The weekend
Monday, January 7th, 2008My weekend started off with warm weather. The temps shot up to the upper 30s yesterday, actually 41F degrees. Saturday’s temp was fairly warm in the morning. I went for a walk with the boys. It was theirs and my first morning walk since i returned from my vacation. (Yep, I got lazy since I got home.) DB went for his trading classes which runs from Saturday through Friday. I was home alone with the boys.
I did my usual weekend things – groceries and running errands. When I got home, I made a cake, a recipe from my sis’ blog – sour cream lemon cake. Her’s looks just so perfect, however, mine looked super duper pathetic which does not worth the camera. I kept the cake though. It’s a waste to throw it away. It tastes good, but the texture is not soft and I left it in the oven for too long, or I had the temp in the oven too high. But whatever it is, the cake is half gone. DB pretty much inhaled it.
Sunday came and I regretted sleeping in till 8:40 a.m. Once I got up, I put a load of laundry, had my breakfast/lunch and when I was done eating and cleaning up, it was already 10. Checked some emails, Facebook and time went by really quickly. I wanted to brush the boys and bathe them, but ran out of time. I was only able to brush them which they really like it. All the old summer coat on them kept flying out from them. They would sit there and enjoy the brushing. Of course once I was done with them, it was play time.
And from play time with them to vacuuming the whole house, to an hour walk with the boys, then cooked dinners for the week and dinner for the night. It’s just never ending. When I was done, DB came home at 5:50 p.m. and it was time to eat.
Seems like I work harder during the weekend than during the weekdays. When I was done watching Amazing Race, I was tired, but I made a mistake of surfing the web and deciding and reading on working part-time via online resources for extra money. That totally stirred me up and when I got to bed, I could not sleep, probably took me a good 45 minutes to wind down.
Oh and then, Cooper is really having trouble getting up and laying down. Poor boy, he’s only 7 years old (49 in human age), he’s already suffering from arthritis. I might have to send him to the vet for an arthritis prescription for him. His limping and pain could be from the weekend play with Ranger and rough-housing with me. I will have to see how this week goes.
Back to the grind stone today with slippery road conditions – much of the snow melted during the weekend, roads were wet and the temperature dropped last night and water turned to ice. I really have to work on the reports this week and the rest of the month. The new year has begun, and affirmative action plans need to be written for all locations. Can’t complain much coz it’s paying the bills for me and putting food in my mouth!!
