I have been watching Hoarder's Buried Alive. I am just amazed with the amount of stuff people can collect and see what people can acutally live with. However I know this can happen as my Grandma Seams was what you would call a hoarder. I just remember that in their home there was a distinct smell that greeted you as you went up the wooden plank towards the screen door. When you walked into the kitchen you would have half of a table that was clear and part of the sink also. Then you could get through and the living room was moveable. I do however remember that the bedroom was one small spot to be able to walk into and out of and then I was never allowed upstairs ever. I can remember the month that Eloise came back and cleaned everything up and wow what a transformation and then it all went back to the same thing again. I watch this show with disgust and sadness. I also know the smell that can be overwhelming one. The smell of hot trash in my garage leftover when we forgot to put it out before vacation a few years back brought my Grandma Seams house memory washing back. It was such a sad realization.
I will say whenever I have the case of the lazies I watch an eposide and then I clean that closet that looks a tad cluttered. I am such a tosser that I dont think that it will ever be an issue for me.
I have a photo shoot today so I am getting ready to head in here in short time so better get off here and finish cleaning that last pile.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
back to work
Well I am finally back to some semblence of work. It feels good to be bringing in a paycheck after I broke my wrist and then the time before when I didnt get much work. Now with Sorenson a steady paycheck will be a nice change.
I bought some strawberries but since it so extremely warm I will do this in the morning when the temp. is much cooler. I am afraid they would wilt in this hot temp. I am hoping the guy I called to plow will come soon. I am so getting in the gardening mood.
Grande Finale was last night and the choir did well and so did my photography students they did so well. Well I had better get off got to bid my June work.
I bought some strawberries but since it so extremely warm I will do this in the morning when the temp. is much cooler. I am afraid they would wilt in this hot temp. I am hoping the guy I called to plow will come soon. I am so getting in the gardening mood.
Grande Finale was last night and the choir did well and so did my photography students they did so well. Well I had better get off got to bid my June work.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
nervous and scared
Well today is my first shift on my own down at Sorenson I am scared to death, praying everything will go alright. MDK had a good prom and has had a nice time with her friend visiting from Florida. MLK finished her math last night, Hallajueah!!!! Just two more weeks or so and they are done. We had a nice fire in the fire pit, and then it started raining and then the smoke chased different people at random and we had to keep moving, it quite sprinkling but then we all smelled like ash and smoke. We did manage to get hot dogs and smores made. We sure do enjoy that, we had to get out the tiki torches cause the bugs were thick already!
Have another busy week but hopefully that will help the bank account. Well better go!
Have another busy week but hopefully that will help the bank account. Well better go!
Thursday, April 19, 2012
ugh allergies
Allergies have been stirred up ever since we had that high wind over the weekend, I really havent had much issues with it for a long time, but I guess it just really high this year. Today is my last day of training, and they set me loose, a little nervous to do this on my own but I will get the hang of it before too long. I talked to someone that works more or less the second shift and that really helps because it is a little more relaxed.
Working on pictures for the homeschool group got get them ordered. Well better go and get around.
Working on pictures for the homeschool group got get them ordered. Well better go and get around.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
I always enjoy a good documentary
One of the strange things about me is that sometimes I would perfer watching a documentary to a movie. I know this is a rather odd habit for most people, but I think it goes back to my insasible appetite to keep on learning. I will sometimes get up alot early than everyone else at the house and keeping the house quiet I will watch a short documentary on the laptop on pbs.com or some other website. I just enjoy knowing the when where and how of everyday things.
MDK got home from her chess trip and had a good time of it. Both girls are having a wild mess of work from college professors, seems all teachers have the oh crap the semster almost done lets pile it on! Just about two to three weeks till we are done than MDK has a little left for me. Well better get around for today.
MDK got home from her chess trip and had a good time of it. Both girls are having a wild mess of work from college professors, seems all teachers have the oh crap the semster almost done lets pile it on! Just about two to three weeks till we are done than MDK has a little left for me. Well better get around for today.
