They told me the couch would be delivered between 9 and 11. Well, now it’s 11:00 and I see no delivery truck. Hmmmm. So, here I am with poor little John who has a fever and doesn’t feel good, feeding him juice and watching Cars. With no couch, yet.
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I knew that Ryan was a pretty laid back guy, but when I called him from the furniture store and asked if he cared if I bought a new couch on Wednesday, his answer to me was, “As long as I don’t have to haul it.” He didn’t really care what color, what fabric, etc. I asked if he wanted to go and see them, and he said he could if I wanted him to, but that he trusts me. So, basically, as long as I don’t ask him to move it for me, I guess he’s ok with whatever I buy! (I must say that the couch purchase was not totally out of the blue, I had been talking about it and planning it for weeks, and we already knew it was in the budget, so it wasn’t a huge surprise.)
And what to do with the old couch? I thought my sister could use it, as her couch has recently bitten the dust, but it turns out it wouldn’t work for her. So, I posted it on freecycle, and had 4 people within the hour who wanted and would be willing to pick up the old couch. I went with the lady who said she could pick it up that very afternoon. Then when a friend was over to drop off her kids, I asked if she could help me move the two sectional pieces to the front porch. Man, that was hard! I don’t know how they got them in here. No wonder Ryan didn’t want to move them. Anyway, we only scratched the floor in one place, and we did manage to get them out onto the porch, so when the lady and her son came to pick them up, we just had to carry them out to the trailer, and she was loaded up in 15 minutes!
So, I was able to vacuum the carpet, and clean the walls and even moved the piano from one wall to the other—-now that thing is heavy! So, today the couches should arrive, and I just hope I love them as much in my home as I did in the showroom.
I want a cookie. I don’t know where this craving is coming from, but when I came home from rehearsal last night I was tired and hungry and wanted a cookie. I didn’t have one. I don’t think we even have any cookies in the house, even. It’s been 3 weeks since I gave up sugar, and the cravings have really gone away. Until this cookie thing. I don’t want to eat a cookie. I want to keep on keeping off sugar. I’m actually quite proud of myself and I’ve even lost almost 5 pounds. I don’t want to eat a cookie. I don’t want to WANT to eat a cookie. I know I can make myself not EAT a cookie, but How do I make myself not WANT a cookie?
Deep breathing, I guess. I’ve made pizza for the kids for lunch, so I’ll go eat that (healthy alternative–not so much) and hope it kills my cookie craving. If that doesn’t work, I’ll sip my diet coke, then maybe have some popcorn. If I’m still having a craving I could always break out asugar free pudding snack. Wish me luck.
My little boy can sit for what seems like hours just making car sounds. Whether he has an actual car or not. Wow!
Today was a glorious day! I think it reached 70 degrees here. My crocuses are blooming, the tulips and the daffodils are pushing their little green leaves up, and I really need to get out there and weed. Are you enjoying the spring weather?
True to my promise, today I cleaned out the mudroom. I didn’t get to the counter yet, but I got all the gloves and hats put away, all the boots went downstairs, all the shoes that fit no one put away, and the extra shoes that aren’t being worn are now on their way to bedroom closets. I also threw away tons of crap, filled an extremely large garbage bag with stuff for D.I., and took out all the coats and hung them in the closet. The floor, although not mopped, was thoroughly vacuumed. It looks about a hundred percent better in there, and hopefully now I won’t be tripping on backpacks and coats all over the floor.
It’s 7:15 and my kids are playing happily OUTSIDE! The trampoline is back up (we took it down for the winter) and the kids are playing on the playground. Oh, the joy of spring. Now I need to make a canopy for the playground. I took the measurements today and I’ll start working on it tomorrow. Or the next day.
It’s daylight savings time, and that means that not only am I tired, but I’m confused. My computer, the clock in the car and most of my watches say it’s 2:20, while the kitchen clock and the watch I’m wearing say it’s 3:20. It’s enough to make one miss soccer practice entirely (I wish). But besides losing an hour of sleep, daylight savings time reminds me that it’s time to go through the pile of stuff that is winter outerwear around here. I think every person has at least 2 coats, a pair or two of boot, several gloves, a few scarves and multiple layers of sweatshirts. All of these items are in a heap on the mudroom floor. Oh, there are the token few that have been hung up, and most of the shoes end up in the shoe basket, but the majority is just an unorganized mess. So, it’s my job to discard the coats that are either too small or have broken zippers, and put away nicely the ones that can be saved for next year. I’m sure once I get everything put nicely away, we’ll have another big snowstorm, however, so I’m not rushing over to do it right this minute.
