I was very excited to not have hat hair this morning - it was the first time that I wore my hard hat and I had it on for one full hour.
Although I have short hair it is extremely fine and really does not hold its style if something is put on it. I have been going to the same hairdresser now for about a year and she finally has gotten the cut just right so that whether I blow dry it and style it or I just blow dry it - it is fine.
I generally only style it when I go to work - when I am home I just blow dry it and put some wax on it to put it in an acceptable style. I have never loved my hair; but, I have finally made peace with it.
After three years at the Health System I am finally going to to a construction site and for that I need safety equipment.
There was no extra safety equipment in any of our facility organizations which meant that we needed to buy our own equipment. Monday found me at my local Home Depot picking up six safety glasses, six safety vests and six hardhats. Of course now they do not have a shopping bag large enough to put all of this - so only the glasses and the vests go in the bag. The hats went in my trunk until I could get one of my recyclable bags to put them in.
We are all set and today Chris and I will inaugurate our equipment, I will give the other members of my team their equipment so that they can have it in their car for when they are on a job site. Never thought I would be dressed like this; but, I guess there is a first time for everything.
Callum spent Saturday night and I thought "great" he loves to run errands with me - so I had a full list for us to do on Sunday.
Well, can I tell you that NOTHING got done on Sunday. Not because either of us was sick, it was just that Callum decided that he didn't want to go out. I couldn't even entice him with a trip to the bookstore. I don't know why - upon getting up he immediately wanted to get dressed albeit it was just putting on regular pants, not his shirt or socks.
He spent the whole time until his father came to pick him up watching his DVDs on the personal player, making a tower with his blocks, playing on the iPad and watching Nick Jr. on my personal computer. He ate his cereal, drank his milk and was his congenial self; he just didn't want to go out.
So I now have to go to the bank, cleaners, Office Max and Home Depot. I know I will get everything done very quickly without him today; but, I would have enjoyed doing it with him.
For years now we have been celebrating Cinco de Mayo - none of us are Mexican; but we enjoy the food and a reason to get together.
I started my cooking on Friday evening as I made the beginnings of a Tres Leches cake, then yesterday early afternoon I made my cheese danish - I made two platters because the second one was going to become sopapillas. Per the Pillsbury instructions all I had to do was refrigerate the danish, cut it into squares and drizzle some honey over it.
I then prepped by cutting up my onions for the nachos and the Mexican lasagna, the tomatoes and red onion for the guacamole. The cooking begins at 4PM when I know that Gerard would be on the road.
The highlight of the evening would be that Callum would spend the night - today he and I will go to Barnes & Noble and to Home Depot to pick up hardhats, vest and safety glasses for work. It will be another experience for him.
I finally feel comfortable that since it is the first few days of May that I can start to put my winter clothes away.
I began this project on Thursday evening by moving my winter blouses, suits and dresses from my bedroom closet to the spare bedroom closet. Tonight I will go through the pants and then tackle the draws that house sweaters and long sleeve shirts.
I will also be changing out my shoes - it is time to let my "Barney Rubble" feet out in the open and enjoy the sunlight.
This has been the longest in several years that it has taken the weather to change and for us to feel comfortable putting wool away. I am afraid that we may go from 60 to 80 overnight and there is no going back.
Yesterday it was cold, bleak, raw and raining - up to 5 1/2 inches in some parts of New Jersey AND today it is sunny and warm!!
I opened my door and have the sun shining through my all glass storm door - it brightens the house and the sun is both in the front and the back of the house. It is great to not have to put the lights on in the house or have a space heater in the room where I do work.
Tomorrow and this weekend I will remove the covers from my patio furniture and set that up and then next weekend I will purchase the plants to decorate the patio with.
I felt that this day would never come and there is now such a light airiness to my house and there is a smile on my face and a spring in my step!
Just last week we were hearing that New Jersey was having drought related fires that were being spurned by the wind.
Well given the amount of rain we had yesterday I doubt that we should have any drought situations this summer. There are areas that received more than 4 inches of rain throughout the day and evening.
I was in the city and there were several times that I had to walk up a street for a half a block because I could cross the street without having a puddle up to my ankles. There was one corner that had a huge puddle and a taxi went through it at about 40mph - you should have seen how that water splattered in an arc.
Can I tell you that I was actually quite lucky in that the rain was manageable in the morning as I drove to the train station and then walked the 12 blocks to the office. I ran out at 1:45 to pick up something to eat and then when I left in the afternoon I was able to catch a cab after walking one block to the train station.
Once home it was not so bad to put everything in the back seat, grab it once I got home and to get my mail. Hopefully as they have promised it will be over today.
