A weekend of ?????

Well Memorial Day Weekend is over, now ask me what I did? I don't have a clue! I didn't do anything really special but the weekend just got away from me. I can say the all the Laundry is done, I can say the upstairs floors and bathrooms are done and this is thanks to Cassandra who took charge of the upstairs while I was nursing a headache on Saturday for a couple of hours. I can also say that I did my food shopping but after all that what did I do? I did get obsessed watching that stupid show, "Jon & Katie plus 8" marathon. It was on all weekend leading up to the season 5 premier which was so depressing it stunk! I had never seen this show before and apparently it's been on for 5 years. I did enjoy some of the earlier episodes but honestly their was nothing else on and when I pull out my puzzles I don't really "Watch" because I am concentrating on the puzzle. Long story short, I think the show needs to go way because it's not a family show anymore, it's not about the kids anymore. It should now be called "Jon and Kate Show" because it's all about these 2 selfish parents who have become all "Hollywood" leaving their 8 plus children behind. So honestly that took up alot of my weekend.

I did pop in the occasional movie, Bride wars, and I saw "Love comes Softly" again (My 3rd time I think) but honestly their is nothing on anymore so I know getting back into my reading "Mode" is going to be very easy I think. I have not read a good book in awhile so I am looking forward to spending most of the summer reading the "Love comes softly" series that my friend Joyce is giving me. It's a christian series set back in the 1800's, western style and I have seen all the movies so now it's time to read the book. Most people like to read the book first, not me I like to see the movie and then read the book to discover all the differences between the 2.

I also had a visitor, Paola on Sunday evening through Monday evening . She is going through alot of personal problems so I am there for her when she needs me and she has been very down so I had her come over to get her mind off of things and Ayden will always help you with that. She told Ayden she was having a baby and all he did for the rest of the weekend was stare at her belly, it was so funny. Of course there were a million questions but then again that is nothing new these days.

So, again my weekend went very fast. I had 4 days off (Yes, even Friday) and nothing to show for it! But I like that kind of weekend...sometimes.

What to do to fill your time...................

It's really hard sometimes to "Pass the time" when you have no money. In these economic days its really hard to go out and do things you loved to do. Like the movies, it not only costs almost $10.00 ore more to get in you have to also pay for Popcorn and a drink could also cost you $10.00 or more and that is buying the small portions. So going to the movies theses days can be more stress then it's worth. If you just want to go out and have coffee with a Friend just to pass the time and talk you need to have a wallet full as well. The most popular place around would be Starbucks (Because Dunkin Donuts is not what it was since Starbucks came along) But if you go to Starbucks once again your wallet needs to have the $$$ in it. A Grande Vanilla Latte Medium cost $ 4.25 these days and they will always try and talk you into a "Venti/Large" size bigger which is only $.50 cents more.... . so every where you go it cost you not only money but alot of it compared to a couple of years ago!

What you need to do is find things that either don't cost alot or don't cost anything at all (which is very hard). I love to do scrap books but it can be costly. You need to go to the scrapbook stores and go over to the Clearance tables and they always have alot and also good deals. Scrap booking can be fun and memorable depending on what your doing.

Another Idea is what I am doing now, each night I am working on my puzzles. I use to do puzzles a long time ago with my mother. She use to put out big ones on our dinner room table and work for days on it. After awhile they were getting so big we would all end up eating in the living room with trays (but we still always ate together every single night) My mom would do 1,000 piece to 1,500 piece puzzles. I am just starting on my first 500 piece puzzle. I have done at least Five Hundred Piece puzzles and 2 of the 300 piece puzzles.. It is very time consuming but I love doing them. I really get a sense of "Look what I have done" or when it's a lot of pieces I can say "Look what I got done" it's a really good way to pass those moneyless time periods in your life.

Another way came up to me by chance while I was playing with my Grandson. Coloring! I love doing, in fact I am obsessed with it now. I finished some color book pictures that Ayden had around the house and then during my weekly food shopping trip I picked up a couple of color books for $1.00. So, as you can see not expensive, fun and time passes before you know it.

So these are just a few of "My" ways of passing the time and keeping myself busy. It has been fun finding out all these neat things to do but if you look at them they are things I did as a kid and just never realized how much fun they were to do...and how much money I am saving also.

It's about Time......

Well it's been awhile since I wrote something, and I thought I should really "Catch Up" Since I last wrote you my daughter Cassandra graduated from Massage Therapy School (Its a college that I can never remember the name of ) and needless to say I am very very proud of her, it's been a long two years and she did and I was happy to help her fulfill her goal.

I am still working for HCA East FL Division in the Education Department and since I last wrote about this job things have been going pretty well (Knock on Wood) and there have not been any major problems and Charlene has been pretty nice all and all. Charlene does have a good side to her for instance it was told to me on the Thursday before an orientation date that the following Monday Hospital Orientation would be held in the Department I am working in which made feel sick to my stomach....I mean how would you feel watching and hearing two people doing something you had been doing for over 14 years? and one of those people who can not stand me doing what I did. Anyone who really knows me knows how hurt I would be to see that , I loved my job very much and only a select few undertsand that....Well I guess my face changed with out saying a word and Charlene came to me later and said "Karen Work from home Monday" I was floored!! I asked her why and she said "We both know why" and that is all that was said on the subject except for me thanking her for being so concerned about my feelings, I was kind of in shock this came from Charlene but it goes to show you that you really never know a person, they'll always surprise you especially when you least expect it...In fact she has been on Vacation since Last Wednesday and is not due back until tomorrow. While she is out she left me some work to do and I was in contact with her daily via email. Almost every day Charlene would say "Go home Early" and 9 times out of ten I would because Charlene was still giving me the 8 hours of work which I am very appreciative of. I didn't take advantage either I did my work and then went home. Friday was the best because I knew I had a busy Saturday coming up so getting out at Noon that day was Great. I had Lunch with my friends Linda and Joyce, did some shopping, went home and started laundry, etc. Saturday was a busy day because Cassandra and Lance had a trip with Lance's company to go on a all day trip to the Bahama's in which they left at 4:30am and did get back until 1:00am so as you can see I had a very long day with a 3 year old. I am proud to say with "Both" Got thru the day very well. I was also able t0 do my cleaning, laundry, and everything else I like to do on Saturday's just with a little more Patience's then usual. Ayden had his moments but we got thru them. The best thing I did was go to the store with him and let him pick out the movie "Madagascar" in which he watched over and over again so that was a really big help. Then on Sunday we hung around, did food shopping and went to a Garcia barbecue for Rosealba who I believe was 87 years of age, God Bless her (Her husband is also alive and well at 92 years of age).