With DH's schedule change I feel so rushed. I get home and fell I need to start cooking dinner right away so we can eat before 6:00 p.m. When he is working second shift I come home and relax a little and I may or may not even get started until about 6:30-7:00 and I take my time.

Last night I was trying to make my rosemary waffle grilled cheese sandwhiches - these turned out ok. I of course ruined the first two batches with the stupid waffle iron, that I believe eventually over heated and burned out at the  These turned out pretty good, however, I would add additional flavor to the waffle.

DH gets home and we eat, he then grills some chicken for tonight's chicken alfredo the girl wanted.

And as usual, DH is falling asleep at 8:30 and he goes to bed....seriously?? This is just a little too early for me. As I sit there I decided I would go to bed early as well. I crawl in about 9:00...Big Mistake.

I was wide awake at 2:30 in the morning, like lets get up and get the day started. I tossed and turned and then when the alarm went off at 5:00 a.m. I had the worst headache. I got up with DH and ate breakfast and then ...work!

B: frosted shredded mini wheats, vanilla iced coffee

L: grilled cheese sandiwhich, banana, gold fish

S: yogurt

D: chicken alfredo with brocolli.

PHOTO OF THE DAY!

Work is meh...

Got home before DH and started dinner. Sometimes Tasty is the only reason I can get dinner prepared. I had left over chicken and saw this recipe on Tasty and thought I would try it out...instead of frying in oil I used the air fryer and they turned out pretty good. I didn't have spring onion so I just useda yellow one and I added mushrooms.

I didn't take a picture of them fresh but here are the two I have for lunch.

DH and I did go to Wal-Mart to pick up a few things like milk and bread and bananas. When we got home we cleaned up the kitchen and I cooked a 'black and blue' cobbler using the blackberries and blueberries ...again befoe they went bad. They've been in the refrigerator over a week and we have yet to eat them. I cooked them down with sugar, vanilla and a little lemon juice - it wasn't a lot. After I put the mixture in a premade pie crust and banked it - kinda cobbler like.

Slept kinda crazy - again not used to DH being home and he wants to go to bed like at 9:30 and I'm like what....I usually don't go to bed until 12:00 and though 9:30 would probably be more healthy and beneficial it's like changing my whole routine and....I don't know I'll see maybe tonight.

Once I did finally go to bed I had crazy dreams and I kept waking up checking the tme. I was dreaming I had sideburns and was debating on whether to shave them off because I could not go to work with hair growing down the sides of my face. And then I was in the bathtub with an infant and I kept falling asleep in the tub and when I would rouse myself the baby would be floating facedown in the water because i guess I let the baby drown when I fell asleep...who knows.....and then I was tryinjg to hold a conversation with my mother and she literally had two faces (not two heads but faces)  and I kept changing positions because I didn't know which face I would be talking to. CHAOS to say the least.

Photo of the day...another submission from our weather  facebook page...so beautiful this was taken in Lorain when the storms rolled by a few nights ago. The Lorain light house is left of the lightening (with the red light).

B: cold oat meal, pecans, vanilla iced latte

S: yogurt

L: Left over chicken balls, banana

D: another experiment from Tasty - Rosemary Thyme waffle grilled cheese and French onion soup.

DH is grilling some chicken for the chicken alfredo the girl wants tomorrow for dinner - her first day of highschool.

Have a great night! IP

Friday night I ate a bowl of cereal for dinner. After the sandwich at lunch I wasn't too hungry. The girl left at 6:00.

DH and I just hung out and watched baseball.

Saturday morning we were supposed to do some yard work, however, when we work up at 8:30 it was already hot and humid. We didn't do yard work. We went to a new fruit stand. We picked up some zucchini and yellow squash and a few onions. Then we went to see another buy and got some fresh peaches and orange/yellow tomatoes.

B: toast

L: gold fish crackers, honey ham

D: burrito, chili, cheese with tomato, corn, onion and avocado

DH put together the burrito bake thing. It was pretty good, but I could have done without the corn.

Sunday, well, we got up at 6:30 and was outside for about 1.5 hours pulling weeds, we didn't get to mow because it stormed most of the night, this made the weed pulling easier. After weed pulling I scrubbed both upstair bathroom and chained out shower curtains and mats, they look so fresh and new now with different colors. When I looked at the clock it was only 10:30. It's amazing how much you can get down when you really want.

I started laundry and then I cooked the peaches, for a cobbler type thing I wanted to try and make.

B: toast

L: PB&J, gold fish crackers

D: grilled chicken, cabbage and brussel sprouts, we were cabbage heavy at this meal. It was good though.

S: the peach cobbler I made - it was pretty darn good.

PHOTO OF THE WEEKEND - this was at the fruit stand we were at - someone made this huge bulletin board and filled it with pens of all colors, shapes and sizes. I could think about doing this, we have many pens around the house.

