Question

Does anyone know if there is a thingy you can get to hook your camera phone up to the computer so that you can download pic from the phone to the computer???

Jenny VS. The Oven

I tackeled the oven. I was going to clean it yesterday but after all of the horror stories I have heard about oven cleaning, I just couldn't do it. I was much too tired from packing 5 whole boxes yesterday. Don't judge. They were pretty big boxes. I did nothing yesterday. Justin was home most of the day and I spent the time just vegging out on the couch with him. And then when he went back to work for a while, I took a nap while the kids took a nap! But I did pack 5 boxes. Okay? So last night, I sprayed the oven with Easy Off. I just about hacked up a lung... but I thought that if it was that strong, it must work. So it did it's magic over night. And this morning I got on my grubby clothes and my brand new, big long gloves, armed with a scrubby sponge. I scrubbed. I rinsed. I scrubbed, scrubbed, scrubbed. I rinsed. Now I am done. The oven is clean. There are some spots that no amount of oven cleaner and elbow grease would get off. But it is sparkly. And I feel confident the landlord will accept my offering to the oven gods. I feel like I just ran a marathon. I need a nap. Oven cleaning is hard work! I will not be cooking in the oven again until we move. And if anyone even THINKS about using that oven, they will have to pay...

Prayers

I have a request for all you praying kind out there. My friend has a family member who just found out his son has cancer in his kidney. The little boy is 4 and undergoing tests today to see if it has spread. So please say a prayer for the Norwood family that their son can be healed and that the cancer has not spread. If not, they can remove the infected kidney and he should recover!! So please, remember this family when you are praying today. It makes us remember how precious life is, and how precious are our little children. Thanks!!!

Today

I have so much to do, and yet I am here, on the computer. I have so much packing. I can't believe we are moving in a week. It is not the actual moving that I hate, it is the cleaning... I will have to clean this apt from top to bottom all by myself. But I am going to do it in small doses. I think today I will clean the oven. While Caroline is home to entertain her brother. I am babysitting tomorrow and Thursday, so I won't be able to do it tomorrow. And Caroline starts school on Wednesday. I think I am still in denial about that. She is getting too big. It makes me a little sad and little happy! She is so excited that she can hardly stand it!!! She keeps asking when school starts. I wonder how she will do with all day school. We are very fortunate that we don't have school supply lists. We just have to pay a one-time $20 fee and the school buys all the supplies for the kids. That is much better than most of my friends have to deal with! Anyway, I should probably go take a shower and get going. I did make french toast for breakfast. I did walk this morning. I am just not very motivated to do much else. Ok, here I go. I am!!! I will get up now and go get ready and clean and pack and go to pick up my medication and go pay school fees and clean the oven. I am going.... right... now!

New Phone

So I got a new phone and it is cute!!! it is a cool silver camera phone! It was totally free! I guess I lucked out with when I signed up!!! So I have my cool new phone and I am so cool now. No more White Trash Girl who can't afford a new phone!!! Yea me! And we are paying LESS than we did for our phone from Louisiana. That is so awesome. I am pumped!

Phones

Well, we have to get a new cell phone. (Sorry, Vicki!) I guess we have been costing Cingular too much money by calling "off network." Which means they have no Cingular service in Idaho. We can call, but we can't get a local number. So tomorrow we have to go get a new phone. This will be our primary phone when we move. No more land line. We need to save a little money. So, if you want my new phone number, give me a call on my home phone before we move on the 28th! Or you can email me. This is such a pain, but it does mean I get a new phone!!! Yea! If you haven't seen my phone in the last year, it is broken. Not broken enough to not work, (darnit!) but broken enough to make me look like a white trash girl who can't afford a new phone. Ok, that is who I am! And it wasn't even my fault!!! Justin had the phone... he NEVER has the phone. He did not put it in his shirt pocket, or even his front pocket... He put it in his BACK, jeans pocket. He totally broke the screen. Anyway, it has been like this for almost a year, and even though I told him it was only like $20 for a replacement, he didn't think it necessary to replace it. It was purely my own vanity. Yes, I own that. I am vain. But NOW!!! I get a NEW PHONE! Yea!!!! I wish I could get a cute pink one or something. But I have to get the cheapest. That's ok. I will live. I don't need frivolous things like pink phones. I just WANT it!