Friday, April 13, 2012
my new job
Well I have one more day of training next week and I will be off and running on what I am doing at Sorenson. I think I will enjoy the job however I know at times it will be stressful. When you work there you get calls that you interpret from all over and all types of people so the variety will be nice. Today I got a fill in job for another interpreter whose kid is sick.
We might be going to Oscela tommorow to visit Gma Kaster so Denise can get a picture with Gma and Alana. We will wait and see how Denise and Alana are doing. MDK should be in Minn now, hope her chess tourney goes well for her. When I talked to her she sounded like she was having fun. Well better go!
We might be going to Oscela tommorow to visit Gma Kaster so Denise can get a picture with Gma and Alana. We will wait and see how Denise and Alana are doing. MDK should be in Minn now, hope her chess tourney goes well for her. When I talked to her she sounded like she was having fun. Well better go!
Monday, April 9, 2012
Easter Weekend
What a nice weekend, spent with our friend Steve and going to go and hold the new baby. Brought lilacs in the house and it smells wonderful. I showed Steve how to make apple pie and we had grilled meat and mashed pot. for lunch. I just got up from a nap. I took some pictures of the family and am posting them to fb. I may switch some out on the blog site if the computer will behave.
Easter, the day that Christ showed how rentlessly he loved us! He not only died and arose but He pursues a relationship with me. It is a marvel, it truely is!
I am more or less starting back towards the career phase of my life, I had a short decade of focusing on homeschooling and now I am heading back into the professional realm, did I ever quit working no, but was it high on the proirity list for me, no it was a means to an end. MDK has just a few subjects left to do and we will continue to do dual credit on campus, but I am rearranging life for myself with this new job and the current freelancing I do. I am seeing that stage of life where you dont have to worry about two other schedules besides your own. MLK got on full time on campus for the summer and may have the oppurtunity to live in the dorms over the summer for free, which I think would be a great experience, she will proably come back home in the fall because she doesnt want to spend all the money on room and board when it is free here at home. MDK is really busy in the month of April with Prom and Chess Nationals. I am doing less and less for them which is how it should be and they are doing quite well for themselves. Well better get off here and go get the lawn mowed.
Easter, the day that Christ showed how rentlessly he loved us! He not only died and arose but He pursues a relationship with me. It is a marvel, it truely is!
I am more or less starting back towards the career phase of my life, I had a short decade of focusing on homeschooling and now I am heading back into the professional realm, did I ever quit working no, but was it high on the proirity list for me, no it was a means to an end. MDK has just a few subjects left to do and we will continue to do dual credit on campus, but I am rearranging life for myself with this new job and the current freelancing I do. I am seeing that stage of life where you dont have to worry about two other schedules besides your own. MLK got on full time on campus for the summer and may have the oppurtunity to live in the dorms over the summer for free, which I think would be a great experience, she will proably come back home in the fall because she doesnt want to spend all the money on room and board when it is free here at home. MDK is really busy in the month of April with Prom and Chess Nationals. I am doing less and less for them which is how it should be and they are doing quite well for themselves. Well better get off here and go get the lawn mowed.
Friday, April 6, 2012
have not been sleeping well
I have had a series of not sleeping well, ugh it is so not fun, it just wears me completly out and it is just plain not good for my body. I took a tylenol pm and still only slept till 5:30. My job training is getting pretty intense, trying to get all the technical end of it together. I am glad however for the oppurtunity. MDK b-day party fell through due all the girls having family things, so she got to hang out with P. last night and then she will be going to a friends house tonight. Well better go for now.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
remembering
I was able to go to the hospital last night and sit for awhile and hold Alana. She was being quite fussy but if I held her and patted her butt she seemed to be quiet. I hope I was of a help and not a hinderance because Denise was feeling very overwhelmed and hormonal yesterday. Just like I did with my sister I told her that it is okay to feel all the many feelings you truely have when your baby arrives on the scence. You are suppose to have this whole beautiful dreamland thing and that just doesnt happen most of the time.
