Out of My Mind

So much fun, in fact, that Sebastian did not want to leave on Sunday!  I don’t really blame him, we had a really good time.  It was a weekend of firsts for him.  First camping trip (duh), first time fishing, first time going miniature golfing, first time in pedal boat. 

We took lots of pictures, of course, although there were a few times I really wished I had remembered to bring my camera along for an activity, but left it in the camper.  Like when I caught the 4 lb. big mouth bass, which totally pissed off the hubby since he only caught teeny tiny fishies.  Thankfully, my SIL had her camera and took a picture of me and my monster fish.  She said she is going to frame it for me.

I think the hubby’s pride was a little dinged up by the end of the weekend.  Not only did a catch a big fish, but I had to show Seb how to cast the fishing pole because hubby was having problems doing it (he broke one of my nephew’s bobbers by slamming it into the rocks!).  Then, I beat him at dice, twice and I got a hole in one at miniature golf, beating his score.  Should I mention that even Bubba beat his score on the second game.  Tee hee hee.

The only downside of the trip was that I got a nasty sunburn on Saturday, which still is quite painful.  It’s all around my neck and on my chest where my v-neck of my tee dips down and on the back of my calves.  And the tops of my ears.  Ouch!  It’s finally starting to lighten up a bit, but I still look kinda funny.

Anyway, here’s some pics from our trip

Me and bub

Bub’s first fish!!!

My little fisherman

Casting with Daddy.  I had to show him how to cast because the hubs was having some problems with it.  Just one more thing that irked him!

Fishing on our first day

Goofy Gus

Channeling Tiger Woods as he lines up his shot

Another putt putt picture

I just got done working my eleventh day in a row.  Phew!  I cannot even begin to describe how much I am looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow, even if it is only until 7 or 8.  Getting up at 4 am just sucks so friggin much. 

I have the next 4 days off.  We are going camping with the hub’s brother, his wife and their two kids.  Should be fun!  Sebastian has never been camping before and is very, very excited.  I know that his picky eating habits are going to make things interesting.  I have a feeling he’s going to be eating lots of peanut butter sandwhiches over the next few days.

I’m pretty excited about this weekend too.  It’ll be nice just to get away for a while.  And by no means will we be roughing it.  They have a super nice camper, so I will be sleeping in a bed.  If the boys want to sleep outside in a tent, well, more power to them.  That is just not me.

I have a ton of crap to do today to get everything ready, and I just don’t feel like doing a damn thing right now.  I have to do a couple loads of laundry, pack everything, do some shopping.  Meh.  It can all wait til later.  I need my nap.

I was informed today that I’m going to be on my own in the cash office tomorrow, unless there is a crisis.  Carol will sign me in, then that’s it.  All week, she’s been putting the tills in the registers, which takes about 25 minutes or so while I do everything else.  And I still am pushing it with the time.  I don’t know if I’m going to be able to get everything done so that I can get out of there by 8:45 so the hubby can leave for work by 9.  I’m doing better each day, but I’m still nowhere near as fast as Carol is. 

She also told me that she’s probably not going to come in on Tuesday, the day I go back to work after our little camping vacation.  I can’t blame her.  At that point, she will have worked 24 days in a row, so the poor chick needs a day off.  But the time thing scares me.  I’m very confident that I can do the work, I just don’t know that I can do it quick enough.  I guess we’ll see how tomorrow goes.

I finally got around to linking to all the other cool momma blogs that I read.  I admit that I am not a daily reader and very rarely (if ever) comment, but it’s nice to have the blogs that I check out on a semi-regular basis all lined up in a nice little row.

Last night was another 4 hours of sleep night.  I’m now at around 20 hours of sleep for 5 nights.  Oh, how this sucks.  I just took an hour or so nap on the couch while Sebastian watched PBS.  And I was out.  Usually, I just kind of doze a little bit, but I was completely zonked for about an hour there.  What a good mom am I.

I did hear at work today that we might have to start coming in at 5:30 as opposed to 5 like we are now.  While the extra half hour of sleep will be nice, I don’t know how I’m going to be able to get everything done by 8:30 during the week.  This could get interesting.  I did do a lot better in the cash office today.  And, that was with the morning manager not showing up, so we were nearly a half hour behind schedule as it was.  I just need the repetition, doing it over and over so that it gets stuck in my head and stays there. 