Last night’s Amazing Race? Wow.
I don’t know if Ryan can carry on without his favorite team.
Today was the last day of a certain radio contest in which they give away a set of 4 Disneyland Hopper Passes to the winner. The winner who is caller 19 when they play the song of the day. Well, I’ve been glued to the radio for the past three weeks and have only been a measly “caller 4” or something like that.  Today it was ringing, and when he answered it he asked how are you doing, fine, etc. Then asked if I had ever kissed my brother.
What? Yes, actually, I have.
No, I mean really kissed your brother, like slipped him some tongue, the guy says.
Well, no, that I have not done.
Well, this is going to feel as bad as kissing your brother, because you are caller 18.
Nooooooooo!
But, since today is get over it day (see previous post), I will have to let it go, and not stress about the fact that I was this close to taking my family to Disneyland.
Did you know today (Friday the 9th of March) is National Get over it day? Well, it is. so, if you’ve been holding a grudge, offended by someone or something, it’s time to get over it. (Especially if it’s something I did–you need to just forgive me and get over it.)
So, let it go. Breathe in, Breathe out. Get over it.
I didn’t go to aerobics this morning because I’m just barely getting over that monster cold. It has nothing to do with the fact that Kohl’s sent me a 30% off coupon good on my entire purchase that starts today. Ok, it may have had something to do with that, but the sick excuse still stands. So, after dropping John off at preschool, I headed to Kohl’s to see what I could find. I found some GREAT clearance items, especially in shoes. I bought the cutest boots in “Megan pink” (it really says that on the box) for the girls. They are in Megan’s size, but I’m sure she’ll hate them because, after all, they are boots, and they are pink. But I have two more girls coming up after her, and for $11.00 minus 30%, that would make them….somewhere around $7. Wow!
In wandering around the store I found a few other things to make my bargain happy self smile. I was just heading to the kids’ clearance racks, when the lights started to flicker. Interesting. I’ll just continue looking at these two red shirts to see which one I like better; I mean at $7.99 minus 30%, I could probably get both, but–Yep, the lights came back on, and I continued on my way. Then they went out again for about 5 seconds. No worries, they came back on. Then they went out again, and after about 20 seconds, a nice Kohl’s employee comes by telling us all to go to the front of the store, please. What? But I’m not done shopping. I was just going to see if there were– “Please, everyone, go to the front of the store.” Darn.
So, they herd all these women to the front of the store (there are never any men shopping there, I wonder why? Oh, yeah–they all must have jobs or hate shopping or something like that), and the cashier is franticly checking someone out. Apparently they have a few minutes of computer power when the power goes out and they can ring a few lucky people out. But alas, the computer also went dead. Nina, the sweet sales girl told us that because of all the new businesses opening up around there (in the Meadows in American Fork), every time a store opens up they usually have some kind of a power outage. Usually, she explained, it comes back in about 5 minutes. So, we could put our stuff on hold and come back later, or we could just wait. Well, I’m not in a huge hurry, so I just wait. After all, I had all my stuff spread out on the counter ready to check out. The lady behind me said, “I’m just glad I don’t have my kids here. They’d go crazy.” Amen, sister. That’s why we do this without kids. One poor lady didn’t have it so lucky. She’s pushing a double cart with two kids in it, plus she was wearing what looked like a tiny baby in a sling. How can she even push the cart with that thing on?
Anyway, I digress. After about 8 minutes, they told us that the manager decided to close the store. We all had to leave our precious items and come back at some later time, but for our trouble, nice Nina would give us all an additional 15% off. Wow! I guess I can come back later for 15% off.
When I left, I found that it wasn’t just their store that was out of power. Even though Smith’s (across the street) had power (so I could buy my Cheerios for 50 cents a box), all the lights along State Street in American Fork were out. So, whatever construction was going on, they must have really hit something big.
So, have you experienced a power outage while shopping before?
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