I am not a dog person so I can certainly see why they call these "dog days"! Now I do like the warm weather but its not conducive to work. I do not have AC and I work in an airplane hanger. The occasional breeze does float thru and there is a fan but you can't turn it on yourself or all your papers go flying so what is the point? I did finish a couple of things today so I can feel somewhat accomplished. I hate it when I get nothing done. Last night I even wrote most of my grant concept paper that is due on Tuesday so I will stay and type that later and email it off. Get it out of my hair..one more paper and that class is done. The prof. wrote me an email the other day to point out I had spelled his name wrong in an email in which I sent an assignment.
Now I might add his name is Christos Gianopoulos. I got one letter wrong I added a u onto the o at the end. Gianopoulous. Well he pointed out that in "Grant writing" that would be a big no no.
So probably 10 points off that paper! Ugh.
Have to go down to the radio station and record something about the Scholarship concert. That should be interesting. I told the station guy to write it up what he wants..hopefully I don't sound foolish. I plan on going to rehearsal tonight to see if anything else needs to be done before Thursdays concert. Caroline and Matt are rehearsing tonight.
So lets see what else..oh yeah on Saturday when it was really foggy I cut out some curtains, valances from some Laura Ashley chintz that I have had for 2 years and intending to use and by Sunday I had them all done! Bought some sheers at Wally world (my favorite store, not) for 4.88 a piece and now I have designer windows. Bought the chintz at a yard sale so these windows cost me next to nothing. In the meantime I spotted some great fabric in Mardens that was a little higher than usual (price) but I took a sample home and then bought some today to cover the foot stool and pillows in living room..a great coral and yell0w plaid that will go with all the other furniture. Seems like I am always tweaking that house...I love fabric, so I cant help it and then its an old house so something always has to be done anyways.
Well stay cool everyone..have an ice tea in the shade for me. ARC girl
e martë, 31 korrik 2007
e shtunë, 28 korrik 2007
There ARE no red hot dogs on rte one!!
ok so I drive to Rockland to meet with Disaster Mental Health people like a good litttle Emergency services nurse! one word..Disaster! Keynote speaker..no show. Of coourse somehow I know he is not coming but head of meeting does not.. she is P_ssed. But first I arrive at ARC office and she is supposed to show up any minute to pick up her stuff. Never shows so I leave for meeting and when I pull into parking lot she tries to send me back to office I just left for HER stuff. Luckily Susan said she would bring at 11:00. Meeting is starting in ten minutes. I won't go into the gory details here. Also had to give "someone" in the bangor office my minute by minute location incase there was in imminent disaster that had to be dealt with as he was the only one in the office.
So left Rockland around 12 to head back to get Ty off to sailing camp out. Stopped at Market Basket to get half a sandwich and remembered exactly why I am no longer the proprietor of a gourmet food business in Maine in the summer. There were 100 people all wanting something on bread that was not made that day! Got back in the car and called Don to tell him that story and he said he was sitting on some gorgeous stone patio on Isleford..Little Cranberry Island, at a house they are going to redo (the company is going to redo..not him)..then he was "boating over to Isle au Haut and Stonington to check on other Hewes Co. projects..tough day. About that time I hit a wall of traffic. Route one last friday in July!
Now I still had not picked up the delicacys for the sailing overnight including the pop tarts and the red hot dogs. I kept driving and trying to call my kids to get them to do it. Unfortunatley they were behind schedule and Carolines phone was either off or out of range..so I did not get them in time to stop at store. So I decided my best bet was a small store along the way quick in and out instead of a grocery store that would require lines aisles and waiting...little did I know that no one would have hot dogs let alone red ones!! I tried Searsport Irving...now Maritime farms..nope..Then two stores in Bucksport all these places have the word "market" or grocery, on their sign and they have beer and chips. I finnally pulled off at the Orland Market and hit the
jackpot..guy says yeah we have hot dogs..how many...wow I can even buy singles...like this place. Are they red? No way...I don't sell what I don't eat...so I buy 3 regular color hot dogs and hope he can trade for them.
Get home throw stuff in car and fly to yacht club..a couple of parents look at me and say you look stressed about this trip or something..I say no I just got off Rte I. for the second day in a row..they took me sailing..in my skirt and sandals! I threw those off and just climbed in the boat. What the heck! It was a TownClass..always wanted to sail one of those...sort of like Herreshoff 12 1/2 They are an old class out of Marble head. Well I know I don't want one..too tippy, no keel just a centerboard and really a little finicky. But it definitely blew the road dust out of my head! WE watched the kids take off in three beetle cats for Hog Island for the night.
Woke up this morning and it was completely fogged in, thought they might all get towed back by the whalers they took out. But Ty said they all sailed back..He had one of the boats the whole way back and said it was a great sail. All of them no worse for the wear..traded a hot dog for a red one too! He also had a sausage in his bag. Guess they didn't sleep much but that is the fun of it all.
So I cut up some fabric for curtains today..I am sort of working on them..we"ll see.
By the way we did NOT have red hot dogs for dinner last night! Have a good weekend all. G.
So left Rockland around 12 to head back to get Ty off to sailing camp out. Stopped at Market Basket to get half a sandwich and remembered exactly why I am no longer the proprietor of a gourmet food business in Maine in the summer. There were 100 people all wanting something on bread that was not made that day! Got back in the car and called Don to tell him that story and he said he was sitting on some gorgeous stone patio on Isleford..Little Cranberry Island, at a house they are going to redo (the company is going to redo..not him)..then he was "boating over to Isle au Haut and Stonington to check on other Hewes Co. projects..tough day. About that time I hit a wall of traffic. Route one last friday in July!
