The Sewing Mom

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.

After the Dust Settles

Work at Home Mom Revolution

Health Nut Wannabee Mom

Designing Hilary

and, finally, not only because she is my sister and I love her, but I do love her blog too,

Winding Threads

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.