The pool

It has been great having the pool for the children (and me!) to play in, but it requires different chemicals to stay clean.'

When we bought the pool we also got a chemical kit for the upkeep.

I forgot to pick up a dispenser for the chlorine and have been searching and searching and searching for one ever since.

Today we went to four different stores and no one had anything in stock.

I'm going to go search on eBay for one, enough is enough.

Never shop on a Tuesday

Every two weeks, the Saturday after Payday, we do our grocery shopping. With the exception of necessities, like milk and gas, we do not purchase things other than on grocery day.

Because of the planned camping trip, we had to postpone our shopping until today. Tuesday.

Never, EVER shop on a Tuesday.

Apparently stores get stock in on Wednesdays, so we were unable to get a lot of what was on our list.

And that sucks. I wont go in twice for it, now it will have to wait for a week and a half, until the next scheduled trip.

well.here I am

Do I get a gold star? Or at the very least a cookie?

Our super fun exciting waited all year long for it vacation was a bust.

I can;t get into it as of yet, but there will be ranting and raving to come, let me tell ya!

I'm so upset. For me, as well as for the kidlets.

We told them and worked them up and built this camping trip up so hugely for them, and then BAM! it was done and gone.

Tics me the hell off!

I guess I have to unpack the suitcases and try to make some headway in the mess on my kitchen table, but we are home.

Sigh.

WOOHOO

We are just about to head out the door for our vacation!

The clothes and food are packed

And the kids

(LOL)

I'm so excited I could pee!

hey cool

So about two weeks ago I got my new ipod int eh mail, which by the way, i LOVE. the only problem is that my husband also loves it, but we listen to entirely different types of music.

It was beginning to be a huge hassle for me to plug it in and find his music and have to take it all off and put mine back on.

So.

I just bought a new iPod from eBay. YAY

Plus I got it for just a cheap as the last one!

AND it's blue, which is the color I originally wanted!

I rock!

Pool Problems

So we set up the pool and started swimming. well not quite we had to add algaecide or something, and something called platinum shock and wait and hour and then chlorine tablets in a floater thingamajig. then we started swimming,

The pool has a filter thingy that we are only supposed to use eight hours at a time and only when no one is in the pool.

So what I am wondering is, do we test the water daily with those little test strip thingys and adjust the chemicals accordingly, or do we just do like the box and test every week and and add the chemicals then?

I'm not sure if the water is cloudy becuase of the grass and such the boys drag in - I spent an hour this morning scooping out grass with a bug net. Its actually very relaxing.. or if the water is cloudy becuase we need to do other chemical thingys.

And what exactly is the filter for? Why cant we have it going at all times? If the filter is supposed to take out the grass and crap, then i need something or someone in it to be moving the water around because it all seems to sit at the bottom of the pool.

However, the top 12 inches looks awesome!

I'm very very new to the pool thingy, we never had more than paddling pools as kids, and this is the first pool we have ever owned as a family now that is big enough to merit chemicals and filter stuff.

Help a girl out, I know a lot of you peeps have pools!

I have a plan

In regards to our camping snafu, we have decided to just go and stay in the over flow part of the campground. Sure it doesnt have electricity which means OMG no coffee. And that concerns me a little bit, but we are only staying two nights.

Friday, by the time we get there, we will have time to set up camp and make supper and then it will be dark, so no need for shade there, eh?

Im sooooo looking forward to burnt marshmallows!

Saturday we will be at the pool all day, and we will have shade there (there are no trees in overflow camping, you just get a spot of grass and dirt.) The pool area has lots of trees for shade, so we are good for then. And of course we will have even more marshmallows on Saturday night, cus OMG marshmallows are my first true love!

Sunday we have to check out by noon, but we will stick around for a round or two of mini golf and head home.

Since we won't be there long, only one full day, we don;t really have to have the bestest campsite, do we?

Aside from the whole I WON'T GET COFFEE FOR TWO AND A HALF DAYS! part, it should be fun!

i just phoned the campground.

all sites are full

now what?

Employee relations

I just heard that tomorrow we will have temperatures exceeding 120.

exceeding.

I'm not worried about me, because I will just run over to my in laws and drink coffee there all day in the nice air conditioned house.

I will be worrying over my husband as he is a welder. His work is always hot without adding the hugely horrid temperatures he will face tomorrow.

I feel bad for him, but tis not like he can just not go, you know? A job is a job.

When does it get too hot? When should employers start to think about their workers? For the majority of his plant, the workers will be hot, but for those poor poor welders, tomorrow will be pure hell.

I think its time that employers take into account the tpe of work being done, as well as the temperatures. At the very least they should be allowed more time to go get a drink of water to re hydrate themselves.

I'm going to be pretty mad if my husband comes home with heat stroke and cannot work the next day!

still too hot

So we have been working on the pool for almost two hours now. We were filling it up and left it to do its thing while we had supper. now my back yard is under a few inches of water and the pool is still not full!


ACK!

i guess it will all be worth it tomorrow when we can go in, but right now Im reconsidering the cash i laid out for it and the chemicals and the toys

Sigh