Sharing Some Pictures

I wanted to share some pictures since I figured out how to take pictures with my webcam on my laptop. I only know how to take pics with my webcam on myspace. Enjoy!

Last Friday, I posted a blog about buying a new plant. Well, here's a picture of my plant:


Yesterday, I blogged about buying two new plastic pots. I took a picture of my new pots. For now, I have my plants sitting in them, they aren't planted in the pots yet. The bigger pot will house two plants, one is a cutting sitting in water.

Rookie Flyer

For as long as Shannon and I have known each other, we never had to fly in an airplane. We have both flown in an airplane before, however, it's been several years! I think the last time I had to fly was in 1997.

Shannon told the story of his experience going through security on the way home, and it sounded like he raised a ton of red flags with TSA! It was funny to hear because he sounded like a "rookie flyer." First, he put his laptop bag on the conveyor belt at the security checkpoint and the TSA agent asked him about having a lock on the bag. He asked if he needed one and she said that there are "TSA approved" locks that he can buy. He asked her if it was required that he have on because "it's not like it's going to blow open, right?" I guess she kind of raised her eye brows at that but didn't say anything. Then he asked her how he can get to Gate A (he was at Gate C). She asked him why and he told her that he had some friends he wanted to meet up with. As he's telling us the story, I am thinking he must be raising all these red flags with her, he's saying all the things a possible terrorist could say! LOL I am just glad he didn't say the B-O-M-B word in an airport! I can't imagine what the would have done to him then... After he asked her about how to get to Gate A, that's when she pulled him aside to say that he would need additional screening! LOL

He's Home Day 1

Shannon arrived home this morning around 2:30 AM! I was able to track his flight online and I saw that it was delayed. Both flights were delayed by at least an hour or more. He had to wait around at least 2 hours for his connecting flight home. I am just glad he got home okay. I woke up when he got home, since I am still sick and my dripping nose would wake me up throughout the night. We cuddled and talked for a bit before we both realized he needed to go to sleep!

Kyle woke up this morning around 7 AM and Shannon slept in a bit. We had a nice quiet day spending time with each other. I did Shannon's laundry today since I had some things to wash too. He has to go back to work on Monday and will stay on property for the week. At least this time he will be in another city! While he's there, he hopes to look at apartments and pick up rental applications.

We had to go grocery shopping today since we were almost out of food and other things. Kyle rode in the booster seat for the first time and he seemed okay with it. It's not as sturdy as the car seat so he would lean over to one side to look out the window and the booster seat would lean to one side too.

We ended up getting plenty of food! I did manage to make it out of the store without buying candy! I know for sure that if I buy it, I will eat it, and the end result shows up on my face in a few days! I did, however, buy snack foods! Every once in awhile I need snacks to munch on! I picked up plastic planter pots for two of my plants, I will pick up soil on our next trip. We also needed cotton balls, paper towels, and toilet paper. Even before we left, I warned Shannon that this trip will be a big one! I had a lot of things on my list that we needed, so I knew that the total would be extra $$$! We are no longer on food stamps, so it hurts a little. I do plan on re-applying for food stamps once we get moved in to our own place.

Shannon and I realized that 12 days was way too long to be away from home. I could tell that he got home sick.

The 12th Day

Shannon is coming home tonight! He's already at the airport and waiting for his flight later this evening. We're hoping his flights aren't canceled due to weather! It's been snowing, raining, and icy all over! This has been a long 12 days away from each other!

Kyle has missed every day of school this week due to weather and the school closing the schools in the district. I can tell he's getting cabin fever and wanting to get out there and play. I am just glad he's able to play with other kids at preschool.

Kyle seems to be better. He's still coughing here and there. Meanwhile, I caught what he has/had. My throat hurts and can make me cough. My nose is also runny or stuffy here and there. I've been wanting to sleep during the day, so instead, I take little naps when I can.

It's been raining throughout the day. There are flood warnings in surrounding counties. There was a mix of ice, snow, and rain last night. The weather has been wild this week.

She went through my trash!?

I am a little upset! My MIL confronted me this afternoon and said, "If you have anything that is of use to anyone else, you can add it to the box." Meaning she keeps a box of things she plans on giving away to charity. I was a little confused as to what she was referring to, but then I had to think back to what I threw away. I ended up throwing away some clothes and things I don't use, only because I don't want to have as much to pack when we move! I do recall that I threw away 2 pajama tops that have HOLES in them and are very old. They are OLD because my parents bought them at a thrift store YEARS ago! I have had these tops for YEARS, they were worn out and were way past their prime. I wanted to make more room and have less clothes to pack. I just wanted less things. I also threw away a few tops that she gave me, but they had stains and grease stains on them that aren't coming out. The last thing I can remember that I threw away was an old purse that has a broken zipper!

Why is it HER business what I throw away? Is it any one's business what I throw away?

It's embarrassing to know that she went through my trash. What if I had some personal items in there that I don't want anyone else to see?

No School Again

There's hasn't been any new snow fall. It did rain here and there today. It's supposed to rain tomorrow as well. I don't think we'll be getting anymore snow until the weekend.

We just received a call that there is no school tomorrow! Surprise, surprise! I have a feeling there won't be school on Friday either. Either way, I am kind of glad because Kyle is still sick. He woke up this morning at around 2:45 AM, but that's only because he fell asleep at about 7:45 PM! He's been coughing and still have a running nose. He also felt "warmer than usual" to the touch, but I am not sure if it was a fever. I have him on cough medicine today.

Last night, I placed another order on Amazon and my order came to $0!!! I saved up enough gift cards to pay for the order. I ended up buying another workout video and coconut oil. I plan on using the coconut oil for my hair and skin. It's supposed to be really good for your scalp, softening your hair, and making it more healthy. I can also use coconut oil as body lotion and it's good for those with eczema! Another use for coconut oil is as deodorant, I am curious to see how that works. I bought a new workout video because I need a little change from my current workouts. Not that I don't like my current workouts, I just need a little change here and there.

I also found Winsor Pilates workout videos on youtube! They are entire workouts! So I plan on going back to Pilates here and there!

Snow and No School

We had plenty of snow over the weekend, we got about 8 inches. They canceled school for Monday and all the city, state, and county offices are closed as well. There are a few more snow storms in the forecast for this week! School may be canceled this whole week, from the looks of it.

Kyle is sick. All day yesterday he had the sniffles, sneezing, and stuffy nose. A few hours after he fell asleep last night, he woke up to coughing and coughing up liquid. I could hear it when he tried to swallow that it wanted to come back up! He had to struggle just to swallow.

I finally got a little more insight from Shannon, regarding his training. From what he was telling me, his training isn't anything special. I just wasn't seeing the point of him being out of state to do "on the job" training! He wasn't doing any special corporate training or specific training that needed to be done only in Kansas City. He's not in any meetings or training courses with corporate people either. The other new managers are tired of working 10 hours a day cleaning rooms. All the training they got was watching an instructional video and follow a check list on cleaning a room. There is also one manager saying he wants to quit once he gets back to North Carolina. It just sounds like all this "training" could have been done close to home, instead of spending hundreds of dollars per manager to fly them out there AND keeping them from their families for 12 days!!! Not only that, they had them work on Saturday, so they only had ONE day off last week!!!!

Shannon was able to get a month off from school. This will give him one less thing to worry about while he is training and we are finding a place/moving.