Friday, September 28, 2007

Where is our church body headed??

I was at a funeral today and the pastor intoduced himself by his first name but not as Pastor ______. There was now hymns played and he did not wear his vestments. My question is why???

Tomorrow we have to call the bowling alley for Repete and register him for bowling and Truckerman will be registering Pete for curling. They are pretty excited over the idea of being in a group again.

The one LCC church in our area has a group for young children from grades 1 thru 6 on tuesday evenings, so we signed the boys up for that. They went this week and really enjoyed themselves. Unfortunately they have had a couple of snags and have to put everything on pause for a couple of weeks to straighten them out.

Yesterday we received our new COSTCO cards in the mail from Truckerman's boss. SWEET!!! Tonight after supper we all piled into the car and headed there to do some shoppin'!!! There are some great deals to be had but remembering prices of other stores in very important. I did find a few items that worked out to be more there then at Superstore. I will not be needing toilet paper and kleenex for some time now. LOL I did find a great deal on McCain juice boxes. Normal price that I was getting it at was about $3.50 a box of 10, at COSTCO it was $9.99 for 4 boxes of 10. AWESOME!!!! Bread at COSTCO is super cheap too. The brand I was buying is about $2 more at home then here. That is a huge deal for me. Pudding on the other had I can get No Name for cheaper so I'll just get that at Superstore. Of of the only perks of being in the city. The other perk...cheaper gas!!! Then there is nothing else.

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Birthday cakes

Wow is high speed ever fast!!!! We had dial up for so long that high speed is a real dream!!

Yesterday we had a little birthday party for Repete. We had had one before we moved so he could see his friends before we left and this is the cake I made for him. Yes I know, it is missing headlights and tires. The kids didn't care and I was frustrated with the icing.

The reason for the car and the 29 is Repete is in love with the NASCAR #29. Truckerman got the boys into NASCAR that everything has to be NASCAR. We have started decorating their room in NASCAR.

This is the cake that I made yesterday for the party. Thank goodness for computers and printers or the #'s would not have turned out so nice. We went to the park and then afterwards Truckerman's cousin (Susie), her son and fiance came for supper and her son stayed for a sleepover.
Susie's son went to church with us and he went to Sunday School and loved it. I was thinking that he could come with us on a regular basis if it is okay with his mom. She was happy to hear that he enjoyed himself. Maybe she will start coming. That would be nice.

Update on the house. The people that were causing us so much grief realized that we were not budging and asked if we would accept the old offer again with an extension on the inspection and that they would sign off on it. We should have made them sweat it out for a day or two but we didn't and we gave them the extension. So the house is pending on them selling their house.

We sold our piano because we did not have a place to put it so that is a load off of my mind. So now we only have a couple of things left to put into storage. The nice thing is a friend offered us his truck to use instead of us taking our truck there and spending all of the gas using 2 vehicles of ours.

On the work front things are going well and I like working at the north location much better than downtown. The manager and the full time attendant are great and they are more my type of people. In the 3 days that I have been there I have learned more then the 2 weeks I was downtown. Plus they are not as sticky about the dress code there. I am aloud to wear my sweater instead of my suit jacket. :-) YIPEE!! I hate wearing the jacket, I only have to wear it and my name tag at funerals. HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY!!!! Things are going to work out well.

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Crazy time

Lets update you all on my life for the last 3 weeks.

We moved to the big city (this you all know). I am having trouble with the constant noise that is all around me all the time (I miss the quiet of small town). People actually think I am crazy when I say that there is a constant noise because they don't hear it. I don't like traffic and I really don't like to drive in it. But so far I haven't had an accident so that is a really good thing. The boys like their school and it is only 5 blocks from here so Truckerman walks them to and from everyday. Truckerman is now in University and is doing well. He is not so thrilled about the Greek class but is starting to catch on to things. Work has its moments. Things did not start out in the normal fashion there like it normally does so I have been running around like a chicken with my head cut off. Tomorrow I will be going to our north location to start out there. That is where I will be working from now on but will help out down town as needed. I will miss working everyday with some of the guys that are there. We had a buyer for our house and now there are trying to make us lower the price or back out of the deal. We now have our lawyer involved and the realty board is going to get involved as well. LOVELY!!!! Why these things happen to us is unknown to me but it really causes me a big headache that I really don't need at the moment. There are potential buyers that seem interested but I am not holding breath. Today is Repete's birthday and he told my mom that he still feels young and not any older. LOL Funny kid!! We are having a couple kids over to the park for a couple of hours to play and have cake. It will be a nice time for him.

I will finish updates another day I am tired and can't think straight.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

I am back

We are here and almost finished moving in. We still have boxes in each of the rooms that need to get put away still except the kitchen. The essentials are out and the rest is slowly getting done.

Truckerman is finding school not too bad and the boys like their school and are making friends. I am not liking the drive to and from work because of the traffic but the job is good. I enjoy everyone that I am working with. Unfortunately I will only be there for a few more days and then I will be going up to their north location. There will only be a couple of us up there and they do not embalm at that location and I really enjoy doing that part of the business. I will have to have a good talk with my boss in the next couple of days about things.

Because the bosses at work implemented a new dress code starting this week they gave me a clothing allowance and sent one of the ladies with me to go shopping. I was able to get a couple suits and a couple pairs of shoes and some new shirts. Then on my own I bought another pair of pants to go with the one suit jacket. I am not used to having to dress up everyday. I really can't wait to get home and change into more cumfy clothing. I have learned to leave a white blouse and a black jacket at work and if I am wearing something other then black or grey slacks to work to have them on hand as well. This is just in case they decide at the last minute to send me on a funeral. That happened to me yesterday. What fun!!!

Tonight Truckermans cousin Susie and her son came over and we all (them, Pete, Repete, and myself) went to the farmers market. There were a few nice things there but honestly I could buy things cheaper elsewhere. I am going to have to go to the farmers market downtown another day (it runs all year long).