Resolutions

A resolution simply just means I resolve myself to do something right? Psh, I do that all that time, I resolve to get something accomplished everyday, some days I win, other days I don't. I'm also going to stick to the policy of one day at a time; therefore, resolving myself to do anything for any amount of time longer than that period is not in my vocabulary.

The week is finally over and the new one beginning - thank goodness. End of term for school (stress), returned mail at the office (stress), having a sinus infection with bronchitis (stress)....sigh. I resolve myself to return to my president of the mean mother club status each new term as I oversee my son's report cards of the previous term. If I had brought home their grades I would not be alive to write this...*sigh. Anthony will graduate next year and I still have yet to figure out how to impress the importance of school and grades in his head. Each term they promise to do better and for half a term they do..than something slips or idk honesty, but they digress and never make it to climb back up. We are a household that does not even do allowance; therefore, monetary rewards for grades is not a possibility. I did not receive money for grades growing up either, but I also had the fear of my parents if I brought even a B- home. I do not want my kids to have that "fear" of me, but I would like a little respect for themselves if not me when it comes to their grades. At work we have installed a new financial system for the Hospital/Clinic and Professional sides, to replace the two systems that they used seperately. I am still receiving returned mail on the old systems that I have to work; yet I have new workqueues in the new system as well. To replace my two monthly reports of bad addresses, I now have a daily workqueue. Welllllllllllll, my reports total are about maybe 700 accts total for the MONTH....my WQ hit 1400 something FRIDAY...ugh. Oh sorry, Happy Happy Joy Joy - "are they gone yet? are they gone yet? oh good I stop smiling. Man, are my cheeks sore!" (Barbie from ToyStory 2 for those of you who are not so Disney Fanatical). If the Bad Address WQ were all I had to work, I would not be stressed, but than I have the Hospital Lien WQ to which I share with a co-worker and yeah, it busted out at 900+ Friday. 0_0 Really?!?!? Come- on! I sent my boss an email on Friday, (that's my version of a sick call - a sick email) and told him about how my sinus infection was now a sinus migraine, sorry about my WQ lists but I was taking a sick day. I could go on and on and on about the added Osteo-arthritis that the weather has kicked into overdrive, the wheezing lungs from the smog, but......I won't - aren't you happy? :D

Yesterday was lazy and icky being sick but it ended I suppose on a positive note. My online friend that I hadn't talked to since early December...we kind of chatted. Didn't last long, but atleast it was positive. I realize the same as I did earlier last year, I'm the one with the hang up's and he's totally oblivious for which I am grateful. I just need to learn to forgive myself and let go easier. Not letting go of people, of my mistakes - I think it'll take long past the grave for me to be able to do that...just saying. One of my girlfriends that has come back into my life brought over the yummiest treat for us the other night - she knew I was stressed. Ginger cookies with pumpkin ice cream filling with a drizzle of caramel - mmmmmmmm, they were scrumptious. My girlfried across the street surprised me yesterday with a book that I couldn't find at the library, from the set she'd gotten me addicted to. Lol, the stinker went to the used book store to find it for me! I love these ladies.

It is coming to close on Sunday now, I stayed home from church to relax- see if I can get feeling any better before I have to be in SL all day Tuesday while the kids are off. I read the book Pat brought me over, I am half way through it- wahoo! >] I caught up on Becky's blog (sorry Beck- I just have a hard time calling you Rebecca) and than her daughter Shannyn's. These women make me laugh. It was so fun to read their blogs and since Beck can read this and Shannyn can't, I will say that Shannyn reminds me of a mix of Beck and Debbie from HS. No wonder I love her! :)

Recaptures for 2011

Instead of making resolutions that I know I'll break, I've decided to revert - sorta. I've decided that it would be nice to see if I still enjoy some of the things I used to .... like cooking/baking. When Olivia was born I was a Food Network WORM...seriously, when she was two she could name you all the chef's on the televison (Emeril, Rachel, Tyler..). Back than I sold Pampered Chef and was constantly looking for cooking tips to share, a bit of food knowledge to throw out, and any presentation idea's I could. However, I started Pampered Chef because I wanted the cookware and stoneware! My business lasted about 4 1/2 yrs and than I started my mental/hormonal mess. It's nice to start thinking about cooking and the thought of EXPERIMENTING! ha ha.

If you noticed, I have tabs now at the top of my blog. (Yay Em for teaching me how!) There will soon be one up that is "Grisseh's Goodies". Recipes from me! The recipes of the stuff that worked and actually tasted good! ha ha ha. I have a friend that is one of the main chef's in a Harmon's Deli. He keeps bringing cheese balls and I keep devouring them. >.> So, now I'm excited to start making cheese balls! He told the main ingredients - and than I'm off!!! Any volunteer food tasters out there? :D

One of the other things that has gotten me back into the cooking/baking bug is the book series I'm reading. The author is Diane Mott Davidson. They are a very fun read, they are whodunit's discovered by a caterer! Yes, she even INCLUDES the recipes in each book! How fun is that?!?! I haven't tried any yet but some sound really, really yummy and I'm very tempted. However, she uses a lot of unsalted butter, which I use non of, so I guess that would have to be first on my grocery list.