Now I still had not picked up the delicacys for the sailing overnight including the pop tarts and the red hot dogs. I kept driving and trying to call my kids to get them to do it. Unfortunatley they were behind schedule and Carolines phone was either off or out of range..so I did not get them in time to stop at store. So I decided my best bet was a small store along the way quick in and out instead of a grocery store that would require lines aisles and waiting...little did I know that no one would have hot dogs let alone red ones!! I tried Searsport Irving...now Maritime farms..nope..Then two stores in Bucksport all these places have the word "market" or grocery, on their sign and they have beer and chips. I finnally pulled off at the Orland Market and hit the
jackpot..guy says yeah we have hot dogs..how many...wow I can even buy singles...like this place. Are they red? No way...I don't sell what I don't eat...so I buy 3 regular color hot dogs and hope he can trade for them.
Get home throw stuff in car and fly to yacht club..a couple of parents look at me and say you look stressed about this trip or something..I say no I just got off Rte I. for the second day in a row..they took me sailing..in my skirt and sandals! I threw those off and just climbed in the boat. What the heck! It was a TownClass..always wanted to sail one of those...sort of like Herreshoff 12 1/2 They are an old class out of Marble head. Well I know I don't want one..too tippy, no keel just a centerboard and really a little finicky. But it definitely blew the road dust out of my head! WE watched the kids take off in three beetle cats for Hog Island for the night.
Woke up this morning and it was completely fogged in, thought they might all get towed back by the whalers they took out. But Ty said they all sailed back..He had one of the boats the whole way back and said it was a great sail. All of them no worse for the wear..traded a hot dog for a red one too! He also had a sausage in his bag. Guess they didn't sleep much but that is the fun of it all.
So I cut up some fabric for curtains today..I am sort of working on them..we"ll see.
By the way we did NOT have red hot dogs for dinner last night! Have a good weekend all. G.
e enjte, 26 korrik 2007
Stop complaining people....
Ok I drove to Machias this afternoon..its hot today 90 something..almost a two hour drive plus the State -O- Maine in its infinite wisdom is using some of those road dollars we vote on every year to improve the roads...route 1 in the middle of July...brilliant!! I say we have a referendum on the dates for road improvements. The wait was exactly 1/2 a cd and several pages of the
Ellsworth American Newspaper! Kid you not. ONe lane. So I go to the meeting...no meeting.
No one can come...no one can inform anyone either...nice.
So I go back to the office to finish a Prospect list for grant writing class..don't ask. It took forever and I really thought "why am I doing this"??? I don't need this...my office does not have air conditioning but it does have several or should I say airplane hangar size wall windows. Toasty!
I come home and have to get Ty ready for a sailing overnight with the yacht club after soccer camp tommorow. So I call a parent whose kid went last year to ask about food and she is out..so I call another parent who is a nutrition nut...and she says..pack everything you would never give them at home! Soda chips hotdogs..hmmm (never? at home?) So I ask her about breakfast and she says more soda...
eewww..and something like glazed donut holes! OK ...So I say" do I put this in a cooler"...and she says "no! a cooler is definitely not cool" Huh?? "Paper bag" she says...I say "but how do they keep it all dry...she says "they don't care."..I say "my Diddy, (her nickname is Diddy) aren't we a little negative tonight...she says no "just realistic".. Ty told me to get pop-tarts and red hotdogs he should fit in just fine.
We are definitely not going to make Yacht club digest for most extravagant "kid cruise".
Tommorow is a trip in the other direction..Rockland for the morning. Disaster Mental Health people ..now that's an oxymoron..yep its hot and I am tired.
Hope they didn't find any projects for those big orange sleeper trucks (DOT) on the southern end of rte 1. I am not up for that tommorow. See ya..
Ps. Don says we are having red hot dogs for dinner tommorow just so we can say Tyler actually ate food that he gets at home on the trip...I don't do red hot dogs.
Ellsworth American Newspaper! Kid you not. ONe lane. So I go to the meeting...no meeting.
No one can come...no one can inform anyone either...nice.
So I go back to the office to finish a Prospect list for grant writing class..don't ask. It took forever and I really thought "why am I doing this"??? I don't need this...my office does not have air conditioning but it does have several or should I say airplane hangar size wall windows. Toasty!
I come home and have to get Ty ready for a sailing overnight with the yacht club after soccer camp tommorow. So I call a parent whose kid went last year to ask about food and she is out..so I call another parent who is a nutrition nut...and she says..pack everything you would never give them at home! Soda chips hotdogs..hmmm (never? at home?) So I ask her about breakfast and she says more soda...
eewww..and something like glazed donut holes! OK ...So I say" do I put this in a cooler"...and she says "no! a cooler is definitely not cool" Huh?? "Paper bag" she says...I say "but how do they keep it all dry...she says "they don't care."..I say "my Diddy, (her nickname is Diddy) aren't we a little negative tonight...she says no "just realistic".. Ty told me to get pop-tarts and red hotdogs he should fit in just fine.
We are definitely not going to make Yacht club digest for most extravagant "kid cruise".
Tommorow is a trip in the other direction..Rockland for the morning. Disaster Mental Health people ..now that's an oxymoron..yep its hot and I am tired.
Hope they didn't find any projects for those big orange sleeper trucks (DOT) on the southern end of rte 1. I am not up for that tommorow. See ya..
Ps. Don says we are having red hot dogs for dinner tommorow just so we can say Tyler actually ate food that he gets at home on the trip...I don't do red hot dogs.
Wait its summer....