DH is working first shift this week, my entire routine is thrown off, I guess this could be a good thing...but NO.

B: cold oatmeal with walnuts, vanilla iced latte

L: left over burrito, cheezits

S: balanced breaks

D: TBD

There is left over chicken and cabbage. However, I want to experiment and make things...

I have black berries and blueberries, I may try and make something with them before they go bad.

Anyway...off to tackle another week - back is a little stiff from pulling all the weeds. I don't think I should schedule so much to do in one day.

Have a great week! IP

Day three of earache - I will have to go to the doctor.

Yesterday was just terrible. DH worked midnight shift, got home about 8:30 and then he goes back to work at 1:00 pm. I was asking him why he did this because I don't think it's healthy, he was worried about what we (the girl and I) were going to eat for dinner as he was driving to work. I said take something out of the freezer I will figure it out - he said I am driving to work. I'm like OMG why and he tells me a story about someone at work and then I say well ask Kayla what she wants for dinner. And he gets all huffy and says, I will call her....I thought he meant after we got finished  talking  and he thinks he hung up on me but didn't....and then I hear....f'ing biotch!

I'm like OMG he actually called me that. At first I was mad and then I'm like he is aggravated and tired and is kinda taking something he forgot to do out on me....I don't like it and it hurt my feelings, but I can only control my own actions.

So he calls me back and I tell him, oh by the way, I heard what you called me and I'm sorry I said something to upset you, I know you are tired and cranky, but it's not my fault you chose to go and work another shift. I actually think he was embarrassed and he apologized. And then he said, what all mothers and food providers in the world hates to hear....Kayla said she doesn't care what's for dinner.

I then get a text from the girl asking me, what do I feel like eating. I reply, I'm not even hungry right now, how about we think about it when you get back home? She was going to the High School Open House with her cousin. She agreed.

So this girl gets home and she is in the crappiest mood ever. She was blubbering and crying about high school kids and how mean and rude they are and how unfair life is going to be now that she is in highschool. I told her she is at the bottom of the totem pole and upper classmen are going to be that way....because they just do. And then she was talking  about her BF and his firends and total melt down....I told her just 'kill'em with kindness - there is no reason to be rude and hateful and now is the time to be the bigger person. And then she hated her schedule and didn't get any of the elective classes she asked for...she really wanted Spanish and I think she was just really overwhelmed realizing that she is in high school now.

Anyway, she wanted McDonald's after she finally calmed down. Poor thing...and also she doesn't want to go back to her mother's tonight.

DH finally made it home at 11:00pm and apologized again.

Yesterday was a bad food day and just a throat punch kinda day all around..

L: ham ans swiss, fries

D: quarter pounder, fries and peach slushie

PHOTO of the day!!! Welcome to High School....

I slept surprisingly well and even woke myself up laughing at my mother. We were eating something and I asked her to try it and the minute it hit her tongue she started spitting it out. It was just funny last night and I woke myself up.

B: toast, iced vanilla latte

L: TBD - DH and the girl are coming up for lunch - they are stopping at McAllester's deli so I will either have a sandwich or salad

D: TBD

Plans for the weekend - yard work and DH wants to go to a fruit stand a few towns over and there is a dog event we may or may not go to.

Have a great day! IP

Earache still.

DH came and picked up my car and took it for an oil change. I'm so thankful for this, but what can you do when you get an email from your car? He left me his big old truck to drive.

While he was out he found the Latino food.

D: occapurrio, pastilito both with ground beef. I had to pass on the potato ball and rice and beans, no thanks.

DH heads to bed and me and the girl go bra shopping. This is always fun. She knew what she wanted, but she would not carry them around. She pushed them around in a buggy. Oh to be young again. LOL. We were also looking for a specific bare of jeans that she wears to school and this particular Wal-mart did not have any in stock. The girl wanted her eyebrows done so I drove over to another town to get that down.

The girl mentioned she wanted her upper lip done as well. I was hesitant and asked her - what if it grows back faster - I'm not bringing you over here every week. I had a lot of what ifs..what if the thread cuts you like it did before and you go to school with a cut all on your upper lip, what if it stays red for days and days (she has very sensitve skin) I was trying to be funny and to make her think about it more all at the same time.  The cosmologist told her the upper lip hurt worse than getting the eyebrows done (but it did grow in less and less the more you have it done) because it would hurt worse the girl decided to wait until next time. I am glad.

The Wal-mart by the mall in this town did not have her jeans either, so I was able to use Rakuten again and get 5% cash back so there's that! I also ordered her two school shirts and a hoodie with her name embroidered on it which she doesn't know about.

DH was up at 9:30 and left at 10:00.

I think I got into bed at 11:30, and slept very well.