The hubby started his new job yesterday.  Already, we’ve run into a few problems.  When he was hired, he was told that his schedule would be Monday-Friday, 10am-8pm.  I was lucky that they are willing to work around that at Lowe’s, letting me come in from 5am-8:45am during the week.  But, apparently they forgot to tell the hubby that he was supposed to be coming in from 7:30-5:30 for his first two weeks.  Now I’m kind of locked into that schedule at work, so hubs had to tell them he can’t do the earlier schedule due to childcare issues since he wasn’t informed of the earlier schedule when they hired him.

He’s very confident he can do the job, but he’s said it’s going to be boring.  And the site where he will be working is very dirty and not in the greatest neighborhood.  Hopefully, they’ll promote him in six months like they talked about.  It’s really going to suck if I have to hear him complain about another job that he can’t stand. 

Today is an absolutely wonderful day!  The hubby starts his new job, it’s only a little after 9 in the morning and I am already done with work for the day and it is promising to be a truly gorgeous day outside.  If only every day was like this!

Things are going well so far working in the cash office.  The woman training me says I’m doing great, but I just need to get faster.  She’s too nice to tell me to stop making all the stupid mistakes.  She had to come in and enter in some of the bags for me in order to be done with everything before ATS came today.  Thankfully, the only time I should be alone is on the weekends and the deposit doesn’t get picked up until a little later on those days.  It’s not like it’s a totally new concept to me, I did the same thing when I worked at TRU, but it’s just a matter of learning the new system and all the many, many, steps in the process.

I do have to say that I am very much enjoying that there are no more closing shifts for me.  And not having to deal with any customers has been wonderful.  Waking up so freaking early kinda sucks, but being done with your workday when most people are just getting started with theirs is pretty cool.  I just hope my body starts adjusting soon!  I’m so used to closing all the time that I’ve been having a really hard time falling asleep at night before midnight, which completely sucks.  In the last four nights, I’ve only slept for a total of 16 hours.  I’m pretty pooped right now.  So if this post makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, that’s why.  Sleep deprivation makes me a little loopy.  And like the bad mom that I am, I’m going to doze off on the couch for a bit while my kid watches some PBS.

Where, oh where to begin…

Good news first.  The hubby has not one, but two job interviews today.  Both seem promising, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed.  I’m still working at Lowe’s, still not loving it, but they seem to be loving me.  They asked me to become a permanent employee, no longer just a seasonal one, and if I’d like to start working in the cash office on the weekends.  So, they must like and trust me, right?  I’ll be working every weekend, and have to go in at 5 am on Saturdays and 7 am on Sundays and work until I’m done.  It shouldn’t be too bad.  I did the same thing while working for Toys R Us, so it’ll just be a matter of learning a new system. And I was told that I could keep my evenings during the week, so if DH does land one of those jobs, I’ll still be able to work nights.

My mom, sister and little nephew Lucas are going to come out to visit us either tomorrow or Thursday, which will be nice.  My mom mentioned going out to lunch, so I’m assuming we’ll be going to the Olive Garden since we all love the place.  Sebastian will be thrilled.  Poor kids been asking to go there for months now.

There is a bit of bad news.  We found out today that my Mother-in-law is in the hospital again.  She has pneumonia.  As per usual, the father-in-law did not call and we had to find out from our sister-in-law.  Depending on how she’s doing, we may be taking a trip down there sometime this week.  Unfortunately, this is a pretty common occurance with mom.  She seemed fine when we saw her for the fourth of July, so hopefully, they caught it quickly and she doesn’t become critical like she has so many times in the past.

I seem to be packing on the pounds.   I had managed to lose about 5 during my first six weeks of working, but have gained them and two more back in the last month.  Food is definitely my crutch when I’m feeling stressed and depressed.  I keep saying that I’m going to start walking or doing my ball again, but I never do.  Gotta work on that.

Sebastian is turning into a little fish.  We’ve been going to the beach or pool a couple times a week and he is just loving it.  And while I sometimes feel like an orca in my black and white suit, I have to admit that I’m enjoying being in the water again. 

So, that’s about it I guess.  Hopefully, I’ll have some good news to post in the next few days, either about the hubby’s job or my mother-in-laws health.