Its Hot!! I am not complaining mind you and you can all thank Tyler for this weather as he has Bootin Eagles soccer camp 4 1/2 hours a day of soccer in Ellsworth..thats why its Hot! I don't mind I can actually wear sleeveless dresses and sandals to work instead of sweaters. That is what summer is supposed to be not this endless fog and rain and fiftys we have had. Hope it continues.
So work and life got in the way of blogging imagine that?! I actually wrote one the other day and lost it in the shuffle of the office. Kiddo's actually traveled by themselves to Portland and took in a rock concert and their mom did not have a coronary! I went sailing instead. That usually calms me down from just about anything! Don would kill to have a boat..me I like OPB's other peoples boats...he did not grow up with that yearly spring/fall load unload/ scrape varnish/engine problems/sail repairs/bad weather cant go out/yard bills/etc etc. Mr. Accountant who worries incessantly about money and has worked at not one but TWO big boat companies and he still wants one! go figure! Howard had the right idea with the "Drambuini"
inflate and deflate!!
So concert next week August 2 7pm EHS auditorium Caroline will be singing..I tried to put the picture that was in the paper in this blog but couldn't so go to Ellsworth American and click on Arts and Leisure to article about Ellsworth Alums give back. She and Matt are reprising Audrey and Seymour...REEEEAALLLY SEYMOUR!
All the disaster people left the state so if you are reading this and you are in my chapter and in Maine...well good luck to you..I am the czarina for a few days. Didn't leave here until after 4 yesterday and my day ends usually at 3 although I came in late...AFES and fire volunteers and Me and Pat handlling all the calls. Rains it pours. No one called last night so thats a good thing.
Machias for a meeting today and Rockland tommorow. Stay cool everyone. ARC girl
Stay very cool sib #2 who decided to go with Mumsy to Italy this fall!! She is ecstatic and its probably a very good thing you are going! You will have fun..mostly...just drink heavily! My friend Chris is great..the trip will be way above par!
So work and life got in the way of blogging imagine that?! I actually wrote one the other day and lost it in the shuffle of the office. Kiddo's actually traveled by themselves to Portland and took in a rock concert and their mom did not have a coronary! I went sailing instead. That usually calms me down from just about anything! Don would kill to have a boat..me I like OPB's other peoples boats...he did not grow up with that yearly spring/fall load unload/ scrape varnish/engine problems/sail repairs/bad weather cant go out/yard bills/etc etc. Mr. Accountant who worries incessantly about money and has worked at not one but TWO big boat companies and he still wants one! go figure! Howard had the right idea with the "Drambuini"
inflate and deflate!!
So concert next week August 2 7pm EHS auditorium Caroline will be singing..I tried to put the picture that was in the paper in this blog but couldn't so go to Ellsworth American and click on Arts and Leisure to article about Ellsworth Alums give back. She and Matt are reprising Audrey and Seymour...REEEEAALLLY SEYMOUR!
All the disaster people left the state so if you are reading this and you are in my chapter and in Maine...well good luck to you..I am the czarina for a few days. Didn't leave here until after 4 yesterday and my day ends usually at 3 although I came in late...AFES and fire volunteers and Me and Pat handlling all the calls. Rains it pours. No one called last night so thats a good thing.
Machias for a meeting today and Rockland tommorow. Stay cool everyone. ARC girl
Stay very cool sib #2 who decided to go with Mumsy to Italy this fall!! She is ecstatic and its probably a very good thing you are going! You will have fun..mostly...just drink heavily! My friend Chris is great..the trip will be way above par!
e premte, 20 korrik 2007
"down back of Reny's"
Its pouring...what else is new this summer?..and I went out to get the office mail, some flyer was jammed in the box so I pulled at it..I was not into standing out there too long, it was raining buckets...and when I pulled the hide-a-key flew out of the mailbox, opening up and landing in the grass below the deck! Nice! So I went back in to get on my rain coat and back out to search the lawn for the keys, and the two pieces to the hide a key box! So much for staying dry. I had thrown the mail on a table, not bothering to look at it. Well after drying out and making some calls and other business I found the mail, still wet and there was a letter addressed to American Red Cross "down back of Renys" Ellsworth Maine! Some guy from Deer Isle mind you! Inside was a self addressed stamped envelope back to him! Huh?? kept digging..found a cpr card with a note "wrong card..need first aid" short sweet and to the point! So in case you need to find me
you all now know where to look!!
It has not been a good week in the Ellsworth and Rockland offices..we have had nothing but "trouble" over the phone etc. I am not sure any of us have accomplished much. I know I have not. But I will keep trying!! Constant interruptions have been the issue here. Either phone or people coming in...yesterday afternoon one of the ham radio guys had to come in and vent.
That of course is always a treat! He is mad at the group because they have not gotten the tower up and hoped that the evening they planned now to do it would fit into "my schedule" and would not be too late a night for me because they knew I had to drive 30 miles! He was very worried about accomodating me! It was pretty cute! They are characters and I don't understand a thing they do..but I am sure when we really need them in a crisis I will be glad they are here.
So when is the sun going to shine again? My husband said he heard we can expect a nice weekend? I will believe it when I sees it! This is just making me crazy..60 degrees is not my idea of summer. Tommorow is the ST. Francis summer fair and for some reason neither Don or I are working at it. Probably should call someone to see what we can do..but then again maybe it would just be fun to attend. Don will have to deal with the money afterwards anyways.
Kiddo's are driving to Portland on Sunday for a rock concert..another reason to worry this weekend..yippee.
Well if the weather keeps up Ms. Barboza could make millions on her new raingear! I remember the summer I was going to make "Maine Bikinis" out of polar fleece and sell them in the store.
I'm feeling a little like that summer....wheres global warming when you need it??
Thats it from here.."down back Renys" ARC girl..have a good one!
you all now know where to look!!
