first cucumber + misc

First off, yesterday I was checking the status of my plants when I returned home from work and found that a cucumber has grown! I almost never check my cucumber plant because I just figured that nothing would be growing, but it had been!


My garden is looking pitiful today. I just watered it but I try to water it once in the morning too but I was sitting on the commode fighting off a stomach bug this morning and instead of going outside and watering them, I went back to sleep until well into the afternoon




Our neighbors have a garden and it's really pretty. Huge leaves, but I can't tell what they've put in it. That I'm increasingly jealous of. If Lulu hadn't ran through their winter garden and maybe have messed things up, I would go over there & see what they have and what they do with them after they harvest.

I work until midnight tonight and I'm 50/50 on it. It's an 8 hour shift altogether. 8 hour shifts are all I've worked this weekend. For lunch on Friday, some co-workers and I piled into a car and went off campus for lunch! It was a lot of fun.
I need to bring my fern back to life. It's completely brown thanks to me forgetting to water it, and I want it's green back.

a series of events

Sunday I had a 6Am shift and since pretty much nobody comes in between 6Am and 8Am, I decided to whip out my yarn and crochet hook and finish up a hat I'd been working on.


This is going to be a long week, I think. We have kind of a lot to do but we're keeping it low key. Josh dropped me off at home after I got off of work and he's been back at the office since. I have some soup in the crock pot, dishes are done, macadamia nut & white chocolate chip cookies are baked, kitchen is clean and I've put some veggie and soup cans in a big bowl of hot water to soak the paper off so I can do something with them.
I really hope the soup is good. It's kind of a garbage soup I guess.
It's 2 cans of:

rinsed and drained, half a can of chicken broth, half a can of corn and 2 spoon fulls of flour to make it a bit thicker.
Cross yr fingers!

Here's a bonus picture of Lulu and her new toy, Mr Quackers JR.


I'm slowly but surely getting together everything that I need for the zine. I know it's been a super duper slow process and I have a million apologies for that but it's winter time and I'm always tired.

I keep getting sinus headaches while at work but I think some of it is from stress of other co-workers which really sucks, but I think that stress is a factor at ANY job you'll have.
That's okay.
After I got off of work, I went to the library to pick up some crocheting books. They had more knitting books than crocheting so I may try a neighboring city's library next time.


When I got out of the library I had a voic email! I guess I didn't get service in the library but it was my boss at work telling me to call him about a customer's order. I didn't know what that meant because I had a pretty easy going day, no real problems or anything. Apparently one of the people that came through my line at work said that she only had 1 "Pick 5"(you can pick 5 meats for 19.99$, a pretty good deal if you eat a lot of meat)but she had been charged for 4. I told my boss that no, she had 4 and the gentleman she was with said that he had 4. I had told the gentleman that he in fact had 3, with 4 separate meats but if he went and got another 1 that he would have a full 4 pick 5. I explained that it was a woman who was in a wheelchair and that I confirmed that the last 2 items that I rung up from them was a 3lb bag of yellow onions and a bag of red potatoes.
But a woman came in that wasn't with them. I told him that it was only the woman in the wheelchair and the gentleman, not any other person was with them. They paid with food stamps and the food stamps total came to 288.something$.
She was trying to get her money back for food that she says she didn't purchase but got charged with, but she DID purchase them! It made me very disturbed that someone would do that.
Any way, on to more positive things!
when I got home, I had mail!


A new zine to read from School For Maps.


I wore my teddy bear hair clip to work today. I used some puffy paint to make a bow on it the other night but it kind of looks like the teddy bear's head is split in half and stuff is oozing out.
AND FINALLY

day 3 of Growing Gingerbread! Josh says he isn't growing but I think he is!

Phewf!

I got my Bad Idea Sleepover stuff in the mail today. I'm pretty stoked on the pins

check her Etsy out: http://www.etsy.com/people/badideasleepover
and then she sent 2 more as freebies as well as a zine that was a real fun read.
I got this one:

I worked the entire holiday week and I thought I was really going to keel over. I got 2 extra hours for the week though so that was pretty cool I suppose! :)
Yesterday I worked 6-2 and it can be summed up as such:


I came home after work, made dinner:


and then took a nap.
Josh ran up to the office while Lulu and I were napping because he had some things to get to go out of town this evening with the football team for the championship game or something.
Last night, I did this

Today I went shopping and bought some more tinsel,lights and some other little knick knack Christmasy things. I also got some corduroy pants that I'm pretty fond of

and made grilled cheese and leftover ham sandwiches for us for lunch



I'm real happy that I'm getting back into zines. I'm sporting some red polka dot pajamas and Josh's Rev. Pat Robertson feminist quote t-shirt this evening. I scored the Sopranos season 1 for 12$ today as well as The Iron Giant for 1.96$. Josh and I watched 2 episodes of the Sopranos before I dropped him off so maybe I'll watch The Iron Giant and eat my bowl of macaroni and cheese!