The oddly normal life of Clorie

Today I had a day off. Second in a row. It was also tims birthday. Promise had oral surgery as well. So my day off, as usual was not really spent "off" just not at work. Promise did really well. She didn't act a fool high on drowsy drugs. Kinda sad about that...we were gonna u tube it. LOL.

So I worked quite a bit this week and I was a single mom...so dinner has been fast food...it what the girls can easily cook...but last night I had promise make chicken breasts and parmesean noodles....Bailey asked what was for dinner....after I told him he said "finally we get to eat real food!" This made me feel pretty horrible. I have slacked in my mom duties in order to take on more hours... And have.fed.my kids crap all week! So that was yesterday. Today my husband is home! Woot woot! Enough said too busy for pictures.

I've made it nearly a week without my husband. It was not so hard. The kids have really been good and quite helpful believe it or not. So today you get a blog without a photo. I worked all day and I am exhausted.... I don't have to take kids to school tomorrow... But I have to work, and am excited to be able to "sleep in" until 8 LOL. Goodnight blog. ha

Worked hard today. Once again someone has just left a job...in an economy where so many are jobless and working so hard to get one....we have people that never call or show....or show up late or call in....or just leave mid shift. I guess having a job and paying bills is highly over rated for some....me I like my electricity on....the luxury of cable....and health insurance. I know I complain about my job....but its really perfect for me. So after working hard....I rewarded myself and the kids with a night out. We went to Chinese, and then goodwill. Fun times. Ready for two split shifts...then...2 days....in a row....OFF! WOOT!

So 2 days ago I went to the tanning bed....I guess I forgot I had not been in forever and should go for a very short time. Needless to say areas that don't naturally see the sun, burned. Badly. I showed Hannah my back and was telling her about my butt. "your going to have to have daddy take a look at your butt when he gets home." She says. "hes the only one that wants to see mom butt in this house." LOL some times they say the darndest things. So no sympothy from my family there.... I'm sure though, hannaha right. When daddy gets back he won't mind taking a peek. 4 days until he's back home. I miss him. Who'd of thunk it. Lol

My little book worm. Hubbub still gone. Been spending time with my kindle instead...guess I'm rubbing off on the kiddoes.

I used to do the single parent thing...but back then the girls were little, friends were only the kids next door. They didn't care if I took them somewhere it we stayed home. They didn't have homework it projects unless I had come up with one. Let me just say...being an only parent is tiring....but the worst part is once the kids are in bed....and your all alone. No one to talk to....just quiet. Lots if time to read though....but not tonight. I'm sleepy.

I took my hubbub and his brother to the bus station today....a week long trip to Texas. Visiting family, and old friend and his mothers grave... I'm thrilled he's able to go...he's been give twelve hours and already I miss him like crazy. No one here to make the bed and cover me up. No warm body to snuggle. Tomorrow morning I have to take the kids to school....make my own coffee....and come home to an empty house...again. On the plus side...no snoring lol. So off to my empty bed I go.... Night night blog.

It's funny. I used to work 11-2 m-f yeah....15 hours a week...here lately I find myself there 6 days a week. Not complaining I asked for more hours. I got a raise. My kids are bigger and don't need me home so often (no one needs a boob) Either way the jump in hours has worn me out this week....and my day off, spent running everywhere I hadn't all week, seems to last forever and fly by all at the same time.... I missed my blog yesterday. I took a photo....an adorable photo of my aunts little boy....because he is currently a foster child, his photo cannot be posted online. It was nice seeing them though...and my car club group for the first time in a few months... It's like seeing old friends....which, pathetically work people....coworkers and customers...are like my ONLY friends anymore.

Today my son put on I think at final tally it was 14, shirts. Why? I have no idea. Just came out if his room with them all on. Lol. Other than that...I worked. A split. Blah. Work sleep eat and shit....its all I do lately. I cannot wait until Tim gets back to work and I can drop a few hours....my ankles hurt from standing so much!

I spend about fourty dollars a month on dog food....lamb as the first ingredient....and every chance they get, they instead are eating the waste of the 30 cat food! Gross dogs. Come at me for kisses with litter boogers and shut breath.... No thanks doggie!

Today I had....drum roll please...the day off! I slept in until 9. Took the girls to the orthodontist, then out to lunch then to schoool. When I got home I scheduled promises oral surgery...got a medical bill to.go.through my insurance...read a book and took a short nap When the kids got home I helped promise with her phone, watched magic tricks by Bailey and Hannah....argued with Destiny... Cooked an awesome meal only one kid complained about. Watched biggest loser then baked (and ate-way too many) cookies! Oh and I even cleaned up my mess....loaded the dishwasher and folded laundry! Back to work tomorrow. The kids are all going to church tomorrow....I see another nap in my future!

 It feels like I have been doing this forever. Lol. 16 days out of 365. Blahhhhh. Interesting stuff happens everyday but when I get home to actually talk about it its all gone!  So today. I get up for work, after like NO sleep. I am running late but I stop to get an EXTRA CAFFINE mocha anyway. Otherwise no one would have been happy with me. I promise.  Were training a new guy in the kitchen and the guy who is leaving, is supposed to be teaching him, but did not tell him to date things. So I teach him the CORRECT way, not the GRANT way. Grant says he cannot understand why I have made it so long in this place, because he "hates the job" then he tells me that its because I am the one who does the bitching, and I never get bitched at... I said I don't get bitched at because I usually DO my job... He says "oh you just do what you need, to get by" WTF mother fucker? Seriously? ALL my salad bar stuff, is FRESH, DATED, INITALS ON IT. ALL My work is done every day...