It has not been a good week in the Ellsworth and Rockland offices..we have had nothing but "trouble" over the phone etc. I am not sure any of us have accomplished much. I know I have not. But I will keep trying!! Constant interruptions have been the issue here. Either phone or people coming in...yesterday afternoon one of the ham radio guys had to come in and vent.
That of course is always a treat! He is mad at the group because they have not gotten the tower up and hoped that the evening they planned now to do it would fit into "my schedule" and would not be too late a night for me because they knew I had to drive 30 miles! He was very worried about accomodating me! It was pretty cute! They are characters and I don't understand a thing they do..but I am sure when we really need them in a crisis I will be glad they are here.
So when is the sun going to shine again? My husband said he heard we can expect a nice weekend? I will believe it when I sees it! This is just making me crazy..60 degrees is not my idea of summer. Tommorow is the ST. Francis summer fair and for some reason neither Don or I are working at it. Probably should call someone to see what we can do..but then again maybe it would just be fun to attend. Don will have to deal with the money afterwards anyways.
Kiddo's are driving to Portland on Sunday for a rock concert..another reason to worry this weekend..yippee.
Well if the weather keeps up Ms. Barboza could make millions on her new raingear! I remember the summer I was going to make "Maine Bikinis" out of polar fleece and sell them in the store.
I'm feeling a little like that summer....wheres global warming when you need it??
Thats it from here.."down back Renys" ARC girl..have a good one!
e mërkurë, 18 korrik 2007
Helllooo Federal....
or is that FEMA that I actually need... or is it just a good stiff drink! ? So you wonder where Ive been huh? Well diva daughter had to go to NYC this weekend.. remember the 6:30 am flight. Yes well she was supposed to come back Monday night and she MISSED the plane. Thats right missed it. They paged her and paged the flight but she, who says she was "near" the gate did not hear that! But was listening for it. I might add this was the last flight out of Laguadia for the night to Maine. Alone in New York. Yep. I was a happy mom. Dad was happy too. She made it home yesterday, after a delay and we drove back up the coast. I had decided at the last minute to take yesterday off...good thing but was going to be back for my class..that did not happen.
I was hoping for a good day today in the office..NOT. Computer was unhappy this morning, some woman was extremely unhappy this morning, needed assistance "yesterday" ie: April, but forgot to ask for it" yesterday"!! Then basically non productive, confusing and just plain
"one of those days" you know 36 of something when someone needs 37...
I am going home..perhaps tommorow will be better.
I was hoping for a good day today in the office..NOT. Computer was unhappy this morning, some woman was extremely unhappy this morning, needed assistance "yesterday" ie: April, but forgot to ask for it" yesterday"!! Then basically non productive, confusing and just plain
"one of those days" you know 36 of something when someone needs 37...
I am going home..perhaps tommorow will be better.
e premte, 13 korrik 2007
Happy faces..
oooh I went home last night and the clouds had all but dissipated. Yeah! I stopped at Walmart, not my fav store by any means regardless of what Ginny and Lynn will tell you..especially the one in Ellsworth..and bought Ty a red shag rug and some pillows for his newly arranged and cleaned up room. He, with the expert help of his sister, whom he adores, had sorted thru alot of his stuff and only put back things he used or cared about at this point in his life. He is thrilled with how much more room he has and the fact that things are not on top of him. Tyler is like me in that he can only take so much clutter in his life and then it overwhelms him and I really think it was adding to his emotional state, of feeling out of control. Ok so mom feels better.
Caroline spent her 19th birthday with friends Wednesday night in Bar Harbor at Geddys pub.
Oh does that bring back memories of my summers past. Judging from some photos they all had a good time and she is really back with some friends she had neglected when she was going out with Brandon. Her friends kind of got lost in the shuffle of their relationship for whatever reason. I am taking her to Portland tonight where we will meet up with "other daughter" Aisha for dinner and then Care flies to NYC for the weekend to meet some friends from college. Her plane is at some god awful time in the am like 5:50 or 6am or something Ugh. I plan on just rolling out of bed and driving over to the airport...then coming back to Kathi's house and starting my morning.
So that is my weekend ahead..of course I will have to drive back to Portland Monday night after work and pick her up and drive home Tuesday morning. I am not sure what I get out of this.
I think I need to borrow that new Italian leather bag she brought back from Venice...Hmmmm
Either that or she needs to get me a real nice knock off from a street vendor in NYC what do you all think??????
ARC MOM!
Caroline spent her 19th birthday with friends Wednesday night in Bar Harbor at Geddys pub.
Oh does that bring back memories of my summers past. Judging from some photos they all had a good time and she is really back with some friends she had neglected when she was going out with Brandon. Her friends kind of got lost in the shuffle of their relationship for whatever reason. I am taking her to Portland tonight where we will meet up with "other daughter" Aisha for dinner and then Care flies to NYC for the weekend to meet some friends from college. Her plane is at some god awful time in the am like 5:50 or 6am or something Ugh. I plan on just rolling out of bed and driving over to the airport...then coming back to Kathi's house and starting my morning.
So that is my weekend ahead..of course I will have to drive back to Portland Monday night after work and pick her up and drive home Tuesday morning. I am not sure what I get out of this.
I think I need to borrow that new Italian leather bag she brought back from Venice...Hmmmm
Either that or she needs to get me a real nice knock off from a street vendor in NYC what do you all think??????
ARC MOM!
e enjte, 12 korrik 2007
The opposite side of the fence...
