Happy Monday! Did we have a good weekend? I certainly did! I did
NOTHING!
No unpacking, no cleaning, nada. Spawn made Fish n Chips for dinner on Sunday… I think we had chicken stew on Saturday. Kitchen looks a mess. But I’ve started running down and I needed some down time and rest time!
Also had to do seating charts and lesson plans. Lousy use of my planning time this past week.
ANYWAY! I hope we are well and up and moving!
Are you ready for some mancandy??? I certainly am!
I admit it. I want this one to tie me up and ravish me! hmm mmm!
I’ll buy anything he’s on the cover of!
What is it about a kilt?
Always save the best for last!!!
(Had a battle-Thorin screen shot cross my dash yesterday that made my nipple perk! I’ll repost it here tonight!!! That man has NO RIGHT to be this gorgeous, but I’m glad he is!)
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I think you were very wise to take a break from everything related to “house”, sometimes we just need to say “the heck with it, it will still be there tomorrow”. I do it a lot 🙂 Thank you for the lovely man candy, however, as you saved the best for last ( and you did as far as I am concerned) I will leave all the other goodies to the other ladies. You are right he has no right to be that gorgeous but he is… and I will take it!
I always save the best for last.
Yeah, the house will be there always. I do want to have it settled (meaning what boxes we still have are in the garage and the furniture and curtains are in place. )
Harry!! Lucas!!Wow!! Also your love at first sight Hobbit promo pic too!! Super treat today thank you!!
Glad you did nothing. I was out for the count yesterday with stomach issues and headache.. sometimes nothing is a lot of good thing!!
I needed to rest. I hit the ground exhausted 3 weeks ago and I just needed some ME time!
Yup!! Good that you did. Recharge those batteries!!
You know, these kids are really wonderful! Such a difference from my former place. Yeah, there are a few who don’t want to do certain things, but for the most part, they participate and there is a lot of laughter in the learning. I can’t smile enough!!!
That is so wonderful to hear! You certainly need less stress and it makes teaching them so joyful when they appreciate what you are doing instead of fighting, spitting at you, turning their backs to you, and all the other dastardly stuff those kids did last year…
I wouldn’t have made it another year there. I just wouldn’t have.
Oh we know. The stress of the school, kids, everything just not worth ruining your health … and Shady may take awhile to get to a place you are happy and that is fine… take it one step at a time just take care of you..
Man candy Monday will always be only Richard,but,Thorin does strange nice tingles to my system. fanning the hot flashes!!!!!
Dwarves aren’t supposed to be hawt, but this one certainly is and I wouldn’t look away from Fili, Kili, Dwalin or even Bofur!!!!
What a difference a new job can make in your life. As`someone said if you love what you do you never have to work a day in your life. So glad the new school is going so well the stress you were under could have led to some terrible in your health. Thorin?
I love that character. So gorgeous.
Today, we are doing name games with a LOT of movement and we’re sitting in the floor playing crash cans!!! I love my job!!!
Good on you for taking a rest at the weekend. Now you can start the week all refreshed. (Unless you are completely exhausted by the hot gorgeousness in your man candy folder *ooof*)
AnD I have a 3 day weekend!!!
Fantastic. Just this weekend, or are you always off on Mondays?
Just this weekend. It’s Labor Day, a National Holiday. I’ll have a Fall break in mid OCtober 4 or 5 days which I have doctor’s appointments and probably my car being serviced.
Ah, I see. At least those long weekends are something to look forward to!
I do look forward to them. My last school system pretty much took away ALL long weekends – especially 2nd semester, when we need them the most!!! Yeah, this school is in 1 week longer, but dayum! Sometimes you just need a day to recharge!!!
Sounds like you had a nice, relaxed weekend. Good decision!
Also lovely to hear you sound so much happier talking about your job. That’s one reason why I knew it was time for me to retire – I was no longer sitting in front of a class thinking “I love this!” but instead, wishing I was anywhere but there. My love for teaching was gone, and it had become a chore.
You certainly do leave the best until last (as much as I love a man in a kilt!) – darling Harry, my first RA love, and bless Peter and Fran for their vision of Thorin. How different things would have been if they’d gone with the original version!😉
I was sitting in the floor today, with my 5th grade and their crash cans and drum sticks and thinking… my God. How many people get to do this??? And live for it???
