Mattocks Family News

Hello everyone!

It is a great day, I am doing not a thing. Just kidding.

Just missing Travis and wishing for company, trying to stay upbeat and if I say I am having a great day then I will just have to make it a great day so that I am not lying, and I know, I know, I could be with the family but they are shopping and I do not like shopping, specially when I have no money to just buy what I want.

So Coda and I got up this morning all prepared to go to moms. Got ready and decided to just wait to eat till we got over there. So I got me a tall glass of iced tea and my macaroni salad and we headed over there. Got there and found out no one was home, so called mom and they are at Ihop. "Oh come on over, we just got here" So I said ok and we went over there. Watched them eat and then "want to go to Savers with us?" Well if you know me I am just not into going to Savers and sifting through clothes for 2 hours so I declined. But Coda said he wanted to go, I'm sure in hopes that he would get a toy or something. haha So I headed home, stopped at the library to drop some books off and came home and straightened the house, vacuumed, and put a load of laundry in and now here I am.

My house is getting a little warm, already up to 74 in here, usually it stays cooler than that and I only run the A/C at night to bring it down to 70 but its been pretty warm out and even with keeping all the shades closed it gets warm in here. But during the day I eat so much ice I usually don't notice if it gets above 70 so I am still saving money for my husband, since he works so hard to make it for me.

Travis is working today in fact, I looked up the weather over there and it looks like a nice warm day so he is probably getting a nice sun tan at least.

He had a root canal done last night though so hopefully he is doing ok, I haven't talked to him today though so I don't know.

He is always terribly busy at work and running hither and thither and so we don't get much chatting time until the evening. Although he does call and say "hey, love you babe" if he is walking from the office to the job or sometimes just a text. But he and I agree that it is better for just that little second,(he is so sweet, and just gets sweeter as the days go by) so I know he is thinking about me even in the midst of his very busy day and with all the stress of dealing with incompetent, ignorant, slow, lazy guys that he has to be in charge of.

It seems a bit wrong that the union will put guys out to work and they not know a thing, just let them buy a book and not go through the apprenticeship and then send them out on a big job and they can't read prints or do what they are told because they don't know how, and half of them have no common sense to even figure it out. And after all the hard work that Travis and some of the others that go through the apprenticeship put into learning everything and working and going to school at the same time for 5 years and then they are looked at as the same as these guys that know nothing because they took the easy street and were allowed to. What is this world coming to?!

Now don't take me wrong, I don't know anything about that either except that I have been raised in this Union thing, My dad, my dad's dad, my husband and his dad and many other family members on both sides and so I listen and Travis shares his days and his jobs with me and sometimes learn different things. I have even learned to admire a pipe. HAHA

Haven't heard from Dallas or anyone yet but I am sure they will be pulling into town sometime within the next few hours, so I need to make sure all the laundry is done because he is going to have a weeks worth for me to get done when he gets here.