There's the girl..the one who turned 19 yesterday and then there's the boy..the one who will turn 14 next month. For those who can't add that is a 13 yearold! Who is 6 feet tall, very intelligent, very sensitive and on a hormone seige! I think there is a permanent thunder cloud over his head lately. Last night it poured! Don't let anyone tell you boys are easy... that is only because they never talk! Eventually it all has to boil over. Unfortunately they don't understand that its ok to feel bad sometimes, to cry or be angry or hurt. NO matter what kind of parent you are.
Trying to make his world a little better, after he left for soccer today I tore apart his room, he has the smallest in the house and set to rearranging it for more space. Of course I decided to do this two hours before coming to work..you should have seen me moving all that furniture in that space..it was comical. I did it though and came up with a good arrangement and took some pieces out and substituted some shelving from elsewhere so I think he will be pleased. Then I called Care at work to have her help him re put things on shelves etc. And maybe not put so much back in there. I will go to Walmart after class to day to see if there isnt anything to add to the mix. When I called home to see if he liked it he said yeah but he had had a bad day at soccer...can't win for losing I guess. I hope its a stage because he sure is not a happy camper right now and he even admits he doesn't really know why.
Well no one said being a mom was easy..although I suppose being a 13 year old right now isn't too easy either.
Trying to make his world a little better, after he left for soccer today I tore apart his room, he has the smallest in the house and set to rearranging it for more space. Of course I decided to do this two hours before coming to work..you should have seen me moving all that furniture in that space..it was comical. I did it though and came up with a good arrangement and took some pieces out and substituted some shelving from elsewhere so I think he will be pleased. Then I called Care at work to have her help him re put things on shelves etc. And maybe not put so much back in there. I will go to Walmart after class to day to see if there isnt anything to add to the mix. When I called home to see if he liked it he said yeah but he had had a bad day at soccer...can't win for losing I guess. I hope its a stage because he sure is not a happy camper right now and he even admits he doesn't really know why.
Well no one said being a mom was easy..although I suppose being a 13 year old right now isn't too easy either.
e mërkurë, 11 korrik 2007
Happy Birthday Caroline
19 years ago today, after 5 years of infertility, two surgeries, one miscarriage, and 2 and 1/2 days of on and off labor a beautiful little girl came into the world with a blank slate! Her name had years before been picked out..Caroline Erin. She started to fill that blank slate from day one..jaundice! Then there was colic, then as she got older severe asthma, not a healthy little one. But a spit fire. She never stopped, she talked, she danced, she sang and she laughed. She had a million and one ear infections and probably ended up with some of her language learning issues from that as well as dyslexia! But still she strove on. Nothing stopped her. If someone told her she couldn't do it, well then she did! She worked hard to learn to read and write, and struggled with math, but could she sing and entertain. Soon she grew older, and started to really perform on real stages, her voice soaring with each new instructor, or director. She strived for perfection in her studies working to maintain grade point averages that we really never thought were possible considering her early difficulties. She would not let anything stop her..the slate started to fill with accomplishments and honors, and before we knew it she was off to college. A school had recognized her gifts and said "come study here...that slate is now fillling with new and exciting accomplishments and adventures..it is only 19 years full, not anywhere near my 47 or Don's 50 but those 19 years have given me more joy than I could ever imagine and I can not wait to see what she does with the rest of that empty slate. Happy Birthday Care. Love Mom
e hënë, 9 korrik 2007
Summer where are you???
Come on...Its 61 and raining again....it has rained at least once a day since July 4th and the high has not gotten above 68 or 70 for days and days. I need heat. I need sunshine, I need to wear my shorts and sandals. No wonder I can't stop coughing and wheezing. My sis wants to cheer me up with Pina coladas but who wants them when its cool enough for hot tea!!
The internet says most of the country is dying from a heat wave send it on up I say!!! And soon!! We went to a porch party on Saturday night..It was freezing..the wind off the water..ugh!
Came home and watched a mundane movie and ate pizza with the kids.
So for those of you who don't visit ms. barboza's blog she has a link to what your body is worth, monetary wise, dead! i.e: body parts, cadaver,.. just click on my link to her blog and check out her latest entry where you will find the link...answer the questions and you will find out what you are worth dead! Now I came out at 4140.00 but she and Susan Simmons came out at more...age is definitely a factor! I could have tweaked a few questions but I think the age thing is really the kicker on that one.
Trying to clean up some loose ends, did my review for Ginny today. Office is fairly quiet.
Care has the day off. Ty and I went to Bangor yesterday so he could get soccer cleats for todays soccer camp. Naturally the only ones they had in his size were the ones that cost more. I can not keep him in shoes. A pair of cleats a year, several pairs of skate shoes,(these are the every day shoe as well as for skate boarding) then at least two pairs of basketball shoes, he ususually grows out of a pair during the season! a pair of cross trainers for running and tennis, and dress shoes. Oh I forgot then there's boots and snow board boots. This is the minimal amount for a year. And they are all huge..he wears a 12 now. The boxes are huge. The prices are huge.
Olympia sometimes has a two for one deal..that helps. Now they even have a rewards card..I should do pretty well on that thing.
Caroline of course has hundreds of shoes..all of which she buys herself. She finds them all over, and enjoys wearing the highest of heels and the funkiest or fanciest or boldest color or what ever, but she has been the same size for a decade and she can find designer shoes that may have cost over a hundred at Mardens for $3.oo ! She will change with each outfit, or on a whim all day long. Tyler wears one pair a day, at most two, if he has a specific sport that day, and he still costs more!
So not much going on as you can see when I start rambling on about shoes..I need some summer fun..Ginny needs sunshine and a nice day on Saturday..Come on..Summer already!!!!
The internet says most of the country is dying from a heat wave send it on up I say!!! And soon!! We went to a porch party on Saturday night..It was freezing..the wind off the water..ugh!
