I am in a pissy mood this afternoon.

Lee is gone to Chicago. He still hasn't gotten a percentage check, which makes me think he's not going to be given a percentage of the opinion letter fees. Of course, I don't know that they have gotten paid for that, I'm sure he's clueless, but of course he hasn't asked for it. ARGH, this makes me crazy.

What I've eaten today (trying to eating higher protein, less carbs and grazing):
1/2 whole wheat bagel with earth balance
couple spoonsful of peanut butter
two cups coffee with silk creamer
1 piece pumpkin bread
1 bowl bean & turkey chili with 1 piece cornbread and sour cream
1 crunchy granola bar (leftover from Will's snack) and one trail mix bar
glass chocolate almond milk

I am also pissy because the weather forecast keeps promising rain and cooler temps, but it never happens. It's still hot and fairly muggy, and the rains have been brief, light showers. I am sick to death of the hot weather. It is making me perpetually cranky.

Tomorrow I need to:

deposit paycheck
go to Farmer's Market (don't forget fruit for preschool, and stuff for guac)
mail two packages

Michael is being a horrible pill tonight.

I have no idea what his deal is, but he seems unable to get a grip.

I took them to Stone Mt. playground today; it was quite hot and crowded.

I am seeing lots of GREEN in my auctions. I wish they would always do so well! Plus I have been having pretty regular store sales.

Tonight for supper - sundried tomato pesto spaghetti.

Boys are in school tomorrow - HURRAY. I am getting a pedicure tomorrow morning and I can't hardly wait!

I got a lot done today.

Will was well enough to go to preschool today, so I had Michael do some worksheets and I made a pot of chili for the crockpot, two loaves of pumpkin bread, and a batch of egg salad. I also made the beds, put a load of clothes into the dryer and a load into the washer. I packaged up three things to be mailed tomorrow, paid bills, and did my online banking.

The windows are open because it has been overcast all day...it's still and a little humid, but cool enough. I am about to make a pan of cornbread to go with our chili.

Trish, god I love her, but she drives me crazy.

Went to the Finders Keepers bag sale this morning - she called me while I was there and was just chattering away while I was trying to shop.

Then I called her back when I got home and she was jumping from topic to topic like a pea in a frying pan.

We are going to that damned birthday party this afternoon at American Adventures - ugh. Why did they have to have it so far away?

And school is cancelled by that moron Sonny Perdue in order to "conserve fuel". What a jackass. I am pissed. The only thing that could make it worse is if preschool is cancelled.

I had a great lunch today.

Big salad - romaine, cherry tomatoes from the garden (about all that's left out there), grated carrots, cucumber, crumbled turkey bacon & blue cheese dressing.

Will had a mini bagel with Earth Balance, strawberries, 2 slices turkey bacon and some peach soy yogurt smoothie.

Finally today we have some relief from the scorching sun. There's some nice cloud cover today which makes it bearable in the house without the a/c. We need some rain so badly...and some cooler temps. I swear I am sick of the sun.

I got out our T. Rowe Price mutual fund statements today finally. It turns out that they are IRA's. I registered to access them online and they seem to be doing well. All of Lee's is in Science & Technology; I have one account of a thousand or so dollars in that fund. The rest of mine is in Mid-Cap Growth. It also turns out they only require a minimum of $50 to deposit, like Clark Howard was talking about. I feel much more in control of things now that I have done that.

Saturday night.

We ate at Zocalo tonight. It's my curse to go there every time when I am not that hungry. Now I feel hugely fat.

Went to the Goodwill today, spent about three hours shopping. I was trying to stock up so that I can list this week - maybe I'll go on Friday, but I have enough to keep me busy Monday and Wednesday. I got a pile of stuff, though the lady overcharged me for some of it. I got it all sorted, inventoried, and all the stuff I am going to list this week is photographed, edited & uploaded to SD.

UGH.

I am having such a bad day. It started out nice, Robin Hentz invited me to join her and Beth Thompson at Jupiter Coffee, but it's been all downhill from there. When I checked my email, I had an email from the slow=paying lady who won my brown Chico's skirt that I had sent pants instead of a skirt. I had a bid on the pants auction and I had to cancel it. I was doing my sweater shaver over a Chico's tunic sweater and found a tiny hole. I was unable to salvage the Harley-Davidson sweater with the missing jewelry in the sleeves. I looked over my Berek, drying on a towel, and discovered that some of the colors had run. I went all the way over to Kroger to get gas and they were out. I am so darn tired I could hurl, after playing musical beds last night. Tomorrow is the preschool picnic, one of my least favorite things to do. I need to go thrifting SO bad, because I am so low on inventory and we are so broke. Plus, it hasn't rained in over two weeks, and everything is dry and brown, and the relentless sun is wearing me out. And all this is on top of Lee being gone all week. Please let my luck change soon!

Am I making the right decision...

shutting down my other blog? Probably, but I think I might miss it, for a while anyway.

Been doing pretty good w/the AC - I'm able to turn it off in the morning when I get up, and leave it off until noon at least. The upstairs gets pretty warm in the late afternoon, so I have to shut the windows then and turn it on.

Low on inventory - MUST get to the thrift. I've got some stuff in bins, but not enough.

I'm worried about Will's two front teeth. Are they decaying? If they are it's very subtle, but in certain lights, it looks like they are chalky white with a little bit of brown near the gum.

Nice day, yummy day.

As Will would have said a year ago. Warm and sunny, but with a nice breeze all day. I've had the air off all day. I also didn't go anywhere in the car - walked to the PO, then to school to get M.

Sold my first Misook for $70.99; listed the one I found at the Last Chance yesterday, today, and it is already bid up to $43.

Will starts preschool tomorrow. He is very excited but he keeps asking if he can bring Sir Jayko to share.

Today at the playground I chatted for a few minutes with Vandy and she said that Lucey, her daughter, said that Michael and Lily were the "smartest kids in the class". He sure does love playing with Corbin and the other kids after school, yet he is just as happy playing with Elizabeth too. I am so lucky to have such a smart, sweet, personable boy, and such a handsome one, too. He's so tall and slim, with such a sweet face, nice blonde hair and beautiful brown eyes.

Got lots done today.

Including a bunch of computer stuff - backed up photos and documents, then deleted them from the hard drive; disk cleanup and defragging; ran adaware; copied six months of my blog into WP, then onto CD. Then I entered a bunch of items into my spreadsheet. I also folded and put away three loads of laundry.

Tomorrow morning: Last Chance Thrift.