When Missy was born, my body was physically tramuatized, she came out of the ordeal quite well, but I did not however. I was so overwhelmed, I knew in my gut I loved her, but the other emotions where so overwhelming and I felt emberassed to admit I even had them. I remember wondering what in the heck have I gotten myself into and how will I ever do all this. Then I had those feelings of look what I am giving up and then I got into postpartum depression with the wild random thoughts, and the outburst of tears and the pain after surgery. It was not the fantasy I had for bringing a baby home. I remember when Brenda brought MJ home and how she was so very glad when I said, it isnt as honkey dory as everyone makes it out to be is it? She just cried and said oh thank you for saying that, I thought I was the only one, everyone says I should be so happy and I am just overwhelmed and so many different emotions all at once. When I brought Meg home it was alot easier as I had realistic expectations. It was good I had Missy first as she was an easy baby.
Enjoyed my new job it is feeling like I am getting back to a life I had years ago, where I just dont have to worry about every little thing. I take care of stuff but I so let them take care of things now. I try hard to make sure Meg is still on track because that is age approipate, but she is a very independent soul so I also try to respect that. She is such a go getter. Missy has come such a long way in the last year. Up untill a year and a half ago, Missy just wasnt well enough emotional to really do the growing up she should have done all along. She has done such hard work within the last four years that I know she is laying such an awesome foundation to be able to deal with her bipolar throughout her life. She really does take care of it, she makes and takes care of all doctor and counselor appointments and then she also has started picking up her own meds. She is faithful to take them. I know of adults that have bipolar, in fact one such case we called her husband when MLK ran out of a scribe over the weekend and she was going on a three day trip starting Monday and said do you have any Topmax? He was accompaining the group on the trip so he called back and said yeah and when and how much do I give her everyday? I was blown away, I said you give her the meds and she takes care of it. I think he was blown away because he is responsible for his wife's meds making sure his wife takes them. I am so glad that Missy is so very mature with that and her doctor is always braggin on her on how proactive she is about her health. She is really taking control of her education and such also. I try to help out with the grant paperwork and stuff like that but she really does the majority of it, like she should. Meg and I are waiting till her college classes are done and then spent the rest of May finishing off her schoolwork. The sociology class has been a burger for both girls. Meg is such a go getter with her I usually have to teach her how to balance things, and to set up realistic expectations of herself. She is doing so well in her job and is so mature to get her studies for college done. I am so impressed with how well she is doing in English 100. Well all for now more later.
When Missy was born, my body was physically tramuatized, she came out of the ordeal quite well, but I did not however. I was so overwhelmed, I knew in my gut I loved her, but the other emotions where so overwhelming and I felt emberassed to admit I even had them. I remember wondering what in the heck have I gotten myself into and how will I ever do all this. Then I had those feelings of look what I am giving up and then I got into postpartum depression with the wild random thoughts, and the outburst of tears and the pain after surgery. It was not the fantasy I had for bringing a baby home. I remember when Brenda brought MJ home and how she was so very glad when I said, it isnt as honkey dory as everyone makes it out to be is it? She just cried and said oh thank you for saying that, I thought I was the only one, everyone says I should be so happy and I am just overwhelmed and so many different emotions all at once. When I brought Meg home it was alot easier as I had realistic expectations. It was good I had Missy first as she was an easy baby.
