Seven Quick Takes

1. The end of school has officially kicked my sweet behind once again.  I look at the calendar at the beginning of May and say to myself :  "Self, You only have four weeks left without the boys.  You want them back to spend more leisurely time with them , but you want to GET STUFF DONE.  So, go, get to it, move, up-and-at-'em."  Then, next thing I know, it is the last week of school and I am at somebody's classroom every day and nothing, I mean NOTHING, is finished.  And I am exhausted as if everything got done.  So...on to the next point.

2. I was able to get a HUGE amount of stuff out of my house in our garage sale. (Remember this 40-bag challenge photo?  I had more than double that.)  My goal was to make enough money to pay for karate camp for the boys.  And we did!  Plus some!  Paid for one payment on our CSA also.  Cool.  Also made roughly 472 trips to goodwill-type drop-offs.  Well, maybe not that many, but I was going every day for a week so it felt like that many.  So in truth, I did get a lot done.  I was not being grumpy in #1 above.  Maybe not.

3. I have 15 tomato plants..Yes FIFTEEN tomato plants:  beefsteak, roma and cherry.  I decided to try to start tomatoes from seeds this year.  The boys and I planted one egg carton each of the three types.  Since I have nothing next to a green thumb, I figured I would get two, maybe three, plants from each egg carton.  Well, the seed gods smiled on me and I have a wonderful amount of green viney-like plants.  I better stock up on canning jars.  <huge smile>  Just a couple in this photo, not sure why I did not take the whole shebang.

4. The main part of my flowerbeds are mulched.  Clap-clap-clap.  Whoosh, that was a lot of work.  I think I have put down six yards, roughly.  There are still the around the tree type mulching jobs that need to be done.  But to do those, I need 10 gallons of Round-Up.  Or maybe more with all the weeds that are there.  But I am proud that what is near the house is looking good.  I can't believe I did all that, and liked it.  I couldn't do it for a career, but it was very rewarding.

5.  I only Pinned two or three things today.  How's that for a confession?  Forgive me Father, for I have.....Pinned.  Chuckle!

6. LegoMaster sent me over the edge today by grabbing Buzz's lovey and ripping it.  We have a house rule that favorite items are not touched unless one has been lost and you are the recovery crew.  LegoMaster has been walking the fine line of kindness (good-v-bad) with his brother as of late and I am at my tolerance limit.  When I heard the wailing from the next room, I knew something was terribly wrong.  I find LM running out the door and Buzz crying like.... well, like his best, most precious thing was ripped.  Once I got LegoMaster back inside, I held up one of his favorite Legos and told him to "kiss it goodbye" because I was about to put it on eBay.  I hate when I go wild, but this kid must learn.  And if it is learned in the price of selling one Lego set, then I guess that is a price I will have to pay.

Drum Roll Please, because #7 is really cool.....

7.  I believe I have lost 15 pounds!!!  I say it this way because I had forgotten to weigh myself before my sugar fast during lent, so I am just estimating from what I had weighed last.  Some of my clothes no longer fit because they are TOO BIG, not the other way around.  I would still like to loose 15 more, maybe 25.  If I loose 25 then I would be at the weight I left college which is totally obtainable.  But I would be happy with 15.  If I keep up with the healthy eating and exercising by way of karate (I got my next belt, purple, last night BTW) and moving mulch.  

I guess I felt like a lot of capital letters today.  Ta ta for now.