Of course, getting OUT of the floor is painful.
We were doing a sort of Get to Know you clapping/chanting game and I had one tell me – nope. Not doing it. and I told him – Dude, if you don’t do it, I’ll do one FOR you! He’s like okay fine.
so I jump in and chant – His name is ToeJam and he loves Ballet and he’s gonna love it for the rest of his life!
Needless to say, he screamed and then did it like he was supposed to. (He loves FOOTBALL!) HAH! Everyone did it after that!
I am soooo glad they decided Thorin was a sexy beast!!!!
Mmmm! Fish and chips! Glad things are going well and that you yo
… that you took a break!
He makes AWESOME Fish n CHips. I’m not a fish fan in any way, but these are sooooo good!!!!
Yeah, I needed to take a break, but now I need to get the gears moving. My parents are making – we want to come and see your house noises. I have a 4 day weekend in October, sooooo
We simply needs to unpack necessary boxes in the house and out and move the unnecessary boxes to the garage. Get the furniture in place. Finish the kitchen. Find the damn shower curtains and get them up. Same with curtains.
The place i ordered my living room curtains from shipped them to the wrong address!!!! It’s over an hour away!!! I can’t go and get them any time soon. Granted they are refunding my money and giving me an additional credit, but…. Damn! I need something over my living room windows.
I’m not a fish person either, but I do love me some fish and chips! Now that you’ve had a break, I’m sure it will go more quickly on the weekend. And yes, shower curtains and window curtains are kind of essential!
Well THAT”S what’s upset me!!! I had a box with my shower curtain and hooks, my bathrobe, my kindle, toilet paper, shampoo – the essentials. I packed it last. It went in my car last. I don’t know where it went when it came out of my car!!! It’s really pissing me off. I’ve been looking for it for 3 weeks now!
That’s pretty weird. Kindle, too? Must be around somewhere, though.
Yeah, I had them all in one box. I figured it would be right there in my trunk and taken straight to my room.
Nope. Nope. Not at all.
Maybe the first box out is now the one at the very back of the garage!
Sue I was thinking the same thing!! Maybe the trunk got unpacked first and you just put the boxes in the garage for safe keeping
I am amazed you remembered where you packed stuff in the boxes. In my move 8 years ago I just threw stuff into boxes because I ran out of time
I was fairly meticulous and labeled and number almost everything in the house. I will NOT move like this again. Next time, I’m moving in ONE truck, not three!
Right! So now you have TIME to go though all 50 boxes and toss stuff and give stuff away.. you know you had three trucks b/c of all the stuff right??
I KNOW why I had 3 trucks – I’m a packrat!!!
And as much as I would love to just deal and work my way back, I REALLY need the #1 and #2 boxes. I NEED my shower liner and kindle. I NEED my shoes!!!!!
Yes. I have almost 20 pairs of shoes and 5 pairs of boots packed away somewhere… I’m doing laundry this week so I’m going to NEED those shoes!!! Priority. #1 and #2 boxes first!!!!!
Shoot. My bedroom lamp is in the far back corner of the garage. I can see it but danged if I can get to it!
Can Spawn retrieve it today for you? Can he look for box 1 and 2? That would save you a lot of time tonight.
Pack rate I hear ya. Me too. I am going through stuff now trying to purge and clean up, Just messy not really hoarder although I have a lot of clothes I need to go through.
I have probably a dozen #1 boxes and about 20 or 25 #2 boxes. And MOST of them are on the far side of the garage!
Luckily, we left a path between them and everything else. I NEED to get my furniture in place! My cave isn’t set up (table, one or 2 small bookcases and an old student desk. Printer and MP3 record player) the family room (2 filing cabinets, couch, storage ottoman, big loooooooong bookcase) living room (2 bookcases) and put my bookcase in the dining room together. All of these have stuff on them and I’ll need to take them off to move them. Not to mention the 16 milk crates of record albums are ni the family room and I need to figure out space for them as well. The loooooooooong bookcase is probably going to go towards the kitchen by about 3 or 4 feet… and if that doesn’t work, it will have to go in the dining room and the 2 big lighthouse paintings and the wine glass holder will have to go somewhere else. The lighthouse paintings will PROBABLY go in the living room and I’ll just move the wine glass holder to another wall.
