Saturday & Sunday : Week in the Life

I'm just going to share a few pictures from my weekend. My word file with my journaling is at home on my desktop and so are half of my pics from Saturday. 

Saturday was cleaning day and on Sunday we made breakfast and took a quick trip to Menards for some more trim to finish our porch. Then my parents came down with some hostas for my garden and they brought Toby. Mya thought it was great but Toby didn't like her too much. After they left I took a nap on the couch while Chad watched NASCAR. 

My summary of the Week in the Life project...it was fun to capture all of our little life moments but I'm glad that I can stop worrying about my camera or writing everything down now. I like to live life and appreciate the little things and this project definitely made me think about that more often but it was also very time consuming to try to catch all those little things everyday. I will probably do it again but most likely it will be down the road when I have kids or maybe during the fall and harvest in a couple years. I'll be posting my finished project by the end of the week because I'm ready to get back to scrapbooking my layouts!

Friday : Week in the Life

This is my favorite picture from Friday! It was so nice to get outside...beautiful weather!

Thursday : Week in the Life

This was by far probably the hardest day for me. I barely took any pictures! I definitely still took notes so I will probably have to supplement pics from other days and just write in details about the things that happen everyday for these pages.

Woke up at 4:00 and heard Mya crying and howling from her pen. This is the first time I’ve ever heard that and it kinda worried me. Then woke up at 5:30 having a dream about Brenda telling me Mya was crying and I was trying to answer her out loud.

6:00 Shower and get ready. Like the blonde hair color much better today. Get Mya out and she’s fine and very happy to see me. Tell Chad goodbye and kiss.

7:15 Jeep is acting up again and the check engine light comes on. Cylinders miss firing and it won’t run right. Call Dad and am not happy that I will have to spend money on this.

7:30 At work and the field files for the dry machine won’t work. Jump drives won’t work and we finally get an old floppy disk. 8:15 have donut because that will make me feel better 8:30 have coffee also make me feel better

8:41 make appointment to take Jeep in tomorrow to have it checked out again

10:18 reading Ali Edwards’ Wednesday and found this.  I think I want to print it really nice and frame it somewhere in my house, preferably in the kitchen or by one of the doors.  “As I was ending my day I came across this quote from Emerson: Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

12:35 Exhausted! So many billing problems and seed corn is starting to go out so keeping track of that is getting crazy! Frank gave me a bottle of peach wine for secretary’s day…just what I need today!!!

12:55 Eat left over hamburger casserole, remember that the NFL draft is tonight. Have to watch and see what happens to Suh.

Been busy with shipments and transfers of seed…Brenda pops in at 4:00 to say hi and tells me she got an internship out in Sydney, NE for the summer! Very exciting but now I won’t get to hang out with her. We’re having drinks tonight to celebrate.

5:15 still working on seed

6:00 run to ALCO quick and return page protectors…the side with the holes is white and I want clear

6:15 get home, open package from Snapfish and put 8x10 pic of us at central park in the frame that has been empty for 6 months, discuss supper, we have no brats or digorno so we go back into town for subway

6:45 Eat subs, check out new scrap package that I got today, and watch DVR’d NFL draft where Suh is the second pick and goes to the Detroit Lyons…I might start watching NFL football for the first time in my life

7:00 go outside and play with Mya, we’re working on teaching her to stay…she does not want to learn “lay down”

Go inside and work on cleaning up last night’s dishes

8:00 Brenda comes over and we have  a drink while watching Private Practice and Pawn Stars …I don’t like channel surfing or flipping back and forth…it’s just not relaxing

Chad goes outside to play with Mya some more

8:45 Brenda leaves and we watch more TV, Chad checks weather and it’s definitely going to rain, I change the alarm to 7 instead of 6 because I won’t have to be at work early with the rain, watch TV

10:15 go to bed

Wednesday : Week in the Life

6:04 roll out of bed…literally. It’s rainy and grey and I love days like this…if I can stay home and do nothing. Chad and I sit on the couch and eat leftover cinnamon cake while watching the volcano in Iceland on Good Morning America. Decide I really want to get my hair high lighted, it’s looking a little blah. Wake up Mya and play in the rain for a while. Leave for work at about 7:25.

Spend some time filing all the bills from yesterday.

9:30 struggle with article I’m writing for one of my layouts to get published, I want to say everything right

10:45 make appointment for noon to get my hair cut and high lighted by Brooke at Heads and Beds

10:50 paychecks come in the mail, hand out to everybody and then check my account online to see if it’s been deposited. Transfer my overtime $ to my savings account for new furniture. Make payment to credit card.

11:36 run a few inventory and sales reports on chemical

12:00 go to see Brooke to get my hair high lighted…we talk the entire time about babies and weddings and other girl stuff. Brooke is pregnant and due in October.

2:00 hair is super blond and she got rid of my ugly layering that was going on

2:30 Ron (the operations manager) shows up and gives me a nice candle for administrative assistants week

3:00 bill anhydrous to a few customers and weigh up some dry fertilizer for the Answer Plot

4:01 Very hungry because I didn’t eat before my hair appointment…eat some pretzels

4:41 give in to being hungry and eat an oatmeal cream pie

4:59 camera battery died, sun is out, can’t wait to go home

Made a new chicken pasta dish for supper, very yummy. 

Went outside and measured for the NRCS to put new trees in next week. They used GPS to measure and were way off. We’re going to have so many extra trees. I’ll live in a forest. Mya thought that the bright pink flags were fun to play with.

Laid on a blanket in the yard and played with Mya. Took a walk out to the pivot and Mya found a mouse. It was already dead so we thought it might have been poisoned so we took it away from her.

Watched 1 vs 100 and Remember the Titans until 10 and went to bed.

It was a good Wednesday. Ali has an amazing Emerson quote on her blog today that I need to read more often. Go check it out. I like the pictures that I'm taking but I really wish we could get some better pictures of us doing the things we do. Most of my pictures that I try to take of myself are awful. Chad is taking a camera to work tomorrow to get his average day in our week too. Have a good evening everyone!

Tuesday : Week in the Life

6:00 alarm goes off, take shower and get ready. I'm too tired to care so I put my hair in a ponytail. Wake up Mya and play a little. Chad lays on the couch and watches the news. I miss Good Morning America because I always have to leave before it comes on.
7:25 bills, orders and paperwork is piled on my desk. It might rain which would be good so that everyone could have a break today and I could catch up on stuff. Check personal email and get a happy news email from an online publication wanting to use one of my layouts! Very excited!
8:30 already have to make another 2 pots of coffee and have already had 2 crabby farmers
10:30 working on billing but it is raining so I take a break and upload bathroom remodel pics to my blog
11:25 thinking I will need a drink today because the inventory check for the month just got laid on my desk...I really don't like inventory.
12:35 taking a break to run errands and get out of the office for a little while
Spent entire afternoon invoicing orders and pushing bills through the computer. Rains off and on all day. I love the smell of rain and wish I was at home cuddled on the couch. Leave early today because it's slow.
5:30 get home and greet Mya. Spill coffee all over in my purse and figure it's a good time to take a picture of my purse's contents. Realize that all of my purses are "wintery" and really want a new one...maybe yellow!
5:45 Chad decides to go golfing with his friend Brad. Brad's wife, Shauna, comes over for a little girl chatting while the guys are gone. She leaves at 8:15 and I go outside to play with Mya. She's learned shake but can not grasp "lay down" Go inside at 8:45. Chad comes home and tells me he golfed really well. 9:35 Tired and ready for bed.