14. Saturday. No picture. Why? Well lets see.  I was supposed to work 9-4 but Brad was going to be late, so could I stay until he got there... SUUUUUURE. Well 5pm rolls around, no brad and boss tells the OTHER guy he probably wont need him... So just to be "on call". Um? Hello? Clorie has 5 screaming girls at home, a cake to bake, and shit to do??? Oh OK I'll stay brad should be any moment now.... Then RING RING RING phone blows up. Boss is gone on delivery... I am the only one in the store. Call in boy who was told he porbably would not be needed as Brad is now LOST somewhere in Oklahoma!!!  Boy who was supposed to be in complains, he has fish in his truck that cannot live long in baggies... Clorie complains she has a cake to make and he needs to STFU. Brad calls and asks clorie to close for him. Clorie goes off. NO she cannot close for him. She is hitting OT hours which are NOT allowed. She also has 5 girls at home she promised to take skating, and a cake to bake. O...

I'm a day late posting...and today day 14 I didn't even get a.picture taken. Not even on the cell. I woke up went to work....ended up working late...going over 40 hours. Had to ride the moped home. Once I thawed....I made dinner and.baked a cake....3 actually. Can we say super mom? Ha! Let's hope this zebra cake turns.out alright. 9000 kids at the birthday party tomorrow....let's se if I make it through.

 Oh Promise. My little blonde babe. 13 years ago today. Lets go back shall we...  I could not eat past midnight. I had to have a planned Csection. Promise was almost a month late, considering she was DUE on December 19th. So January 12th they finally put me out of my misery and took her C section. Not only was she late, she was also breech. They had, for some odd reason thought my due date was off, and let me go miserably fat, and pregnant so long because of that.  I had not found out what Promise would be before hand. Boy or girl, she was a surprise. When the doctor removed her from my belly I remember him saying to the nurse first off, that she was double footling breech... Both her feet were in my crotch and her head up in my ribs. Because I carried her SO differently I had always thought she was a boy. After the doctor announced her position he said "Well, looks like a girl!" in my drugged up, blood lost state, I remember thinking... He said it LOOKS like a girl.....

Not much to say today. Work seemed to suck. I am pmsy and cranky. So you get a picture of my daughters cat. Meet oreos.

Sometimes life is too much. You can let depression or anxiety take over...or you can grin and bear it. Sometimes a fake smile turns into stress relief....sometimes you fool yourself into actual happiness.... Not such a bad thing! So when life has you down, count your blessings and realize it will all be ok!

One of my favorite customers gave me a gift card to abuelos for Christmas. Tonight we used it. I am overly full and bloated....with enough leftovers for lunch and dinner tomorrow! It was nice to have some alone time....time away from the kids and house.

So since Tim is laid off....we need extra money. I asked for extra hours at work.... Well ask and You shall receive. I feel like I have not left this place all week long. I'm not complaining....well yes I am. I am thankful though, for the extra hours so we don't get (any farther)behind.

Yes I am starting at day 7. I technically have taken a photo every day up until now, and possibly might upload them later (yeah right probably not....) so I am starting on day 7... Since today is day 7 of my project.   I am having an affair with a site called pinterest.com I have found so many awesome ideas and recipes. One of which is to take a basket and hang it on the wall Like the picture above... To store things. Larger baskets can be used for towels and wash rags and that kinda stuff. I had a basket on the back of the toilet... and it was constantly being knocked down... toilet paper on the floor and wet... SO I hung it on the wall... I like it already! :) See all that time looking at that site is NOT "wasted" :)

 Ive not blogged, or taken "good" photos for the project... My diet went down the toilet yesterday and although not OVER on calories for sure today... Its not been much better.  I Should have made my resolution to sit on my butt, look at pinterest, play words with friends, work and cook dinner. THOSE are resolutions I can keep!  Seriously though the 365 thing gets me because I try to do it on Flickr, but then I want to put the pictures of facebook too, and then I feel like I have to spend 3 hours uploading editing and posting a picture... I don't have that much time to waste its a fact. Not with 2 teenagers (well one ALMOST) and 2 kids (one who has the tude of a teen already thanks to watching her big sisters be one) I just don't have time. In fact I am shocked some days that I even get supper (A normally pretty decent one) on the table as it is.  So here it is one week into resolution time... and I am changing them up.  I want to BLOG a photo a day. Pro...

 Like a big time one of those days. First I go to work, of course, and I was like the only one who showed up. Customers were far and few between since its a "holiday" or whatever... So I pulled out all the booths, swept behind them, cleaned tables that were left dirty, scrubbed toilets (and really how does shit GET on that part of a toilet anyway??) so then I spent the next hour or so, playing on pinterest... My newest found addiction.  I get home, after working all day... and my husband apparently took today as his day off, from everything. The laundry did not get folded, dishes were not done, so I got to do them before I could make dinner. Oh yes and I had to take kids to exchange a shirt that was too small, trade my blue ray player for one that worked, and do some general shopping for various odds and ends.  I get home, and my husband is still doing nothing much... Unless you count hiding in the bedroom, laying on the bed watching TV doing something. I think he cam...

 Wow 2012 already. Its amazing how time flies. Seriously flies. When I was young... Omg listen to me... Next I'll need a cane to walk around with... When I was a young lady....< > Time passed by so much more slowly.  I have customers come in with children, who are school age, who had come in with babies in utero! My best friends daughter is getting MARRIED this summer. MARRIED! I met her when she was about 6, how is it possible she get married? It honestly makes me realize that I am, actually old!  Aside from all that it is a brand new year. With bright new starts! I hung a pair of size 9 jeans on the wall. I hope to fit in to them sometime this year. This year I vow to:  Buy a new calender  drink water  lose weight  try to bitch less  Be more positive  blog more often  do 365 pictures  try 50 new recipes and blog them on my other blog  So my New Year has started out pretty well. The kids go to school Monda...