Monday

Okay so we watched the Super Bowl, which was actually a pretty exciting game. I was rooting for the underdogs, the Cardinals, and thought they were going to win. What an upset in that last few minutes! Bummer big time for those poor Cardinals!

My favorite commercials were the Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head one where her lips fall off (still yelling at the Mr.) and she changes out her eyes to the angry ones, and then, of course, the Clydesdale commercial where he's in love with the circus horse.

We ate our junk food and Keith drank a bunch of beer, so today he calls from work saying he is not feeling all that great and is having intestinal issues. Hmm...wonder why.

I did get up this morning and turned on the Today Show, which I never ever watch, but wanted to see the Obama interview, since like so many others I am somewhat Obama obsessed. Obamessed. So, in between watching the show I vacuumed the living room, dusted the knick knacks, ran the dishwasher, washed the chair cushions and the sofa blankets. Maybe I should watch the Today Show every morning while cleaning stuff!

I'm thinking maybe I can teach the cats to do the laundry, they seem to be fascinated with the washer and dryer. What is it with cats and open doors? I have to be so careful when I open cabinets or closets because they just have to see what's inside. Lucy got stuck in the bedroom closet for hours the other day when I didn't see her and shut the door on her. She only escaped when Keith heard her frantic attempts to dig her way out.

Broke Down Monday Blues

It's Monday, a day when Keith normally gets up and goes to work and I get up a few hours later and don't go to work, but rather mess around on the computer for a while and maybe clean the cat boxes or empty the dishwasher. Maybe even do some laundry.

Not this morning, though, today Keith is taking my car over to the shop because it broke down AGAIN! I'm hoping it actually makes it over to the shop, which is about a mile down the road. Keith has to walk home because the truck's tires are rotting right on the wheels and it needs work, too, so he hasn't been driving it at all. He's going to take it over to the tire place to see what kind of cheap tires we can get so we'll at least have it drivable for times like this.

We are considering just giving up and buying a new car, but the thought of monthly car payments for the next five years just doesn't sound like fun. Ackkk!

Sometimes I wish we lived in one of those big cities where you don't even need a car to get to work, you've got taxis and subways and nobody owns a car because there's no place to park it anyway. But, when you work 30 miles away from home you kind of need some way to get there, don't you?

So, that's our Monday morning, spending money that we don't really want to spend on car repairs. Sigh...

Monday Monday

I used to dread Mondays. You tried to cram as much possible into your weekend only to have to wake up to reality on Monday morning and go back to the drudgery at the office. My office job wasn't all bad, I did make pretty good money and had some good benefits including a turkey dinner at Thanksgiving and a nice Christmas bonus. But day after day of data entry and billing just wears a person down. And then to give up the good paying job to move to Bakersfield and end up working at Wal-mart because there are no good paying office jobs here was just the icing on the cake.
So, to be able to work for myself and not have to get up on Monday mornings, or get up on Monday afternoons and go to an overnight job at Wal-mart is just so very nice.
I feel kind of guilty that Keith still has to get up on Mondays-and at 4:45 am no less-to go to his drudgery in the rail yard especially since it's supposed to get up to 102 degrees today and he works outside, but not enough to go back to a 'real' job.
Being self employed means setting your own hours, but since it's all up to you those hours tend to be pretty much every waking hour. If you're not packing, shipping, listing, photographing, or creating some new things you're thinking about packing, shipping, listing, photographing, or creating some new things. I actually sort of tried taking yesterday off but ended up doing some soldering and then of course checking on my shops and listing a few things.

Keith did take the weekend off. He had found some books at the antique show and spent most of the weekend reading when he wasn't napping. I did make him clean up the kitchen last night since I cooked and he napped. But, he deserved a break, he works really hard all week and then sort of works really hard around the house on the weekends. And I didn't feel like nagging him all weekend to work on The Amazing Unfinished House, so I let him get some well deserved rest.