If I'm going to do own goody recipe's, I'm gonna have to start naming them. Ugh. So, the taste test volunteers also get to volunteer for name submissions :D. The first winner doesn't even know she submitted - lol. My niece Heather has been asking me for my pie recipe for heavens, maybe 5 yrs? It was something I threw together and hoped it was edible and good for Thanksgiving. Well, according to one brother's children it was the RAGE and a must have recipe. I finally wrote it down for Heather, I hope I write it down the same here on the blog - baha ha - that would be so like me >P. (Yes, I'm a dash of this, throw that in cook.) I digress....the recipe name is: "Auntie's Famous Peanut Butter Pie". Enjoy! Paix.

What a week....

The week before Christmas has become more and more hectic with each passing year. Drives me insane since that is the time I like to finalize ....EVERYTHING...gifts, goodies, idea's..you get the idea. However, it seems that the school system has decided that they too MUST finalize before the break >/. Two concerts (one a freakin' 3 hrs long 0_0), dates, basketball games, work and yeah - I decided on Christmas Eve that I was just ...done. I had no energy left to try to accomplish the items on MY list and my nerves were on dangerous edge - not willing to come down.

We drove to Bountiful Christmas Eve morning and had brunch with my siblings. It's always nice to get together but sorry, I still feel like I don't fit in. James, as always, asked his "deep" questions that he wanted everyone to answer. This time it was "What do you think you were fore-0rdained for" and "What in 2011 can you do different for your family?". I was grumpy, I was tired, and all my brain could come up with was..."I have NO idea". Therefore, I passed. I didn't say and that might have made one or two siblings unhappy with me but it's a free country right? Why DO I have to answer those questions if I don't want to and can't think of anything? I know, I'm worrying about something silly and it's past and I would be told to just let it go - ok, it's gone. =] On the way home, we stopped to get a dragon heat lamp and some other goodies to go with the fact that I wasn't cooking my normal full Christmas Eve dinner. As we pulled up in the drive-way, my brother-in-law and his family pulled in behind us. We slapped the turkey in the oven, got the munchies out and went downstairs to watch "Despicable Me". ha ha ha ha "butt" ha ha ha ha...Light Bulb....No. Does that tell you I LOVED IT?!?! I actually saw it - that was the other thing that week - with my sisters on Wednesday afternoon. Dean wanted to see it and my inlaws hadn't so we rented it. All of us loved it - great movie. - side note: I kept seeing little "cameo's" of other movies, like Monsters, Inc, Nightmare Before Christmas, etc. Take another watch and see if you don't see them.-

The inlaws went home and we opened one Christmas present each - Anthony opened his "Womp'em " gloves, Ben opened his new micro foam pillow, Olivia opened her Snuggy, Dean opened a family gift from Boo - a cute new ornament from NY, and I opened a beautiful inspirational calendar from Reba. We read the Christmas story from Luke and all went to bed. We received a call around 10 pm from my sister. She and her family were spending Christmas at home this year instead of at their cabin, but, her hubby had forgotten his phone so they traveled up to the cabin to retrieve it and just check on things. They got stuck in a snowdrift. The plow dude in his cat pulled them out and proceeded to pull them into a LARGER snowdrift. Needless to say, they were stuck at the cabin overnight. Dean and Anthony went to their rescue at 8:30 Christmas morning. Ben and I got up around 11:30 am - ahhh and Olivia wandered around, watched tv and just stared at the presents under the tree until Dean and Anthony returned. My one disappointment was that the new "Fire Drums" Hoodie for Anthony was an exact fit - ugh - hoodies are supposed to be baggy. So, sending that one back this week and hoping that before his birthday in August they get more in to ship him a new one. bah
We all just kind of did nothing the rest of Christmas day, it was wonderful. Leftover turkey, rolls, candy, etc was all out to munch on throughout the day and watched "The Last Airbender". Okay, that movie gets 10 thumbs DOWN - I don't recommend it at all, it was hard to keep my Ang fans in the room to even finish the movie. On a good note, we finished the night watching "Cake Wars"- 3 episodes in a row! We have decided who we want to win and it continues tonight (Monday) - go Megan!

This week should be much better. I've already finished reading a book "When Christmas Comes", a very easy read slight romance. It was nice. I have the Hunger Games and one other upstairs to read, plus 2 caterer ones from my Pat. I have Mon-Wed off, go into SL to work on Thurs and than have Fri off - lol WEIRD - but that's okay! Time off is awesome. =] Anthony has a full week of "hang outs" which he is excited for, Shannyn is here video gaming today, not sure who is coming on Wed (don't know her), and hopefully Arianna for movie marathons at the end of the week. =] This is what I prefer, no single girlfriend to cause drama but lots of cute friends that are girls and just like to have fun with him. =] YAY.