How are you moving the bookcases? Aren’t those heavy and you both could hurt yourselves?!! Well at least if he started looking through the boxes today he could stumble on them and put them in your bedroom so you can have them tonight.. save some time no?
He’s looking for them.
The bookcases – when they have NOTHING on them – are fairly light – just bulky and cumbersome. The BIG one will have to be finagled around one or two corners. It’s 10 feet long…
ummmm but please do not over exert yourself with your back problem and Spawn’s heart I mean recipe for disaster!! Don’t want it toppling over either!!
The 2 in the living room I can do by myself. Old and very light. The long one, we’ll do in segments. No lifting that one! We put flat cardboard on both ends and slide it where we want it! no lifting at all!
uhhh ok.. the last thing you need is to severely hurt your back .. just concerned.
I understand. The 2 in the living room only need to be moved maybe a foot or 2. one is down in front of the window and the other is in the middle of the room. I need to move the boxes on the wall and then put those 2 bookcases there. The Family room is NOT very wide, so I’m hoping I can just move the loooooooong bookcase down closer to the kitchen counter and the daybed forward and have room to get around. If not, we’ll put the bookcase on the cardboard sliders and slide it into the family room. No lifting necessary and the floors are slick. Just ask the cats! they can’t get traction! LOL!
ok sounds like a lot of work though!! Thank you for the visual of Lord T and GG zooming along the floor!! sweetie pies!!
nah, it’s come into the house somewhere. I have about 50 boxes scattered between the breakfast room, my room, the family room, Spawn’s cave, and the dining room. I’m FAIRLY certain the stuff in the dining room is old old old old stuff that will be mostly trashed. More than likely, it’s in the family room and something is on top of it. 😦
Well, I hope it turns up soon!
I do to!!! I need my shampoo and my bathrobe. Right now I’m living out of my scarfed trial and hotel shampoos (yeah, found those!) and ONE beach towel. Meh!
Listen sweetie those trial shampoos you can get a lot of mileage out of trust me!! They are still good from a long time ago!!
oh I know, but getting anything OUT of them after the first use….
and my bathrobe. 😦
ahh well that is what lounge wear is for or just freelancing au naturel especially if it is hot!!!
Remember, I have a son…. nooooo freelancing au naturel! LOL! Cats won’t care, but my son would be scandalized!
Hahahahaha yup. well not prancing around the house per se.. what about those tunics you have that are long enough for now.. bless those kitties!!
I don’t like putting on clothes when I’m wet. Missing my bathrobe. It’s ugly and big and comfy!
well there is a T-ow-e-l which you can wrap around you,. close your bedroom door and dancing around au naturel !! It works great!! I don’t do bathrobes anymore myself
The towel barely goes around my girls and my fat behind. I don’t want to drip all over the floor. 😦
I like my bit ugly comfy bathrobe!
hahhahahaha !! bless the girls!! no ‘fat” bad word bad word!! You have hard wood floorsI am sooooo envious! Try walking on carpet from the bathroom to the bedroom
I have. I’ve found the hardword floors are cold;.l I keep houseshoes on all the time
I’ll take your hardwood floors anytime… I wear slip ons shoes in the house too
My feet stay very cold (poor circulation from diabetes) so I have to keep them warm. The hardwood floors makes it harder.
socks what about socks? Do you wear socks to bed? I will in the winter
speaking of diabetes how’s Stabby stabby coming along?
I DO wear socks in the winter to bed. Soooo unsexy! LOL! But yeah. I have warm slippers my grandmother made me years ago (she crocheted) and I have some winter footies I live in. There’s also the When Pigs Fly Houseshoes Spawn got me.
When I remember, I do do Stabby Stabby. Right now, My schedule is off. I need to find my pill cases. It’s a pain to dig out 15 different tablets and pills twice a day…
well there was Paul with his white sock on.. pretty sexy hunky man..
I get hot with the socks on and they ultimately come off during the night.
I would focus first on finding the pill cases with the meds before you do anything else sweetness…
That drives me nuts – men who do the horizontal bop with their socks on!
Mine stay on. My feet are like ice anymore. Not good.
Horizontal bop!! 😂😂😂👍👍oh how I wish I would happily volunteer w Richard
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