Thanksgiving..and other things

We had a nice Thanksgiving with Ohana hosted by my niece and nephew at their home. So much food, card games, pool and movies. And of course Hawaiian style "talk story". Making memories is a great thing. We mostly just sat with one another and chilled but a good time.

Friday Hina, I and the two kids went to see New Moon. The movie was Ari's pick cause she was dying to see it. $35 for all of us to see a movie, and even after sneaking in candy and drinks we still bought over priced pop corn. For the record my Husband snuck the stuff in. :)

Saturday the Boys went to watch High School Football, and the Girls went to watch a Basketball Jamboree. After the Jamboree Ari and I came home and made a quick dinner, I lounged for a couple of hours after that and then went to Ohana Nights.

At 12 midnight my husband doubled over in pain, he totally reminded me giving birth in as far as the pain went. We finally went to the ER and they determined that he had a Kidney Stone, or stones. You should have seen him flop over from a sitting position to a laying position once he got some pain meds. He was out like a LIGHT!

Hope he has a speedy recovery, he is the 3rd brother out of 4 in his family that has had kidney stones. My youngest BIL says GREAT! I'm next. Poor guy.

Hope all of you had a great weekend, back to the grind tomorrow.

:)

And here it is......

The Day before Thanksgiving and what do I have done? I have the Turkey bought and that's all. Today we are traveling to our niece and nephews house to spend a couple of days. The plan for today is to run around like a crazy woman, I have to fax some papers, go to the doctors, go to the bank, do the shopping for tomorrow and take and pickup Ari from basketball practice, and somewhere in between all that, I want to clean the house and do a few loads of laundry.

Ever feel like you just aren't meeting your goals and commitments of being a wife and mother? I don't care if I work outside of the home full time, I still feel that our Home is a reflection of me. The woman! The Wife and the Mom. Why? I don't know why I feel that, but my home isn't where I want it to be and it's bothering me. Maybe I should cut myself a break huh? I know I should but I can't. Just one more thing I don't have control over.

Maybe I'm in a funk? Maybe I just need to see the sun? Should I purchase one of those mood lights that you sit under for 30 minutes a day? I dunno? It's time to get moving here, everyone have a awesome Thanksgiving!

Toughest Day is Done

I was told by the Fire Instructors that today was going to be the toughest day, the most physical. Let me tell yah people.....dey weren't lying, cause I was dying.

We fought 4 fires and did a search and rescue. I have to say if it wasn't for the great instructors and my wonderful, encouraging classmates, today would have totally sucked! Instead I made it thru with all their help and of course the Lord was with me, as I kept thinking that I was Meshach, Shadrach, or Abendego, and the Lord was with me in the fiery furnace. Thank you Jesus!

On to other things. This economy, our crummy Senate and House of Rep. The thought of more and more and higher and higher taxes have my panties all in a bunch. I keep telling myself God is in control and if I live in the manner that he tells me too, that everything should be okay. I have to tell myself this everyday.

So I try to live within my means, we don't have credit cards, and we are trying hard to use what God has given us and be wise stewards. We make a lot of missteps but we refocus. Why can't the federal and state governments do the same? Sorry....Hold on I got my panties in a bunch again. :)

I would advise everyone to try and be as frugal and watchful with your finances as you can. It would be a wise thing to do in these scary times.

Lastly, I just noticed that my forearms are swollen. ( Karen like yours I am remembering your photos you showed on FabGramma) So I'm going to rest my arms, I must have strained them during training. It's Ibuprofen time.... gulp gulp.

Firefighting

I'll be away at Advanced Firefighting School for the next few days. Say some prayers for me, it's a hard class physically and mentally. :)

Food Storage

I talked about food storage a few blog post ago. I ended up finding some good deals on food to add to the pantry. I only buy foods that we will eat, so I don't have dried beans anywhere in the house but I have stuff like peanut butter, flour, sugar, oats, soups, pasta etc. Today me and hubby shopped the sales at Albertsons. I don't remember precisely what we spent but I think it was $59.

Albertson's had a great deal on pies and ice cream. If you bought one Sara Lee pie at regular price ($6.59) you got a second pie free and two Breyers ice creams free. We doubled up on that deal.

