I received this in an email and since I can totally relate to this one, I found it rather funny. Thought I’d share.
Question:
How many women with MENOPAUSE does it take to change a light bulb?
Woman’s Answer:
One!
ONLY ONE!!!! And do you know WHY? Because no one else in this house knows HOW to change a light bulb! They don’t even know that the bulb is BURNED OUT!! They would sit in the dark for THREE DAYS before they figured it out.
And, once they figured it out, they wouldn’t be able to find the #&%!* light bulbs despite the fact that they’ve been in the SAME CABINET for the past 17 YEARS!
But if they did, by some miracle of God, actually find them, TWO DAYS LATER the chair they dragged to stand on to change the STUPID light bulb would STILL BE IN THE SAME SPOT!!!!!
AND UNDERNEATH IT WOULD BE THE WRAPPER THE FREAKING LIGHT BULBS CAME IN!!! BECAUSE NO ONE EVER PICKS UP OR CARRIES OUT THE GARBAGE!!!!
IT’S A WONDER WE HAVEN’T ALL SUFFOCATED FROM THE PILES OF GARBAGE THAT ARE A FOOT DEEP THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE HOUSE!!
IT WOULD TAKE AN ARMY TO CLEAN THIS PLACE! AND DON’T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON WHO CHANGES THE TOILET PAPER ROLL!!
I started my new job on Monday, and, so far am enjoying it. I think the toughest thing to get used to so far has been getting myself organized in the morning and then dealing with the traffic that is now my commute. Thankfully, by the time I leave the house at 8:30, most of the rush hour traffic is gone and the only problems I’ve run into so far have been a result of construction projects around the area.
I’ve all ready had to find a new route from my house to the highway due to a new shopping center that is being built nearby. The contractor is redoing the road that leads into the shopping center, adding turn lanes and such, so it creates quite a back up of traffic in that area. They’re also installing new utility poles and those run pretty much right along the roadside and so the crews and their construction trucks are all over the place.
I recently drove past a Bucket Truck Rental shop and most of their trucks were gone, out on the job no doubt. It’s no wonder with all of the construction going on around here! The bucket trucks are out doing the utility pole and line work while the winch trucks, cable trailers and tensioners are installing underground utilities and cables. Then you have the dump trucks and cement trucks who are installing new curbs, parking lots and roads. Our skyline is now filled with cranes lifting all those steal beams to build the shopping centers.
I’m sure the construction won’t be done before I’m done with training, so I’ll stick to my new alternate route. Once the construction is done though, I’m going to have some great places to shop AND I’ll have a paycheck that will allow me to do just that!
This is almost wordless, but not quite. I pieced together this twin size quilt top using The Hungry Caterpillar fabric based on the book from Eric Carle. I received the backing fabric in the mail yesterday and I believe that my mom has agreed to hand quilt this for me. When finished, it will be a gift to my granddaughter.
I can’t tell you how thrilled I was to get a note from Lora at Lora’s Journal letting me know that she had bestowed this lovely award on my blog. I was also nominated for this award by Chris at Lone Black Spider as well as Donna at The Domestic Life. I am so appreciative and speechless that not just one, but 3 fellow bloggers chose me and my blog!
Here is how this award works:
1. The winner can put the logo on his/her blog;
2. Link the person you received your award from;
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs;
4. Put links of those blogs on yours; and
5. Leave a message on the blogs that you’ve nominated.
Note: The rules are somewhat different at The Domestic Life, so if you are curious, click on over from the above link.
Now, I realize I’m supposed to nominate at least 7 other blogs for this award. The problem here is that most every blog I visit has all ready received this award, so, although I am not nominating 7, I do have a few that deserve this.
If you haven’t yet received this award and I failed to mention you, drop me a comment and I’d be happy to add you to my list! I have two slots still available!
I feel like a kid in school and it’s my first day. Tomorrow is my first day back to work after a year and a half of being at home. I’m a little nervous, but not too bad. I’m looking forward to the training, it will really tell me if this job is something I want to do or not. In the mean time, I’ve been working on setting up my home office. After my 7 weeks of training, I’ll be working from home. It’s going to work out well because I’ll be working at the desktop computer in the morning and by the time my daughter needs to use it in the afternoon for homework, I’ll be done.
Before my daughter went back to school a few weeks ago we did some clean up and upgrades on our desktop computer. The program I need will be provided by my new employer, but my daughter needed Microsoft Office 2007 to help her stay organized and be able to do the more challenging work advanced placement classes require. CostCaptain.com is a Microsoft authorized education reseller that sells 100% authentic Microsoft products at academic discounts to students and staff of schools and libraries. If you know anyone that could benefit from this software, you might want to consider giving them a Costcaptain.com gift certificate.
