Lifes Like That

For the past year I have been working every weekend. Well, I’ve gotten tired of doing that. So next weekend will be my last weekend of working. I still plan to continue to work there on Tuesday and Thursday nights. But after next weekend, the weekends will once be mine to call my own. I will miss my regular customers that I wait on every weekend, but I really do think it’s time to make a change. So only two more weekend shifts to go and then I’m done. I can’t wait!

My son absolutely loves to play video games. Right now he has a Playstation 3 system, a DS gaming system and plays games on the computer. But the one system that he doesn’t have that he has been asking for, for over three years is a xbox 360 system. I personally don’t think that he needs another gaming system, but his father has decided that he is going to purchase him one for a grading present. I have a hard time getting this child to do anything else besides playing games, I can just imagine the trouble I will have if he gets this new system. Oh well, kids will be kids right?!

Since September I have had the same shifts at my outside job. I work every Tuesday and Thursday evening and I work every Saturday and Sunday breakfast shift. Although I absolutely love my job, I am getting really tired of working every weekend. So I have decided to cut back my hours at my job. Yesterday I went into work and discussed this with my boss. So it’s official in two weeks time, my hours will be greatly reduced and I will only be working on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Yes, this means less income for me, but at this point in my life, I really don’t care. I just need the break.

This year our government decided to give us Canadians a little tax bonus. If you bought any home improvement products over the past year, you will be able to claim these expenses on your taxes. Yesterday was the final day to take advantage of this tax credit. So my husband and I went out and did some home improvement buying. Among other things we bought a very nice lighting fixture. So with this purchase as well as the others we made throughout the year, we should see a pretty decent tax break this year. Now all I have to do is find all the receipts so I can get my home improvement tax credit this year.

So there is only two weeks until Valentine’s day which also means that my husband has only two weeks to his birthday as well. Yes, he is a Valentine’s baby. Every year I try to do something special for him as both days are the same one. This year I’ve decided to surprise him with Davidoff cigars. He likes a good cigar every once and a while so I thought this would be perfect for him. Of course I’ll get him other stuff as well, but this will be his treat for this year. Now I just hope they arrive in time for the big day.

So how was your weekend?? Mine was pretty boring. The reason for this boredom is because for once I wasn’t busy at work and the days just seem to drag on. We have a new waitress where I work and it was left up to me to train her. That meant that on a really not busy day (Saturday) there was two of us working, so there wasn’t much work for either one of us that day. And on Sunday there was three of us out front, so that meant even less work for all of us. It was as boring as if I was checking out insurance online. Hopefully I won’t have to train her much longer and can have my regular shifts back to myself.

This morning for the first time in seven years I did not drive my kids to the bus stop. My husband and I felt that our daughter should start having more responsibilities so we allowed her to walk her brother to his bus stop this morning. Then she came home, got ready for school and walked herself to the bus stop. This was really weird for me. But she is almost at the age where by law she can babysit her brother, so we decided to test her out and see how she does with this little bit of responsibility. She did very well so I guess from now on I will not be driving them to the bus stop but will let them head out on their own.

Do you all know what I realized today??? I do the same thing every day. I get the kids ready for school, spend a couple of hours in the Internet (sometimes looking up top rated wrinkle creams), do my housework, spend a couple of more hours on the computer, get the kids from the bus stop, make supper, watch a little bit of TV and then going to bed. Day in and day out (except for weekends) this is what I do. No wonder I’m bored and a little depressed these days. I really wish I could find something different to do. Maybe if I did, I wouldn’t feel as lousy as I do these days.