Alfredo Sauce ( Ragu) 88 Cents we bought the limit of 4

and another good deal was peanut butter. $1 a jar of Jiff peanut butter. We bought the SMOOTH!

Everything we got was on sale, even treated ourselves to some calzones on the way out the store and I'm still full from that lunch and it was 4 plus hours ago.

I would encourage you to buy a few cans and jars of your favorite things each time you go to the store and do your shopping, from what I watch in the news the economy just looks like it's getting worse and worse.

I love great deals!

What I've Learned...

I've learned that I am only responsible for my own feelings and not for others feelings, the way they feel, or why they feel the way they do. Some people insist on ruining other peoples days with their cold shoulder and I am too old to put up with that kind of manipulation. So I'm moving on... Thank you!

Staying Put

I'm off today, from work not from the rocker. I've sent my son to get me a large Diet Coke with ice from the Chevron down the street. I went Soda-less yesterday. Oooh it was a hard day! I got caught up cleaning my room, every nook and cranny except for one nook. I was on a mission to find the kids birth certificates, hence the cleaning of the nook and cranny's.

Today after reviewing all my plans of what I can do and where I can go I've decided just stay put at home and work on another project. I do have to go to the doctor's office at some point in the day, but that should take me all of 10 minutes, then drop some things off at Goodwill and then back home. I don't want to spend any money so it's best to stay put.

My project for today is cleaning out the kitchen's nooks and cranny's. We are starting a food storage of sorts, trying to stock up on the things we use on a regular basis in case the dollar tumbles even lower we will have a bit stored up. I heard on the radio that you should have 1 - 3 years food supply and emergency items on hand. I don't think we even have a month. So we have a long way to go.

Back to the nooks

Veteran's Day Shout Out

I'd like to send a shout out to all the Veterans near and far for their brave service to our Country. No matter where you are serving may Our Lord bring you home to your loved ones soon.

It's my day off today and the next 3 days. I don't have any plans and the whole family is home with me today. Maybe we'll clean the house and bake cookies.

Maybe we'll just bake the cookies.

Maybe I'll go buy cookies and we'll just eat them.

Or just maybe I'll buy me just a couple of cookies from Mrs. Fields and eat them on the way home and throw away the bag (evidence) before I come in the house? hehehehe

Yum Yum

I'm so Lazy

I'm so lazy... how lazy you ask?

Not so lazy that I don't work and just sit on my fat butt and don't do crap all day.

Not so lazy that I wear my clothes inside out when it get's dirty on the outside cause I don't want to wash clothes.

Not so lazy that I don't keep a clean home or anything like that.

But I'm soooooo lazy that I will throw up a quick blog now, because in 5 minutes my computer will be out of battery power and I'm too lazy to take 10 steps to get the power cord.

That's how lazy I am :(

Sometimes I wish this blog was anonymous

If my blog was anonymous I could...

1. Blog about my enemies.....come on now we all have enemies

2. Blog about family members that tick me off

3. Blog about outrageous topics that couldn't come back to bite me in the butt

4. State my opinion forcefully without fear of repercussion

You know what I mean...

Hula

I went to my 3rd Hula Lesson last night with Aunty Healani. The class is Hawaiian and Hula studies and of course Hula in the form of dance. It's a lot of fun and hard work. The gals in my class are nice and we are all learning together.

I came home to a quiet house last night. The two older kids were gone, Noah was sleeping and so was the Hubs.

I had trouble getting to sleep last night so I'm probably working on 3 hours of sleep right now and it's 4 am .

I get off at 12 today, So I think I can make Noah's game if I hurry along to the field right afterwards. Fingers crossed.

my poor little bloggy

I've mostly given up on my blog haven't I?

My new schedule doesn't really allow me the time to blog, I've switched more to facebook, it's a lot easier to blabber on there than it is on blogger.

Right now I'm in bed watching the funeral of a police officer who died senselessly in a drive by while he and his partner sat in their patrol car. Watching the funeral reminds me of John's funeral, because he was a police officer too. My heart breaks for the family left behind who didn't know they would never see, hubby, daddy, son, brother ever again.

Switching gears, tonight is my hula class with Aunty Healani, it's so much fun, I really enjoy it. She's the best teacher ever!!!

ok I had to turn the channel....it's just too much after hearing about the massacre at Fort Hood. I think it's time for a little nap before I head on over to Hula.