School is going along very well for her, so if I’m half as prepared for my new job as she was for school, everything is going to be just fine.
Well, as I posted yesterday, I had a lot to get done and even had a to-do list with great intentions. In the end though, I don’t feel like I accomplished too much. I did indeed make it to the post office and got the state inspection done on our van, with a car wash thrown in as a bonus.
After that, the day sort of fell apart. I spent quite a bit of time driving around town going from quilt shop to quilt shop, only to not find the fabric I needed. I did manage to pick up a couple of specialty buttons I need for a Christmas project, but no fabric. After stopping for groceries, I came home and got lucky, I found the fabric I was looking for online at a shop located on an island in Puget Sound! I immediatley ordered it and it’s been shipped and I will hopefully have it in the next couple of days. I’ll show more of that once I have it.
In the end, I guess it would have been more productive, less time consuming and more cost efficient to have stayed home and done my shopping online!
I’m getting ready to head out the door to complete a long list of errands. I need to get things done today before I start my job on Monday. I’m used to being able to do things when I want, so I’m sure there will be an adjustment period of me getting used to my routine. Of course, once I get through the 7 weeks of training, I’ll be working from the house and so won’t have to contend with commute time!
Today’s to-do list:
Post Office
Get state inspection on van done
shop for phone and headset for home office (required for new job)
shop for backing fabric for the quilt top I finished yesterday
shop for bead and buttons for my 12 Days of Christmas quilt project
pick up some groceries
Of course, my favorite thing is shopping for fabric, and, I’m heading to a quilt shop I’ve never been to before, so I’m excited! I managed to save myself some time by shopping for unique beads online and even found some wholesale gemstone beads at up to 30% discount, that I can use on my 12 Days of Christmas project. I’ll be sure to share photos later.
It’s Friday! It’s also my last day before starting 7 weeks of training, so I have a lot to get done today. First though, I just have to do my absolute favorite meme, Four Foods on Friday.
Here are this weeks questions and my answers:
#1. Share a recipe for something Italian. Well, I consider it a staple of our diet and we eat it probably once a week, spaghetti. Although I do occasionally make my sauce from scratch, I typically brown hamburger with onion and then poor on a jar of Ragu. I have recently switched over to whole wheat noodles and I really like them. The noodles are firmer and more filling.
#2. Jam, jelly, preserves, marmalade, fruit butter or butter. What’s on your toast or bread? I don’t eat toast too often, but when I do, I like it with butter and either strawberry jam or jelly.
#3. What’s your favorite Kellogg’s product? (Since they’re multinational I’m hoping everyone can answer this one. If you don’t have Kellogg’s products, what’s your favorite cold breakfast cereal?) I like the Kellogg’s Special K with strawberries. I like both the cereal and the cereal bars.
#4. Do you like liver? What about liverwurst? I do like liver and onions, although, I haven’t cooked it myself in many years. I ate it recently at a restaurant and really enjoyed it. I’m not a fan of liverwurst though.
I received my first massage as a gift on my 40th birthday and it was heavenly. I can only imagine how good a massage would feel while you’re pregnant. With all of the changes your body goes through and the weight gain, a massage would be very welcome.
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It is official. I attended my job orientation yesterday and I will begin a 7 week training program on Monday. Before I do though, I want to send out a big THANK YOU to the blogger who helped me find this job.
I was dropping Entrecards and, as I do everyday, I visited a particular blog that is, according to her tagline, “A blog for moms who want to work from home”. I visit this particular blog almost every day and have always read her posts with great interest. A week and a half ago, as I was visiting this blog, I read a post that felt as if it were aimed directly at me. The job opportunity was a part time position with a major corporation, know world wide, that would allow me to work day time hours from home and the company would provide all the training, paid. The job also happened to be located right here in the Dallas area.
After thinking it over for a couple of days, I submitted my application online and received an email the very next day asking me to come in for testing and an interview. On Monday of this week, exactly one week after first reading about the position, I was hired.
I am spending today and tomorrow getting my home office set up to meet the job requirements, but I wanted to make sure to take the time to send a big thank you to Lisa at Work at Home Mom Revolution for the wonderful job she does with her blog. Without realizing it, she is touching lives and helping people find ways to do what they enjoy and do it at home. So, Lisa, I thank you!
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