Came home and watched a mundane movie and ate pizza with the kids.
So for those of you who don't visit ms. barboza's blog she has a link to what your body is worth, monetary wise, dead! i.e: body parts, cadaver,.. just click on my link to her blog and check out her latest entry where you will find the link...answer the questions and you will find out what you are worth dead! Now I came out at 4140.00 but she and Susan Simmons came out at more...age is definitely a factor! I could have tweaked a few questions but I think the age thing is really the kicker on that one.
Trying to clean up some loose ends, did my review for Ginny today. Office is fairly quiet.
Care has the day off. Ty and I went to Bangor yesterday so he could get soccer cleats for todays soccer camp. Naturally the only ones they had in his size were the ones that cost more. I can not keep him in shoes. A pair of cleats a year, several pairs of skate shoes,(these are the every day shoe as well as for skate boarding) then at least two pairs of basketball shoes, he ususually grows out of a pair during the season! a pair of cross trainers for running and tennis, and dress shoes. Oh I forgot then there's boots and snow board boots. This is the minimal amount for a year. And they are all huge..he wears a 12 now. The boxes are huge. The prices are huge.
Olympia sometimes has a two for one deal..that helps. Now they even have a rewards card..I should do pretty well on that thing.
Caroline of course has hundreds of shoes..all of which she buys herself. She finds them all over, and enjoys wearing the highest of heels and the funkiest or fanciest or boldest color or what ever, but she has been the same size for a decade and she can find designer shoes that may have cost over a hundred at Mardens for $3.oo ! She will change with each outfit, or on a whim all day long. Tyler wears one pair a day, at most two, if he has a specific sport that day, and he still costs more!
So not much going on as you can see when I start rambling on about shoes..I need some summer fun..Ginny needs sunshine and a nice day on Saturday..Come on..Summer already!!!!
e shtunë, 7 korrik 2007
Sat-errr-day
What happened to summer? I think its 55 today! No wait its 75...no wait back to 55 and cloudy!
Give me a break, maybe I should get deployed by ARC to the floods for awhile in Texas or Oklahoma at least the weather is consistent. I still have my cold/allergies whatever so I am accomplishing zip today. nada! OH well. Could it at least stay warm out?
Tried to go to Tradewinds our illustrious version of Hannaford in swanky Blue Hill by the Bay..every single parking space...every single one even the ones on the side near Rite aid that no one parks in were taken. Now if I did not have to go to the Pharmacy I would have immediately blew out of there but instead I took two turns around and got a spot..well they had Dons Rx but mine was denied by insurance...Excuse me was not today Lucky Sevens day?? PULEEESE!
So I have been searching the web for 1960's historical fiction for Ty..and thought I might as well let anyone who is actually reading this stuff aware of my misery today. Going to a cocktail Party this afternoon "porch party"; I guess I could use a little liquid attitude adjustment! Nothing else seems to be working today. MY daughter informed me she made 100.00 yesterday..in one day
she's 19! or almost! What did I do wrong? Don't answer that anyone...I already know the answer to that one...and it was my choice! Course if I would finish my self review and hand it to my boss instead of leave it in my bag collecting dust..again my faux pas.
Well all, I hear when we go back to work on Monday its going to warm up, yippee so keep your selfs warm..Have a good weekend and I will try to "lighten up".
Give me a break, maybe I should get deployed by ARC to the floods for awhile in Texas or Oklahoma at least the weather is consistent. I still have my cold/allergies whatever so I am accomplishing zip today. nada! OH well. Could it at least stay warm out?
Tried to go to Tradewinds our illustrious version of Hannaford in swanky Blue Hill by the Bay..every single parking space...every single one even the ones on the side near Rite aid that no one parks in were taken. Now if I did not have to go to the Pharmacy I would have immediately blew out of there but instead I took two turns around and got a spot..well they had Dons Rx but mine was denied by insurance...Excuse me was not today Lucky Sevens day?? PULEEESE!
So I have been searching the web for 1960's historical fiction for Ty..and thought I might as well let anyone who is actually reading this stuff aware of my misery today. Going to a cocktail Party this afternoon "porch party"; I guess I could use a little liquid attitude adjustment! Nothing else seems to be working today. MY daughter informed me she made 100.00 yesterday..in one day
she's 19! or almost! What did I do wrong? Don't answer that anyone...I already know the answer to that one...and it was my choice! Course if I would finish my self review and hand it to my boss instead of leave it in my bag collecting dust..again my faux pas.
Well all, I hear when we go back to work on Monday its going to warm up, yippee so keep your selfs warm..Have a good weekend and I will try to "lighten up".
e enjte, 5 korrik 2007
The complaint dept. is open...
Hello, my name is Gretchen, what can I "not" help you with today because I am either incapable of entering that website (don't really have access to that), my fax and printer is down and I really wasn't prepared to teach you "first aid" when I came in today! Or would you like career and job advice because yours is crappy right now? Or you can't make up your mind whether to send your employees here for class or have a class at your establishment?
Yes I have been here for three hours and have accomplished all of the above! And of course given Ginny many phone calls to complain about the complaints and tell her I have done nothing of my own job..of course she has done nothing of hers either so we are in cahoots on that one. So that leaves us the wedding..her daughters which is NEXT week to talk about! Speaking of daughters....I am hoping to live thru the summer without an ulcer.
Now she has always been a great trustworthy kid..but at 19 (on the 11th) and of course without a beau, she is out more at night. In a car..her car...get the picture...
