so, i dont think i will be mobile uploading. it has to be sent via txt mesage, and the limit of letters is still the same. so i f you see my posts from yesterday, you have to read them backwards to understand anything.

i am work free until 10AM today. i really dislike the 10 - 6:30 shift, but can't really do anything about it for now. work went well yesterday. the 3 day weekend i have every other weekend, have been and will contine to be very hard to come back to work from. any and all problems from the weekend are left for monday morning. ah, the joys of management. i was able to work through all 7 or so problems and get them fixed totally, or partially! go me!

i think my favorite part of my job, well other than helping people spend hundreds of dollars on a layout i choose for them, i cuttin mats. it is a very fun process and i enjoy getting to layout the lines and use the fancy cutter to do all the work. it is fascinating to get all your beveled edges to line up and come out clean. i cut a mat with 5 openings in it the other day! it was quite the feat. in middle school we had to do a bit of drafting, which really piqued my interest. i remember as a young girl using a ruler to make shapes and patterns. That is what i get paid to do now :) what fun!

i had a good 3 day weekend. Friday i cleaned a house, repotted my indoor plants, headed to get mom and go to Liz's to get some popcans/bottles she had been collecting-it filled the truck bed! after that we moved a couch from mom's to my house. we got pizza for dinnner and after braiding Hannah's hair and munching on pizza we went on a car ride to view flood damaged neighborhoods. it is a sobering reminder of the fleetingness of life and physical material items. a good reminder for us to continue to pray for these people.

saturday i awoke with the dawn, jumped out of bed(literally) and took Chapman for a walk. i even let him off his leash to run in the field at Erskine. i do love early mornings, something i got from my Dad! after our walk, which was quite chilly. i started to clean out our garage. we still have some things left from the previous owners that had to go through and pitch some. when Michael got up, we loaded the truck, another full load, and got ready to go to the dump. before the dump we headed to mom's so Michael could get her lawn mower started. we had to get into the garage, and that was hard for both mom and myself. seeing traces of Dad, and knowing he didnt take anything with him was another reminder of fleeting material items...

Michael started the mower right up! it was great. mom had to go to Chick Lits and we headed to the dump, dumped and headed home. our plan was to load up some things to take to the cabin and to Michaels parents cabin, and mow out there. we got a bit sidetracked here and i ended up filling our yardy with yard waste and a tree i nippered down with my fancy nippers. all the while, michael was scrubbing down the innerds from our cabin fridge that had molded a bit. i also had him scrub down my NEW laying out chair! new, that we recovered it from flooded ace hardware and never cleaned it. it is clean now!

we headed to the in-laws cabin to find them not there. so we dropped off their plunder and headed to our vacation villa. michael got the mower started, and Hannah and i picked up sticks and started a fire. i did a tiny bit of landscaping-or weeding, landscaping sounds much more interesting. and the mower wheel fell off. that was the end of our cabin trip.

i have to be going. i'll post about mother's day later, maybe. im headed to cash in my $20 worth of bedding plants/flowers! yee haw!