When my alarm went off at 5:30 - instead of my DH...I see this...he was so compfortable and did not want to get up.

PHOTO OF THE DAY!!

B: toast, PB, iced vanilla latte

S: banana

L: I don't have lunch today and will go get a salad from somewhere

D: I don't know, but it is evident I need to make a menu if DH is going to continue being on 3rd shift. - which I hope tonight is the last night.

Have a great day! IP

Earache.

Got home last night and DH had a roast in the crockpot. This is normally good, but this roast was tough as a boot. It was even hard to cut up with a knife. The dogs liked it though. We won't buy this cut ever again.

We did spend some time looking for a new Puerto Rican food store and found one. DH will attempt to find it and get the food he wanted the night before.

The girl and I are supposed to go bra shopping after work. She told me, there are just some things I don't want to do with my dad. I get it and understand totally.

D: little bit of roast, potatoes and carrots

After dinner I had the last of the ice cream that was in the freezer., and PB M&Ms...again choices and why are these even in the house? I so sick and tired of talking about losing weight and wonder why I just don't actually do IT!! I'm so frustrated with myself.

And then I started stressing about my flight coming up...bigger, overweight people and airplanes just don't mix. 56 days now - 8 weeks.

B: toast, iced vanilla latte

L: banana, balanced breaks

S: 2 cuties

D: hispanic food if DH finds the place, if not I have no idea yet.

With all the hype surrounding the Cleveland Browns this year a local farm made a corn maze in recognition of our star quarterback Baker Mayfield, who happens to be from OKLAHOMA!!  PHOTO OF THE DAY! Baker Mazefield

We got a new member of the management team at work and I'm not so sure our ethics allign. He says and does things I think is shady so we might have issues. He's worked here in a different position, but I now have to interact with him more...this may cause me undue stress AND he hasn't even officially been announced yet.

The plan for Puero Rican food fell through. The man who owned the restaurant closed and now just has a food truck and DH couldn't find where the truck was, so they brought home pizza. I ate it, but really wasn't in the mood for it. He took the left overs for lunch and I'm munching on a chicken caesar wrap.

B: French toast flavored toast, vanilla iced latte

S: PB M&Ms

L: chicken caeser wrap

S: balanced breaks

D: IDK - DH said he was cooking something but I have no clue. And if I'm right, I'm thinking it's gonna be some kind of chicken (because 1. he just bought a 40 pound box of it and 2. he said he cooked the last we ate frozen on the grill) I will pray for rain, that usually keeps him i the house and I may be sick of chicken.

Rocco got out of the yard this morning early, at 6:50 and was barking at one of our neighbors, Nancy and her dog Ragan. I heard him barking and went outside and she says in her snooty voice...One of your dogs is out and he was coming after her (Ragan) and that just isn't going to happen! I just replied. Thanks I'll get him! But what I really wanted to say is...really Nancy you don't have to be so dramatic, this puppy will not hurt your dog, he just wants to play. Little does she now that when her husband, Lance, walks the dog, he stops and lets the two/three (if Steve is out too)  dogs play.  I got my dog, well I opened the gate and he ran back in and then I finished getting ready for work.

And then I dropped my water bottle and broke the outside insulation cover that keeps it cold..GRR.

DH sent me this photo of the day he saw while school supply shopping with the girl..I laughed and I told him, well you can't get that for Kayla, because drama just loves her.l....so I will try and adoptt it for my motto of the week..

PHOTO OF THE DAY!!

I can plan things and they don't go right. DH says I will leave work at 3:30, pick the girl up and get the food...YOU just go home.

At 4:40 DH calls me and says there is only one lane of traffic on the turnpike due to construction and he has not even gotten the girl yet. So I say great, she is 30 minutes from the food. You get the girl and come home and I will get the food. So I left to get the food that was supposed to be ready at 5:00, but it seems like everyone else in NE Ohio wanted Itialian food Friday night as well. So I get to their to pick up my 5:00 o'clock food about 5:10 and I had to wait until about 5:25 to get my food and then when I get home at 5:40, DH and the girl still aren't there. Needless to say we finally ate our 5:00 o'clock food about 6:15. It was still good, but I'm sure it would have been better.

DH fell asleep quickly after because he had only slept 4:00 hours the night before. I left him in the recliner all night. He said he woke up at 5:30 and went to Walmart for some stuff.

Saturday the girl's BF is over and they watch TV and we go see The Lion King....nothing has changed, it is still cartoon Lion King, just with great CGI and different voices. Most of the music is the same. Afterwards we take the BF home and go shoe shopping. **Rakuten is just about the greatest thig ever! We had a 15% coupon and it was buy one get one 1/2 off and DH spun the wheel and got an additional $2.00 off. But with the Rakuten I also get 15% cash back from the instore shopping. So we saved a lot of money.