Enjoyed my new job it is feeling like I am getting back to a life I had years ago, where I just dont have to worry about every little thing. I take care of stuff but I so let them take care of things now. I try hard to make sure Meg is still on track because that is age approipate, but she is a very independent soul so I also try to respect that. She is such a go getter. Missy has come such a long way in the last year. Up untill a year and a half ago, Missy just wasnt well enough emotional to really do the growing up she should have done all along. She has done such hard work within the last four years that I know she is laying such an awesome foundation to be able to deal with her bipolar throughout her life. She really does take care of it, she makes and takes care of all doctor and counselor appointments and then she also has started picking up her own meds. She is faithful to take them. I know of adults that have bipolar, in fact one such case we called her husband when MLK ran out of a scribe over the weekend and she was going on a three day trip starting Monday and said do you have any Topmax? He was accompaining the group on the trip so he called back and said yeah and when and how much do I give her everyday? I was blown away, I said you give her the meds and she takes care of it. I think he was blown away because he is responsible for his wife's meds making sure his wife takes them. I am so glad that Missy is so very mature with that and her doctor is always braggin on her on how proactive she is about her health. She is really taking control of her education and such also. I try to help out with the grant paperwork and stuff like that but she really does the majority of it, like she should. Meg and I are waiting till her college classes are done and then spent the rest of May finishing off her schoolwork. The sociology class has been a burger for both girls. Meg is such a go getter with her I usually have to teach her how to balance things, and to set up realistic expectations of herself. She is doing so well in her job and is so mature to get her studies for college done. I am so impressed with how well she is doing in English 100. Well all for now more later.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
she has arrived
Alana is here! She arrived at 10 last night. Denise and Kevin where just overwhelmed and so happy. Denise had just said hours early I know I am pregnant and I know I am in labor but I just haven't wrapped my brain around the fact that I am having a baby. She had convienced herself for so many years that she wouldnt be a Mom that she was blown away by it. Alana is here safe and sound and doing well.
Today I start a new job and quess what I am worried about, the traffic I hate driving in traffic but I will do it and I will get use to it. Exicitied and scared about the job. Well better go and get around.
Today I start a new job and quess what I am worried about, the traffic I hate driving in traffic but I will do it and I will get use to it. Exicitied and scared about the job. Well better go and get around.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
today is the day
Today is the day, the last time I become an aunt. Denise is in the hospital and her doctor says she will become a mother today. She has preencylmpsia so she will have a baby one way or another. It seems kinda surreal that this will be the last baby. We are all getting to old to have more and that in a few more years down the road it will be my children that will be having babies. Wow time does fly doesnt it. MJ is ten, and she seems like she should be about four and then their are my girls that really should be like 10 and 8 not 19 and 17.
Very nervous about starting my new job tommorow, hope it all goes well. Will post more later after the baby arrives.
Very nervous about starting my new job tommorow, hope it all goes well. Will post more later after the baby arrives.
Monday, April 2, 2012
its been a few days
Well I havent blogged in a few days, been loafing around and not had much energy had enjoyed a very long stretch of sleeping well and bam here I am back to waking up at oddball hours, it just drains me completly and then I just dont get stuff done like I should.
Had some major flooding and was concerned that we might lose our driveway and have water in our garage we lacked 12 inches of that happening, but lucky by the next day it was back inside its banks.
The tomatoes are up and some of my other plants, the strawberries are blooming and the lilacs have came out. Spring has sprung a month early. I am trying to refrain from planting as it is still a little risky but I am thinking May 1st for sure! Today I just got a job, tommorow Denise will have the baby (doctor says so) and Wed. I start my new job, wow things will change around here fast. I am so exicited about all these things and scared a little about a new job.
We cleaned out alot of stuff in the garage yesterday and mowed the lawn over the weekend. The house I am going to try to get to today. Well better start getting around.
Had some major flooding and was concerned that we might lose our driveway and have water in our garage we lacked 12 inches of that happening, but lucky by the next day it was back inside its banks.
The tomatoes are up and some of my other plants, the strawberries are blooming and the lilacs have came out. Spring has sprung a month early. I am trying to refrain from planting as it is still a little risky but I am thinking May 1st for sure! Today I just got a job, tommorow Denise will have the baby (doctor says so) and Wed. I start my new job, wow things will change around here fast. I am so exicited about all these things and scared a little about a new job.
We cleaned out alot of stuff in the garage yesterday and mowed the lawn over the weekend. The house I am going to try to get to today. Well better start getting around.
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