Rain please don’t go.  First because I LOVE rain.  Ya know I was thinking about that the other day, my favorite flower is a Sunflower.  LOVE how they look, LOVE that they face whichever way the sun is.  They are just pretty and awesome, but I LOVE gloomy rainy days.

We have had rain for the last 2 days and it has been great, my garden is getting watered.  If it doesn’t stop though I may have to go out and get some women’s rain boots. I mostly wear flip flops and those are no fun in the rain.  I hate getting my feet wet.  I probably won’t need them though, it never seems to rain for very long here in Virginia.  Oh well, I enjoyed it while it lasted!  :-)

I am so counting down the days until school starts.  It is only 10 days away, holy crap!  Earlier in the week I made some book bags for me, Tony and Nicki.  It took me about 2 days.  Thankfully Tony had off so I was able to concentrate on it.  Here are some pictures:

I made a computer/laptop sleeve to match my book bag.  The top picture is my bag, then Nicki’s and then Tony’s.  I think I may make one more bag for myself.  I have 3 classes that I actually have to be in school for, the other one is an e-learning course (online).  Two of the three classes I have on the same day and the other one is on a day with no other classes.  So I would like to have a bag for my books for just that class, and then the other bag for the books for the 2 classes I have on the same days.  Does that make sense.

So some days I wish, well most days I wish we lived close to family.  Mostly because I miss them, I wish my kids had a closer relationship with them.  And a small part of me wishes to be close so they could watch my kids.  I say small because I don’t like to be away from them very often or for very long.  Whenever I go to the store or to the gym or well anywhere alone, I can’t wait to get back to them.  Here’s the thing, Tony and I have not been out alone in over 3 yrs.  Well actually that is not totally accurate.  We went to a midnight showing of Dinner for Schmucks 2 weeks ago.  It was late enough at night that the kids were asleep, except for Nicki.  So she sort of babysat.  But we were gone for 2 hours and we sat in the dark watching a movie.  It was nice, don’t get me wrong but I wish we could have an overnight adventure somewhere or a weekend alone.  I posted on Facebook about how I missed being able to just veg in bed.  Not that I want it all the time, just once in a blue moon.  And I jokingly asked if anyone wanted to watch my kids for 24 hrs.  LOL!  Yeah, most people thought I was nuts, except my Aunt Barb.  When I went home to visit over the summer I had so many family members say they would watch our kids so we could go out.  I thought that was so sweet.  Unfortunately we just didn’t have the time to get away like that.  So when we get to move back home in 2 yrs, I will certainly take someone up on their offer.
Well anyways, my Aunt travels to D.C sometimes and she offered to watch the kids so Tony and I could go out.  I thought that was so nice.  Now it would be an overnighter somewhere so it’s not like we could one of the Outer Banks homes, that is certainly too far but  maybe a hotel somewhere close so we could go to dinner and a movie and not have to go home.  LOL!  That would certainly be nice.  :-)

I wish we could take an overnighter before school starts but since that is in just over a week, I don’t see that happening.  I am just going to take it easy at home and mentally prepare myself for what’s to come.

Have I made a post about this, I guess I could go back through my posts myself and check but quite frankly I don’t feel like it LOL!  Here is the decision that I made.  I am at a standstill with my weight loss.  I am certainly not 100% happy with myself and want to lose more weight, but school is coming and I just think I will have a lot on my mind.  I will still get to the gym as much as possible but I am not going to worry about my weight, well unless I start gaining weight that is.  LOL!

So I feel better when I am all dressed up.  Not in a gown or nothing, just nice clean, matching clothes.  All the clothes I wear now are torn or stained.  Plus when I do my hair, wear a bit of makeup and have a pedicure….I feel great.

So for starters Nicki and I are going to get hi-lights on Tuesday, then sometime over the next 2 weeks I would like to get a pedicure.  I will probably buy an outfit or two and then with my new book bag I will be all set for school.  Now don’t get me wrong this certainly doesn’t mean I will ever wear corsets, as much as Tony may like it, he is SOL!  :-)

I am going to have to get shopping.

We are less than 2 yrs away from when we want to move.  Summer of 2012 is our goal. My cousin is helping us try and figure out how to correct Tony’s credit so when we move we can hopefully buy a place and not rent anymore.

I was sitting around yesterday playing on the computer and I got a wild hair up my butt and did a search for houses for sale in McHenry.  With the criteria I put in, it came up with 45 listings.  There were a bunch of NICE houses with nice yards and full basements and fireplaces.  I would love a fireplace.  We would probably need to get an electric fireplace insert because I am not sure how much firewood we will get.  But needless to say I would LOVE a fireplace.

Let’s see our house would need a decent sized yard, LARGE kitchen, at least 4 bedrooms and preferably a fireplace.

So as I mentioned Tony and I have new phones.  Since I don’t have an iPhone anymore I had to find some sort of app to use to be able to download music on to my phone and still use iTunes.  Now that wasn’t any problem but I tried to buy some music today and I am not sure if it is my computer, iTunes on my computer or a user error (LOL) because I could buy the song but it wouldn’t download the song.  I did go on Tony’s computer and buy and song and download it just fine.  So I am not sure what happened.  The pisser is that because I had to “reorder” it I got charged twice for the same song.  Who orders the same song twice in one day?  I kept looking for a “contact us” option on iTunes because I felt I needed some emergency assistance.  LOL, it was by far an emergency except for the fact that I wanted all the songs downloaded before I went to the gym.  Needless to say I was not able to get any help and I still can’t download songs from my computer.  Tony is home now though so maybe he can look at it and tell me what I am doing wrong.  LOL!

Yes I am talking about school again.  So Tony and Nicki want me to make them book bags for school.  And since I am making one for them, of course I want one too.  I am also going to make myself a computer sleeve.  So I can carry my laptop to school without worrying about it getting scratched up.

So in less than 2 weeks I have to make 3 book bags and a laptop sleeve.  I guess while I am at it I should make some outdoor pillows.  Yeah I know pretty off topic but I was thinking about how when I try and sit or on the occasion that I lay down on the bench outside I never have a pillow.  The last time it rained and I laid outside to enjoy the rain I had to use a balled up towel, pretty annoying.

Ok, back on topic, for mine and Nicki’s bag I am going to make strips of color.  We are using duck cloth or it could also be thought of as canvas.  It has a bit of a different weave but very similar in thickness.  So our bags will be black, pink and purple.  I am so totally excited about this.  My first bag/purse turned out pretty cool.  So we will see what happens with these  3.  LOL!

I really think we need to get a Wii for the kids this year.  And by kids I mean me and Tony too.  LOL!  When we took Nicki to her Ortho appt today, they have a Wii game there.  Lil Tony has a blast playing and I actually got to help him today and really enjoyed myself.  Nicki would really like one too.  I made it clear to her though that if we get one, she may only get a few more gifts after that.  The Wii would be a gift for all of us.  She is totally OK with that.

I can’t wait for Christmas!  LOL!