Long, but wonderful
......thats how my day was. I got my wi-fi router in the mail and it set up with flying colors. now i can use my laptop anywhere inside or outside the house and be able to get online with no cords. You dont know how happy this makes e, not to be tied/chained to a desk all day!!! this enables me to work in any room of the house, in the yard...I even used it today at my neighbors.
Speaking of which, i'm house sitting. They went to Cape Cod for the holiday, to go on their friends boat, and asked us to house-sit. That meant a lot to me because they moved in about 3 weeks after we did, and we only know them now for about 2 mos, that shows a lot of trust. I guess she should trust me though, when she signed her son Joey, up for school, she couldnt get aftercare for him (he's 8) and so I offered to let the bus drop him here after school. She gets off about an hour after that, so it's not so bad. Her son is a little, umm how should I put this...special? He's intensly into YuGiOh (spelling?) and cartoon network, he dresses like a power ranger in his spare time (i thought power rangers were outdated?) and spider man, depending on how he feels. He's very precocious and spoiled, extremlely good looking, and has his heads in the cloud. I called him peter pan the other day and Joe almost peed on hisself laughing. Jessica and him (joey) actually look like brother and sister.
So the house sitting consists of feeding and watering, the dog, three tropical birds (one of which sways back and forth like stevie wonder, the other screams at the top of his lungs constantly and the third scream "what?" over and over again, two guinie pigs, and a hamster. Seems like a lot, but it's not really and jessica enjoys doing it. The other responsibility is the oh-so-terrible task of swimming in their beautiful inground pool. Ha...I stayed in that pool almost 6 hours...my toes and fingers looked like raisins. Dont know if i ever mentioned how much I love swimming...I used to love the ocean, until I started going to the lake, then i fell in love with the lake...I love floating and swiming, and the ocean has such fluctuating temps, and lots of sea creatures that could really screw up your day, particularly stingers, which after seeing my cousins leg, I'd rather not experience. Anyway, lakes and pools...thats my thing..celeste used to tell me i was worse than the kids, she used to have to ask me to get out the water more than them....I cant wait till I can get a pool put in. When I do, I'm going to have a once a year women's retreat for some of my female friends and some of the female associates I've worked/work with.
I plan on sleeping late tomorrow...making a nice breakfast for me and Joe and spend the whole day in the pool. Jess is leaving with Joes cousin MeeMee to go to the lake...(yeah, this really wasn't the weekend for punishment, but MeeMee is going to do her hair for school, so if she goes with her and they decide to go to the lake, Jess has to go, and I can't ake MeeMee put her on punishment...I mean I could, but it would make everyone miserable and I wouldnt even be there.) So i think Joe's going to move her punishment to next weekend, only jess doesnt know it yet. wicked.
I did some canning yesterday and today, I made Pear-Applesauce, about 20 pears and 2 bags of apples and only got 4 quarts of it, which jessica could wipe out in a week, except i threatened her with death. (wondering if I only got 4 quarts cause she was already in it...hmmm...something to think about, she's a sneaky lil wench) Her, Pharoah, Tyquan and Eli used to eat it as fast as I could make it, there wasn't even a point to canning it, it would be gone so soon...I eventually just wound up putting it in the fridge instead of going thru the whole canning process.
Today we made about 12 containers of homemade salsa, fresh tomatoes, onions, cilantro, jalepeno's....it's going to be delish when winter gets here to taste those summer tomatoes.
Speaking of which, i'm house sitting. They went to Cape Cod for the holiday, to go on their friends boat, and asked us to house-sit. That meant a lot to me because they moved in about 3 weeks after we did, and we only know them now for about 2 mos, that shows a lot of trust. I guess she should trust me though, when she signed her son Joey, up for school, she couldnt get aftercare for him (he's 8) and so I offered to let the bus drop him here after school. She gets off about an hour after that, so it's not so bad. Her son is a little, umm how should I put this...special? He's intensly into YuGiOh (spelling?) and cartoon network, he dresses like a power ranger in his spare time (i thought power rangers were outdated?) and spider man, depending on how he feels. He's very precocious and spoiled, extremlely good looking, and has his heads in the cloud. I called him peter pan the other day and Joe almost peed on hisself laughing. Jessica and him (joey) actually look like brother and sister.
So the house sitting consists of feeding and watering, the dog, three tropical birds (one of which sways back and forth like stevie wonder, the other screams at the top of his lungs constantly and the third scream "what?" over and over again, two guinie pigs, and a hamster. Seems like a lot, but it's not really and jessica enjoys doing it. The other responsibility is the oh-so-terrible task of swimming in their beautiful inground pool. Ha...I stayed in that pool almost 6 hours...my toes and fingers looked like raisins. Dont know if i ever mentioned how much I love swimming...I used to love the ocean, until I started going to the lake, then i fell in love with the lake...I love floating and swiming, and the ocean has such fluctuating temps, and lots of sea creatures that could really screw up your day, particularly stingers, which after seeing my cousins leg, I'd rather not experience. Anyway, lakes and pools...thats my thing..celeste used to tell me i was worse than the kids, she used to have to ask me to get out the water more than them....I cant wait till I can get a pool put in. When I do, I'm going to have a once a year women's retreat for some of my female friends and some of the female associates I've worked/work with.
I plan on sleeping late tomorrow...making a nice breakfast for me and Joe and spend the whole day in the pool. Jess is leaving with Joes cousin MeeMee to go to the lake...(yeah, this really wasn't the weekend for punishment, but MeeMee is going to do her hair for school, so if she goes with her and they decide to go to the lake, Jess has to go, and I can't ake MeeMee put her on punishment...I mean I could, but it would make everyone miserable and I wouldnt even be there.) So i think Joe's going to move her punishment to next weekend, only jess doesnt know it yet. wicked.
I did some canning yesterday and today, I made Pear-Applesauce, about 20 pears and 2 bags of apples and only got 4 quarts of it, which jessica could wipe out in a week, except i threatened her with death. (wondering if I only got 4 quarts cause she was already in it...hmmm...something to think about, she's a sneaky lil wench) Her, Pharoah, Tyquan and Eli used to eat it as fast as I could make it, there wasn't even a point to canning it, it would be gone so soon...I eventually just wound up putting it in the fridge instead of going thru the whole canning process.
Today we made about 12 containers of homemade salsa, fresh tomatoes, onions, cilantro, jalepeno's....it's going to be delish when winter gets here to taste those summer tomatoes.