Now when she was in High school she went out with her friends but it was the Mall or movies or dinner, and they did not drink. College students drink. I do not have a problem with it unless it involves driving. When she is in DC I don't worry half as much, A. Because she is a responsible drinker, and B. She is either on foot, or on the Metro. Not so in rural Maine. We discuss incessantly believe me...and she assures me...but you know how that goes. Then of course there is the "little issue" that as a 19 year old in the good old US of A you can not drink legally. Now of course she just got back from Europe where every country is 18..many of her friends around here were abroad, or on the Maine Maritime cruise or whatever...its ridiculous what we make these young adults go through. Yes you can ...no you can't. Mothers against Drunk Drivers a worthy organization, got it all wrong on this one though. It has promoted instead a culture of binge drinking and poor alcohol awareness and use on campus. Kids have to hide and drink before they go to the pubs or clubs, so they overindulge..instead of being able to drink responsibly and perhaps with food and more slowly out in the open. And has it prevented teen deaths on the roadways? Not hardly..speed and teenage driving is still the #1 cause of teenage deaths on the highways. So there..my soap box for the day.
So yes, without the boyfriend, means more time "out" circulating and that means a car..so mom is worrying more this summer than ever! She is going to NYC next weekend and I am less worried about that then some night out in Blue Hill! We never stop worrying the causes just change!!
So I saw the doctor today..take more allergy meds, take some prilosec type med incase its gastric, apparenty there is some "mottling on my vocal chords" by the way that was a pleasant exam..not! And it may be my inhaler which has worked so well all these years...ugh! OK OK..
To be continued.
Have to go to class..Prof. is good this time around...project though..just what I don't need.
Complaint Dept is closed for the Day..ARC Girl.
Yes I have been here for three hours and have accomplished all of the above! And of course given Ginny many phone calls to complain about the complaints and tell her I have done nothing of my own job..of course she has done nothing of hers either so we are in cahoots on that one. So that leaves us the wedding..her daughters which is NEXT week to talk about! Speaking of daughters....I am hoping to live thru the summer without an ulcer.
Now she has always been a great trustworthy kid..but at 19 (on the 11th) and of course without a beau, she is out more at night. In a car..her car...get the picture...
Now when she was in High school she went out with her friends but it was the Mall or movies or dinner, and they did not drink. College students drink. I do not have a problem with it unless it involves driving. When she is in DC I don't worry half as much, A. Because she is a responsible drinker, and B. She is either on foot, or on the Metro. Not so in rural Maine. We discuss incessantly believe me...and she assures me...but you know how that goes. Then of course there is the "little issue" that as a 19 year old in the good old US of A you can not drink legally. Now of course she just got back from Europe where every country is 18..many of her friends around here were abroad, or on the Maine Maritime cruise or whatever...its ridiculous what we make these young adults go through. Yes you can ...no you can't. Mothers against Drunk Drivers a worthy organization, got it all wrong on this one though. It has promoted instead a culture of binge drinking and poor alcohol awareness and use on campus. Kids have to hide and drink before they go to the pubs or clubs, so they overindulge..instead of being able to drink responsibly and perhaps with food and more slowly out in the open. And has it prevented teen deaths on the roadways? Not hardly..speed and teenage driving is still the #1 cause of teenage deaths on the highways. So there..my soap box for the day.
So yes, without the boyfriend, means more time "out" circulating and that means a car..so mom is worrying more this summer than ever! She is going to NYC next weekend and I am less worried about that then some night out in Blue Hill! We never stop worrying the causes just change!!
So I saw the doctor today..take more allergy meds, take some prilosec type med incase its gastric, apparenty there is some "mottling on my vocal chords" by the way that was a pleasant exam..not! And it may be my inhaler which has worked so well all these years...ugh! OK OK..
To be continued.
Have to go to class..Prof. is good this time around...project though..just what I don't need.
Complaint Dept is closed for the Day..ARC Girl.
e martë, 3 korrik 2007
Feeling better..
I think I have my voice back or almost. I was listening to myself talk today and realized it wasnt so bad..Don said last night the same thing..or that he had just gotten used to the scratchy one! Of course this week I finnally see the MD! I will go anyways, it was a long haul and I might need some allergy med adjustment or something. I think the cold thing might be disappating too. Seems as if its going around though so I don't feel so bad.
4th is tommorow and Ellsworth is packed with cars all trying to go somewhere..ugh. Kathi and Steve took a ride over to MDI to enjoy the day, called to ask about going to Northeast Harbor.
Can't say that would be a bad place to be today. I do have to make a few trips "home" each summer to see what new things they can "accessorize" the main street with for the enjoyment of the rich and richer. She asked which street was mine, I think she was going to try to drive by the house..that will shock her..for those of you who don't know, my family homestead now has a large fountain out in front and a glass english arboretum off the back with a stone lion guarding the top of a stone wall. Nothing too excessive mind you,.. next to the understated shingled cottages on each side of the house!
Speaking of that, the old home..the 30 year old unsolved murder of a young girl that happened when I was a teenager one summer was in the paper. Tyler and I were reading it..boy did that bring back memories. No one was ever murdered there, not like that any ways..young girl from away, body found in the Astique Azelea gardens and her dog just wandering the town. I guess they hope maybe after all these years someone may come forward with something new.
Have to attend my first grant class tonight. Oh..who puts a class on the night before the 4th?
In Maine? Some guy named Christo's that's who. I better stop my whining.
I want to take this and get it over with. So its now or never... or later...
A piece of advice I have always given my kids is that the written word will always follow you, and with the internet, there is no semblance of confidentiality ..just hit the wrong button..I know that.. on an email I sent to the wrong list from work one day! Where am I going with this..I read a blog recently, not one of my groups, that was bitter. It will stick with me instead of disappearing into blog land like the ones we all write daily..and although we may even discuss sad topics or a bad event, the time and space is used wisely, not to hurt someone else or another reader. Yes I would rather be an eternal optimist or live with one...
