Busy week; Fun Saturday; Lazy Sunday!

Monday-- Started off slow.  As most days have lately.  Joel has to be up at 6 and leave by 6:30 to make it to work.  I get up with him to make his lunch and see him off for the day.  Being that I have nothing specific to do I can’t convince myself to stay up so I tend to go back to bed for a few hours.  However this makes me sluggish and takes a bit for me to get motivated to get some housework done.  To try to get myself going and in an exercise routine I’ve started doing a Pilates DVD.  The extra challenge today was the the dogs thought I was in the floor to play with them. Doing some extra twisting to avoid play with them and still work out I must have pulled something in my back because I was having some pretty harsh pain in my lower back later in the day. Luckily the pain didn’t come around till the afternoon so I was able to get stuff done around the house in the morning. Though it didn’t look it by time Joel got home. We having been having problems with our sinks filling up with water when we use the garbage disposal or dishwasher so I called apartment maintenance to come fix it.  Since this had occurred over the weekend I was unable to do dishes and just used another pan when I needed to cook, thus making a huge pile of dirty dishes.  In order to fix the drain problem I had to clean out all the stuff in the under the sink cabinet and pile at the side of the kitchen.  By time it was fixed my back hurt too much to fix things back up.

Tuesday -- Well the morning started much as any other day slowly lol.  But I did get up with minimal back pain so I got the kitchen back in order. My big project for the day was fixing the problem we have with our dogs looking out the bedroom window and barking at other dogs or people going by.  Most of the time that bedroom door stays shut but Joel seems to forget to close it behind him sometimes then gets upset when the dogs start barking.  So to fix the problem I put longer curtains in there and taped some poster board on the bottom in hopes they can’t see and distract them from barking at outside activity.

Wednesday--Well I have been almost 5 months now without a job since I left my last one and was unable to find a full time this year.  In an attempt to stay in my chosen career field of teaching I have been putting my applications in at local schools to substitute this year.  I make calls every few days to check in with the schools but havn’t gotten much response.  They say I’m in the processing process or they are reviewing applications.  Today not excluded.  Well I get really down in the dumps about it thinking this isn’t gonna work out and need to look into something else. Just as I’m starting to get depressed and start the job hunt I get a call from the 1 school I didn’t manage to call today.  Lo and behold they need me to come in to finish paperwork so I can start working for them! WHOOPEE except that Joel has taken my car to work and I can’t drive his stick shift truck.  I have no transportation to get to my first job opportunity. Ugh.  As I’m chatting with my cousin on facebook I complain to her being the sweet doll that she is offered me the use of her car to get my buisness done.  GREAT COUSIN TO THE RESCUE.    I zip to the school get my paperwork finished up and set up for fingerprinting tomorrow to hopefully be in the online substitute system to begin working by next week.  (My outlook and mood has greatly improved)
Thursday--Got my fingerprinting done, stopped by my cousins work to say hey, did a little grocery shopping then headed home because it was on and off rainy and I didn’t want to get caught out in it.  Oh I forgot to mention I made a stop by my new favorite place, Hobby Lobby)  I’ve never lived in a town with a Hobby Lobby and am loving it.  Don’t worry joel for sure keeps me in check to not spend too much money but I can pass lots of time just looking too.
Friday--So the new thing with fingerprinting I guess is electronic fast track.  They said the results should be back in 24-48 hours.  I called the school today to check on something else not thinking my prints would be back yet.  But the human resource lady said she just got my prints back and was getting me in the system right now.  Within a few hours I’d should be able to access the website and start setting up sub. days.  For those of you in AR that probably aren’t familiar with the system,  here the substituting is all computerized.  Teachers get on this website to say they are going to be out and need a sub.  I can check the website at any time see what’s available and chose what I want.  No phone calls involved.  Pretty good system from what I can see so far.  Not the old standard accept the first call you get cause you might not get anything else.  I can see the options available and pick what I prefer. Super excited I may be able to start working again real soon.  Later in the day my cousin called to ask if I want to come have a “movie night” with her.  She is house sitting for her grandparents.  Her husband works til midnight and she didn’t want to be alone.  So once Joel got home to take over puppy duty I went to hang out with her for the night.
Saturday--Saturday started out slow and lazy at my cousins grandparents.  We lounged around, made breakfast and she cleaned house while her husband and I watched the Razorback game. My husband is at home across town so he and I are texting the whole time reviewing the game.  That evening Joel came over, we got all fixed up, and met some of their friends and ate out at Chili’s. Afterwards we went to mudfest.  It was interesting to say the least.  Probably the best part was the foot race they had all these crazies um.. people racing in the mudpit for $100.  The funny thing was they were taking off their socks and shoes and rolling up their pants.  As though this would protect their clothes.  Did it not occur to them they would likely fall down and get the rest of them muddy?  Guess not.  Well we had a good time the 3 couples visiting with each other.  Defiantly must all get together more often! The event did produce a good picture of Joel and I.  (As my mother can testify we have very few pictures of us together.)

Well as indicated in my title it’s been a good week.  Despite the house is a bit messy I’m thinking today will be a lazy lounge day.  So far no work for tomorrow so I can clean house then LOL.  As you can see by the pictures the rest of my family is liking the idea of LAZY SUNDAY!