Well, I returned to work today after a very short (albeit a 3 day) weekend! It's reports week so I'm busy busy and having to add even more process stuff in to get it done.
So - what will I do tonight? Well, I'm only like 4 months behind on my financial accounts (reconciling, not paying)....so I think I will try to at least get that accomplished tonight. Tomorrow night (Depending on the weather) I will go to Macclesfield and help Dad clean up the yard. Those two massive oaks make the biggest mess during storms and during the normal leave dropping time of year. He needs the yard cleared so he can use his new mower to mow the fast growing lawn. With all this rain we're getting...storm after storm. AND I need to go out in my backyard and get more persimmons up. I've put a bunch of them in the freezer to process later. I hope to get them all processed and back in the freezer.
The process is pretty interesting. You have to wipe any dirt off of these small orbs of fruit and then you have to peel back the skin and take a 'nip' out of them to make sure they are ripe as not ripe = sour. This has to be done so that 'one bad apple doesn't spoil the whole bunch' kind of thing. Once this is done, then you have to 'mash' them up in a food mill, keep the pulp and put it in a container and in the freezer to use later. The skins and such are thrown away.
Well, I found out last night that you can put these little fellows unprocessed into your freezer and process them when you're ready. I'm all about that. LOL!
I awoke this morning and turned the TV on to the news as I usually do, however, there was Tornado activity in Eastern NC (yet again). I went to the Grocery Store on the way home (Dang I forgot to buy Deli turkey and the teens live off that). Anyway, I got soaked coming out from the Dollar Store (located beside the Food Lion). I'd gone in to get Chaos (the Red Nosed Pit Bull 40 pound puppy) a new toy. He's destroyed his others. I felt sorry for him last night chewing on the carcus of a small animal (cloth) that had lost all of it's stuffing (Thanks to Chaos)....So I gave him a rope with a ball on it and TADAH two hours later and he has already chewed the ball up. HA HA HA! Sad thing about the storms, heard tomorrow will be even worse for us.
Worries, Worries, Worries, Worries, Worries.... I sure do miss the good old days when I had fun and I had down time and I had a life. WHAT HAPPENED? Oh I remember....it's been one huge wicked roller coaster life since I can remember. I felt this way once before. After the flood (Floyd), when everyone's life went back to 'normal' and there was plenty and there was fun and there was a good life....and mine sucked! I was fixing things up, trying to keep it together, losing my mind and missing Megan's childhood. So - a decade later and I've gone through more than I thought I was capable.....but I'm not out of the woods yet. Oh please GOD help me keep it together one more year or less!!!
So - I'll go out to the car (Oh did I mention that since the storms weekend before last), we of course have these butt-holes coming into the neighborhood (cause we get discovered during times like this) and stealing from cars. I'm having to be very vigilant to make sure everything is kept locked up...and thank GOD for Chaos. When he barks, makes me feel good inside. Do I worry? I think whoever it is will stay outside and if they come in, well......judged by 12 works for me. And I will leave it at that. Anyway, I'll go get the rest of the groceries (non-perishables) I left during the storm and put them away.
So - I've got to get busy.....and get some things done because MY work is never done! I am so going to do GREAT things for myself when things get better!
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