This Life Of Mine

Last night sunset was gorgeous while there was a helicopter flying really low I imagine he was spraying the fields?

This morning, coffee in hand, up at 5:00 but been awake since 3am. Why you ask? Well, Ms. Joplyn woke up and decided to have a tantrum at that time. You see, she likes to have her way and doesn’t like to be told no. So after all the screaming, I couldn’t go back to sleep. Listen, I raised my kids and I’m sure I made lots of mistakes, but this bargain back and forth and gentle parenting doesn’t work with some children. Anyway, I try not to say much but will stand my ground when dealing with her myself, I will not be disrespected by a 4 years old child.

Weslee had 2 interviews today. Both went really well.

Michael is closing today so he’ll work until 7pm.

I’m exhausted. I don’t know which one is more exhausting, being at work or being at home all day with Joplyn. Today was an ok day. We had some discussions and some good times. There’s always an argument about everything. Not an easy child to please.

We did have some fun blowing bubbles.

Today wasn’t as hot as the last couple of days, the sun looked so very red and on my way to work I saw a fox crossing the street, such a skinny little thing.

The girl went to Peoria to explore, and even though she’s a girly girl, she liked farm equipment, who knew.

Work wasn’t too busy. I just get tired of the people complaining about everything and everyone. I’m not saying that they may be wrong but they make it worse for everyone. One of my coworkers has an interview coming up at the health department, if she gets that job, that’s more hours not been covered.

It’s super hot and humid and the cicadas are really loud. Corn sweat is real. I heard about it in Iowa but since we used to live in the middle of town and no corn very close, it never got too humid. I mean, maybe for the locals did, but coming from Arkansas, it wasn’t bad. But here we’re surrounded by corn north, south, east and west, there’s no escape. It’s ok.

Work was fine, steady mostly. Had a team meeting online with the other 2 hospitals. My 6 months can’t come soon enough. Cheyanne got interviewed for the clinic job, she has a good chance of getting it. I hope she does. Although that will be bad for me, that would leave me by myself on my second shift. David and I are at the cafeteria. The food was ok, not great and not too bad but 10.00 for both plates, you can’t beat that.

When I came home Weslee told me that Joplyn didn’t take a nap cause the air conditioner has been leaking and the guys who were going to work on it showed up right at the beginning of her nap. So she and Weslee went to bed about an hour ago.

I’m exhausted!

Off today. Didn’t do absolutely anything. I worked the last two days. Tomorrow and Tuesday are my early days, have to be there at 6:30 am.

I really wanted to go to the pool today because it’s really hot but it was kind of overcast. There were many things I planned on doing, instead did nothing and took a nap. David grilled. Dealing with the little tornado is exhausting.

It’s been a very long couple of days off. Joplyn has been acting up I’m sure because of the move. Two nights ago was really bad. Lots of kicking, hitting and taking back. Yesterday there was some of that but it wasn’t as bad. Today she has been better. I don’t think all the “gentle talking” is working very well but get whet what do I know. She likes to argue and she will not back down. I keep telling her that I’m not arguing, in telling her what to do or not to do. When she keeps telling me why (and I know she’s messing with me) I tell her because I say so. I really don’t know how to deal with a child talker that. My kids never behaved like that and when I was little, my mom would have thrown a chancleta at me 😂 actually we didn’t get spanked much and we behaved very well, we had respect for our elders.

Today I met David for lunch, we went to a Vietnamese restaurant that opened about a month ago, it’s pricey but it’s really good. Then I went to Walmart. I swear I’ll go somewhere else for the next months. They’ve been remodeling it for the last 3 or 4 months and keep moving things around. Whoever designed what they’re doing needs to be fired. What a mess. Some isles are way too skinny, 2 people with 2 carts can’t fit together. Some isles are too wide for no reason. On top of it they keep moving items so every time I go they’re in a different place 🙄

Yesterday I took Joplyn to see the cows and the cows are gone! Don’t know where they are. She did have a good time picking up some fox tails from the side of the road and saw how tall the corn is. Today when coming back from Walmart I drove to see if the cows are back but they’re still gone 🙁

And here I was relaxing after a long week at work. Talking about work, we have a cafeteria. They serve breakfast and lunch and have ready to go food and snacks that people can get as a grab and go. I may buy lunch on Tuesdays, is really cheap. Today they had general tso’s chicken that was really good. I didn’t get the rice but got the broccoli and egg roll. All for 5.50. Can’t beat that. And it was really good.

Lastly Joplyn has been a lot, but that’s to be expected. She’s on time out right now because she was mean to her mom and has to stay in her room until the dad arrives.