Afterwards we went to Dickie BBQ place and I had brisket and pulled pork. I ordered backed beans but these were spicy and I gave them to DH. We got home and DH fell asleep only to stay awake all night to prepare for the 3rd shift this week.

Sunday I was up and did laundry, DH and the girl went shopping and picked up a pair of shoes we had to order. I made chicken marsala, roasted potatoes and green beans for dinner. It was quite tasty. DH went to bed for about five hours and he was up and left for work at 9:45 to get there by 11:00.

I slept very well after I finally got to sleep after midnight and then the puppy Rocco, jumped on the bed and landed right in the middle of my back, this woke me up for a minute.. The girl is there all week so that may help.

DH is taking the girl school supply shopping and they are going to get the Spanish food they want to eat...Alcapurrias - yucca and plaintain fritters filled with ground beef, Mofongo is green plaintains stuffed with chicken or beef, rellenos de papa is mashed potatoes stuffed with ground beef (I do not like these), pasteles again with the green plaintains filled with meat and usually steamed (i do not like these either) and then the pastelitos which are fried dough with meet inside - I can give or take this stuff, but DH and the girl like it once in while. I just told them don't buy extra.

Busy at work.

B: cold oat meal, iced vanilla latte

L: left over chicken marsala, banana

S: balanced breaks

D:...some of the above

PHOTO of the day - my office posted a - "show us your sunsets Ohio" and this was submitted. I just thought it was beautiful.

Have a great evening! IP

My body is telling me I don't get enough sleep as I start to nod off at work. I'm glad it is a slow day and not alot of people running in and out. Just that one guy who talks to hear himself talk...I sometimes wonder if anyone on the operations floor even listens to him al all.

Last night I get home and I think I'm going to fall asleep in the recliner, which is what I really want to do, but the doggos have different plans. So we walk, they play and I head back home. I didn't ask DH to take anything out of the freezer for dinner so I stare at the pantry...not one or two times, but three times. I don't see anything even remotely appealing. I go outside to the freezer and poke around. Stuff I don't want. I do see to frozen packages of premade shrimp tacos.

This sounds good to me and I have avocado that needs to be eaten. So why not...and I can even cook it frozen. This turns out so, so good. I even want to go back to the store and see if I can find it again. Oh, I just also mention these packets have been in my freezer for over a year. The expiration date was 8/31/19....so these didn't go to waste.

So along with mini naan, sour cream and avocado, this was my dinner.

PHOTO OF THE DAY.....Shrimp tacos

I was torn between watch the Browns or the Indians so I kept flipping back and forth between the two games.

Fortunately both teams won!

DH worked the day shift and he is going to get the girl and pick up dinner. He ordered from Olive Garden. He said he ordered me the Lasagna Mia with chicken. I will have to go look at this. It will be a nice treat before he goes on midnights next week. This means I will need to get some good sleep this weekend, because I don't sleep well when he is on third shift...and one of the dogs will be restless without his human. I swear this dog gets depressed when DH is not around.

B: cranberry orange scone, vanilla iced coffee

L: junior whopper, BK taco (don't waste your time - this was not good)

D: Olive Garden - lasagna Mia

Have a great weekend!

IP

Picked up the girl and headed home. She was happy to show me her new school and show me the stadium she will be doing marching band in. She was happy, I was happy. We had a good evening. She did ask if her BF could come over on Saturday. We had shoe shopping plans, but I will move this to Sunday so she can see her friend. We may go see The Lion King or there is a Corn Festival close to us. We will have yard work to do.

We have had ants recently and fruit flies so I had the terminx man come and spray for the insects.

DH put together the baked chicken, rtiz cheddar bake. I made some brocolli and we ate dinner. She talked alot about her band and her uniform and how she needed $90 for the cleaning fee and whatever else she had to get (a tshirt to wear under the jacket and a pair of shorts for I don't know what)  and then she left about 7:45 with my $90 check.

I left my phone at work and I have to admit it was quite pleasant not always listening for bells and notifications and always picking that stupid thing up during the evening.

Because I didn't sleep well the night before I was in bed by 11:00. I don't know what happened, maybe I was rolling over or was sleeping very lightly, but I must have sensed something in the room and just opened my eyes when DH was walking in the room and he scared the crap out of me. I jumped and my heart raced like I ran a mile. He apologized and said he didn't mean to scare me. Oh but I'm glad you're awake. He was telling me he was notified that the POS child support was only increased like $56. So he was happy.

B: toast, iced vanilla latte

L: leftover chicken and brocolli

S: apple

D: I have no idea yet

Photo of the day: Hibicus - this flower is about  five feet tall and as big as a small dinner plate; it was outside my neighbor's house.

Start of the NFL season today - torn between watching the Browns or Indians.

Have a great night! IP