of shape to be hauling and
digging that much dirt and rocks.
That's another thing we still have to fix
is where they dug up a little section
of our yard also.
------------------------------------
Rumor has it that Kroger is
going to stop doubling or
tripling coupons by April 18th.
In this economy that will hurt many
people or force them to shop elsewhere!
Meijers and Giant Eagle still
doubles coupons but who knows
if they will also do away
with doubling coupons.
I don't understand why they are
doing this because I think only
about 8 percent of people actually
use coupons in stores. Maybe
they had an increase with the economy
the way it is. The price of food is
only going to go up along
side of the gas prices.
---------------------------------------
6:00pm
Took Tony over to Urgent Care.
They said he has a pulled muscle
and gave him vicaden? for the pain.
Says it pretty much has to heal on it's own
and didn't give him any other medication
for inflammation.
----------------------------
7:00pm
Getting flustered trying to hook up
the WOW converter boxes in order
to view our cable tv. All channels
above 52 are gone at the moment
without these boxes. We got one box
hooked up only to read on the screen
they are experiencing problems in our
area and it won't work at the moment. Grrr!
So ended up taking the box off.
I got 2 free converter boxes. Anything
we need after that we have to pay
$1.99 a month for.
I'm seriously thinking about
putting the 2 converter boxes
in the kids rooms and splurging
to get a LCD TV with digital converter
built in for our bedroom.
This way we wouldn't need
that stupid rental converter box
and wouldn't waste money
on renting one.
Instead that money could be put towards
a new tv that would eventually pay
for itself in 4-8 years (depending
upon size of tv) of what I would
have been paying for the converter box.
I did check out Wow's website to see
if I could use these digital tv converters
that I found in place of their converters
and it said no! But you can use
a newer tv with it already built in.
Now if I can only figure out how
to do away with the rental dvr and
find something else that would
record our shows on tv.
-------------------------------
9:00pm
I went ahead and finished painting
the bay window. Then I ended up
painting 95% of the front living
room wall this evening.
I feel better knowing I got
this much accomplished today.
Window trim done and walls before.
a little higher.
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