School Days

Well, Justin's parents are coming this evening. The house is clean. Justin stacked the boxes for me. It looks better. I got Caroline registered yesterday. Her teacher is new so noone knows anything about her. I hope she will be good. But I bought Caroline a denim jacket today. She has wanted one for the first day of school. She is so excited, she has been wearing it all day! Less than a week until school starts! Then my baby will be going to school all day! It is a bitter-sweet time. I am so glad I will have all day without fighting children. I will have more time to get things done. But this is also the beginning of the rest of Caroline's life, at least for the next 12 years. I was talking to my cousin, Nicole, about it. I feel bad that she has that to look forward to. That she will be going to school, all day, everyday, forever! That she will never be able to be a little girl again and stay home with Mommy. But my wise, dear, Nicole said that we did it! We went to school all day, everyday, we had working mom's, and we LOVED school! School was the best! And by the end of the summer we were so ready to go back. We made all of our friends at school. We learned so much, not just school junk, but about life. This is all so true. It is just a part of life. Caroline will love school too. She will love learning, and she will love the social aspect of it. I just need to get over my own hang ups and remember how great school was! Speaking of school... I am signing up for a water aerobics class and a yoga class. Justin told me not to over do it. (I think he just said that b/c it is at 6:30 in the morning, and he will have to be with the kids...) But I gained 7 lbs almost literally over night! All of my hard work, foiled! I don't know how or why this happened. But it will not happen again. I am going to exercise my butt off... LITERALLY! I lost 2 of those 7 last night, but it is frustrating to get on that scale and see that I weigh 5 more than I did last week. So, I have not really lost 21 lbs anymore. I am back to 16. UGH!!! Will this EVER get easier???

Nothing new...

I packed again today. Can you just believe it? I know it is shocking. I couldn't believe it myself. I mean, such a fun, exciting activity as packing is so unlike me! Tomorrow I have to clean the house, as best I can. I will clean around the boxes. I asked Justin what we were going to do with all of them. And he just shrugged. I guess they will stay in the living room in front of the book cases. I also have school registration tomorrow. I am on the PTO (same as PTA) board, and so I have to be at the registration for 2 hours to help with sign ups. I am excited to get involved. I didn't do one thing at Caroline's school last year and I felt very guilty. So I decided to call the PTO president to see if I could help out with anything and she asked me to be on the board! So that's cool. But I have a busy 2 weeks ahead of me. Maybe I will have something fun and exciting to report. But I doubt it...

Boring stuff

Well, I did pack yesterday. I got all of the rest of the books packed. And what happened after I did that? My friend came over to return a book and wanted to borrow another one! I felt bad because all of my books are packed. Oh well. I also got a kitchen box packed and the linen closet packed. At least the things that I don't need. Today I will pack more things in the kitchen. I am making progress. I have discovered a little exercise secret. If I eat a yogurt before I go walking in the morning, I have a lot more energy and I can have a more intense and longer workout. I read that the protein and carb combination in yogurt really provides great energy for a workout. I was very skeptical because I would prefer to eat after, but it really works. I don't get as tired as fast and I feel like I can go a lot longer. My blogs are so boring lately! My life is boring, lately. Not that it was especially stimulating before... but at least it was a little amusing. So, I apologize for my lack of creativity. Maybe I should start making things up... I was born... in Africa... just kidding... anyway, hopefully something exciting will happen soon.

Packing...or not

What am I doing here sitting on the computer? I should be packing. I should be out in the storage getting boxes to pack. But I am sitting here, on the computer. I am super at procrastination. I am the queen!!! I don't know why I just can't pack. I don't feel like it. It is not that I hate packing. I actually quite enjoy it really. But I can't bring myself to do it. I packed one box today. I just can't find things to pack. I have a ton of books I still need to pack, but I can't find the book boxes. They have to be rather small, or else we won't be able to lift them... That is my excuse. Is it lame? I know, it is very lame. I'm sorry. I just don't feel like packing. We are moving 2 weeks from today and I have 8 boxes packed. Just about 842 to go. Anyway, I should stop typing right now, go out to storage, and get those boxes. But I don't wanna! I need to do laundry too. I told Justin yesterday that for the next two weeks, the house will be a mess. He is just going to have to deal with it. But he has a retreat! He can go hang out in his office all day, I am the one who has to sit here and deal with this mess! I can't stand it! I would love to just clean. But what would be the point? I have to clean on Wed anyway because Justin's parents are coming on Thursday. So for now, I will just have to have a messy, dirty, yucky house. Oh, by the way, I gained 4 pounds. I don't know where it came from, I certainly did not go looking for it. I am hoping it is just water weight. Yeah, I'll keep telling myself. It may be big bones, or muscle... right...