Happpy 4th everyone. ARC girl.
4th is tommorow and Ellsworth is packed with cars all trying to go somewhere..ugh. Kathi and Steve took a ride over to MDI to enjoy the day, called to ask about going to Northeast Harbor.
Can't say that would be a bad place to be today. I do have to make a few trips "home" each summer to see what new things they can "accessorize" the main street with for the enjoyment of the rich and richer. She asked which street was mine, I think she was going to try to drive by the house..that will shock her..for those of you who don't know, my family homestead now has a large fountain out in front and a glass english arboretum off the back with a stone lion guarding the top of a stone wall. Nothing too excessive mind you,.. next to the understated shingled cottages on each side of the house!
Speaking of that, the old home..the 30 year old unsolved murder of a young girl that happened when I was a teenager one summer was in the paper. Tyler and I were reading it..boy did that bring back memories. No one was ever murdered there, not like that any ways..young girl from away, body found in the Astique Azelea gardens and her dog just wandering the town. I guess they hope maybe after all these years someone may come forward with something new.
Have to attend my first grant class tonight. Oh..who puts a class on the night before the 4th?
In Maine? Some guy named Christo's that's who. I better stop my whining.
I want to take this and get it over with. So its now or never... or later...
A piece of advice I have always given my kids is that the written word will always follow you, and with the internet, there is no semblance of confidentiality ..just hit the wrong button..I know that.. on an email I sent to the wrong list from work one day! Where am I going with this..I read a blog recently, not one of my groups, that was bitter. It will stick with me instead of disappearing into blog land like the ones we all write daily..and although we may even discuss sad topics or a bad event, the time and space is used wisely, not to hurt someone else or another reader. Yes I would rather be an eternal optimist or live with one...
Happpy 4th everyone. ARC girl.
e hënë, 2 korrik 2007
BTW
Thats "back to work" not "by the way"..darn it! Seems like everyone is on vacation this week or definitely in that "mode". Ellsworth traffic is one big snarl..or one you want to 'snarl' at! Tried to go get a sandwich at lunch today, to treat myself I decided to go to Frankies at the bookstore thinking they might have a panini special (which they did) getting there..one shopping center down the street was the problem!! Oh well my sandwich and ice coffee tastes good. I am in paper work, computer mode today.
This weekend although beautiful but cool weather wise was a little of a waste for me. I could not get out of my own way. I woke up Sat. morning with a truck on my face. My voice gone again and feeling quite sorry for myself. At least it was sunny on my deck the roses were blooming and the water was blue..I guess I really do live in a beautiful corner of the world most of the year. I did attempt to do stuff which immediately landed me on the couch. Which is where Caroline saw me everytime she came in or out.."just where I left you last time" she would say.
I did do alot of laundry though. Everyone was busy around me though..
Ty did alot of skateboarding and got new shoes .. Don started a deck for my mom, Steve came up to the cottage, Kathi is still with Jennifer but will be up today ( see what I mean about everybody being on vacation) Caroline went to Bar Harbor Sat night, Bangor Friday with Lucy and Northeast Harbor Sunday night all with different groups of friends. I guess she will survive not being in DC. Then she gets up every morning to be at the INN by 7am..she must be exhausted..
Oh and the worst thing of it all..I think my summer class starts tommorow night 4-6:45 jeez. Insult to injury there! Day before the holiday AND the day after.Who came up with that schedule! What was I thinking! This grant writing class seems to only be offered during the summer. I have waited it out several semesters and every year it only comes in the summer so I am biting the bullet. Its a skill I would like to have so I will get it done and then one more course and I will have my non-profit masters certificate. Thats it folks I am not going for the full MS. Not now anyways. Its just too hard to be a student Mom and work for ARC. plus my other volunteer stuff.
So all you party-iers have a drink for me tommorow night while I am sweating in some classroom! Watching some body talk about grants! Keep it down to a dull roar will ya?!
This weekend although beautiful but cool weather wise was a little of a waste for me. I could not get out of my own way. I woke up Sat. morning with a truck on my face. My voice gone again and feeling quite sorry for myself. At least it was sunny on my deck the roses were blooming and the water was blue..I guess I really do live in a beautiful corner of the world most of the year. I did attempt to do stuff which immediately landed me on the couch. Which is where Caroline saw me everytime she came in or out.."just where I left you last time" she would say.
I did do alot of laundry though. Everyone was busy around me though..
Ty did alot of skateboarding and got new shoes .. Don started a deck for my mom, Steve came up to the cottage, Kathi is still with Jennifer but will be up today ( see what I mean about everybody being on vacation) Caroline went to Bar Harbor Sat night, Bangor Friday with Lucy and Northeast Harbor Sunday night all with different groups of friends. I guess she will survive not being in DC. Then she gets up every morning to be at the INN by 7am..she must be exhausted..
Oh and the worst thing of it all..I think my summer class starts tommorow night 4-6:45 jeez. Insult to injury there! Day before the holiday AND the day after.Who came up with that schedule! What was I thinking! This grant writing class seems to only be offered during the summer. I have waited it out several semesters and every year it only comes in the summer so I am biting the bullet. Its a skill I would like to have so I will get it done and then one more course and I will have my non-profit masters certificate. Thats it folks I am not going for the full MS. Not now anyways. Its just too hard to be a student Mom and work for ARC. plus my other volunteer stuff.
So all you party-iers have a drink for me tommorow night while I am sweating in some classroom! Watching some body talk about grants! Keep it down to a dull roar will ya?!
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