Lifes Like That

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.

I spend every day all day screening phone calls. My husband’s bank calls him at least four or five times a day and even though I have told them repeatedly that he is at work, they still won’t stop calling. So now I just look at the caller ID and don’t even bother to answer it. It has almost gotten as bad as all the adult acne remedies e-mails that I have been getting lately in my inbox. What is it going to take to get these people to stop?? Oh well for now I screen all these calls and hopefully one day they will give up. But if they don’t, I will keep up my payments on my caller ID so I at least don’t have to talk to them.

My husband gave me a nice surprise on Saturday. Normally after I get home from work on Saturday’s I have to make supper, feed the kids ad do the dishes. Well this past Saturday he bought supper and brought it home. And he even fed the kids. So all I had to do was come and eat to my little hearts content. And the best part?? It was from my favorite restaurant. KFC. Yay! So over the next two days I ate tons and tons of chicken and gravy. I ate so much that if I’m not careful I’ll have to start checking out some tretinoin products. But man…. it was good. I love little surprises like this and really hope he does it again in the very near future.

My husband and I have been together for almost 16 years now, and we are both starting to show our age. I have a lot of gray hair (which a box of dye can take care of) and he is losing his hair (which a natural hair loss treatment can take care of). But he seems to be bothered by these signs of growing older more than I am. Next month he will be turning 43 and even now when the kids mention his upcoming birthday he gets quite annoyed. I know we all have to get older and I accept that, but he certainly doesn’t. Man…. he is only turning 43 I don’t know what the problem is?!

Normally I don’t make any new year’s resolutions. Over the years I have found that even when I made them, I never kept them. But this year I have made one, and I am really trying to make it come true. No it’s nothing like losing weight or finding the best diet supplement to help me achieve this. It has to do with my income that I bring into the house. This year I would like to find enough work on the Internet so that by the time summer comes I will have enough money coming in the house to be able to quit my outside job. I have been applying at different companies (with limited success) to achieve this goal. I still have a few months to make this resolution come true. So I guess only time will tell.