A great Friday

How your day goes is really all a matter of perspective eh??? I had had a horrible sleep & had to take numerous pain meds to fight a hell of a headache. Came to work to a job I love & coworkers I love working with and of course my day got infinitely better. Not terribly productive what with doorbells & phone calls but being surrounded by ppl you enjoy working & all committed to a common goal fuels one's day.

I went and gave blood and I love for many reasons. While there, no person (child or adult), no creature, no summons comes for me, no doorbells or phones = bliss. I take my iPod & feel thoroughly content. I am giving the gift of life while having some me time. How divine! Why do I have to wait so many weeks for this to take place again? (that is rhetorical eh)

So tonight is a sleepover at work, and I know I say it a lot but I just LOVE the people I work with. A bunch volunteered & once the kids were asleep we didn't even watch one movie.... We just talked & laughed & enjoyed each other's company until 2 a.m. :)

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Wishing my iPod had a microphone

Laying in bed.... Cannot possibly sleep.... Husband , whom I love, don't get me wrong, is snoring off the richter scale. Arggggggggh!


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Advice

Ok..... Advice for all: cocacola & rainbow chocolate chip cookies for breakfast & lunch is a very bad choice


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Torn

When I am with my kids, I can often be fully present but sometimes, I want to be at work. When I am at work, I can often be fully present but sometimes, I want to be with my kids.


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For Ellen, yes, that Ellen, seriously

So I love the show Ellen. I DVR it every day. :) She never, and I mean never fails to bring several smiles to my face as well as causes me to laugh out loud. I depend on her, I count on her and I am happy to rely on her. This week I realized I had to talk to her... so here is the video I made for her.

Wow! cannot begin to tell you how nervous I was making that video. And now I will wonder... will she ever see it.... I wonder how many messages she gets a day. Great now I will wonder that too.

What is up lately...

We now have all 4 Christmas trees done and the majority of the Christmas boxes up in the storage loft. So very very close to being completely de-Christmassed. LOL

The kitten and puppy (can I call her that since she is not yet 1 yr old?) are doing fairly well together. They wrestle quite energetically. I mean really, with body slams and everything. She is quite tiny compared to our massive (LOL) dog. Hey! our dog is massive compared to kitty!

Feels very very weird to not be looking forward to going to Florida in March. We are not taking any trips this year and it feels so strange. I think I am happy / excited to not have to dig out suitcases. But when my BFF texted me today the dates she will be in Florida, I must say I had some momentary regrets.

Hoping my hubby called Judy today! :)

New Beginnings

how do you feel about the New Year each year? do you find yourself setting tons of goals? I find my mind swims quite a bit there in January each year. I also feel I get a Holiday Hangover. Sort of that icky feeling from having some candy, large meals and burning the candle on both ends.

In the fall, in early October, I had some people come in and help me purge and organize our home. We really made some great changes and a lot of stuff left our house. (you would not know it to visit LOL) and now with Christmas over, we have stuff again... Not the same amount but some of the gifts we got sort of replaced some stuff that we had purged. I purged a Santa cookie jar and lo and behold we got one. I purged a chocolate fondue set and lo and behold.... I gave me such a feeling of release and lightness to have less stuff to take care of and organize and it is amazing how heavy you can feel having to now find a place for it all over again.

at work, we started a healthy lifestyle / weight loss challenge. I signed up for it. I have not begun to participate as of yet. I cannot say quite why. I am in sort of a funk I guess. I need to give myself a talking to ??? or maybe kick myself in the butt?

I always loved blogging so I hope to get back into that too.

Several people have told me you cannot wish people a Happy New Year after a certain date. But I defy them and say Happy 2010 to all of you!

Slow Motion - NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

I love to blog... I really do.... I never seem to get to it as much as I want to... but I do love to blog.... and I also LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE comments... but that doesn't work out the way I want either... oh well...

on to the post I had to write regardless of exhaustion

My hubby is off right now. Vacay. Lucky man. Well he does work hard... so I am ok with it... the fact that he is off and I am not. Really, I am ok with it... That is my story and I am sticking to it.

Anyhoo....

First week of his vacay... and he is doing tasks around home. I am delighted, tickled pink actually.

He hauled out the carpet scrubber. Dashed off to the store and bought the cleaning fluid said machine requires and scrubbed the heck out of our creamish berber carpet we stupidly put in our family room when we should have done laminate or hard wood because two little girls and one hell of a clutzy mother spill tons of stuff. Sorry, I digress.

So it is seriously hot out, he scrubs and scrubs and scrubs. Does stair landings as well.

So me and the kids come home... carpet looks great! You can hardly see the 7 milion stains that were in it! Amazing! He instantly tells us to go around the corner with our shoes. And then we cook the beans and weiners we are having for supper.

We are one of those families (I KNOW THERE ARE HARDLY ANY OF THESE ON THE PLANET...) that sometimes... SOMETIMES NOT ALWAYS (although perhaps 99.8% of the time) eat in front of the t.v.

Yes I know that is terrible. I hate it for all kinds of reasons.... we are not connecting as a family... we are missing amazing bonding time... wonderful rich conversations etc. And I have guilt. Moving on...

So there we are beans and weiners and trays and a tv that is on.

Hubby heads downstairs to the basement for some reason.

Eldest daughter gets up... and somehow... (she is not clutzy like her mom and sister) her bowl goes flying through the air... SERIOUSLY... flying... does a friggin' swear on my life loop de frickin' loop!!!! and heads upside down towards the carpet...

NO word of a LIE... time slowed down... the whole thing seemed to be slow motion... HONEST TO GOD... I screamed "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" and it came out loud and slow like it was being played slow on a loud speaker... and SPLAT!

HOLY SHIT!

you should have seen her eyes! I have never seen eyes bug out that far! My chin was on the floor! We stared at each other for a moment. A long moment which involved time freezing.

My youngest daughter was looking on at us GOGGLE EYED.

Then time unfroze... I screamed again... "Move!" and in tandem we began... she RAN... grabbed paper towel... I shouted in staccato what the carpet stain remover spray looked like... get it ... under the sink.... I grabbed a dry dishcloth from the drawer... wet it, squeezed... she came flying back from upstairs where the stain remover was at the ready for potential cat puke (ANOTHER STORY I WILL NOT POST AS WHO WOULD WANT TO READ THAT)

frantic scrubbing ensued....

little one ran downstairs... "it is okay guys... I will tell Daddy it was an accident."

Time froze again.

Eldest and I simultaneously said "NOOOOOOOOOO" in long, loud slow motion....

She came back. "I did not tell him" Stared at us again GOGGLE EYED.

I go to sink and rinse cloths and towels...

He arrives from the basement....

Sees me at sink.... I try to look non-chalant... but my eyes are bugging out of my head.

He says... "Tell me someone did NOT spill something."

And the rest is up to your imaginations.... .... ..... ... ....

I do wish it had been videod though... cuz I really do believe it was in slow motion.

Brace yourself for a shock.... !!!!

r u ready? seriously... I hope you r sitting down... !

I am NO domestic diva!!!!

I know your mind is reeling at this revelation...

You all probably thought I was Martha Stewart-like...

BAAAAAAhahahahahhahaha!!!

ok, so those of you who know me... know I am NOT remotely "domesticky"!

So my mind is sorta spinning cuz yesterday... I tidied, I cleaned including scrubbing a bathroom and sweeping, LOL... went to an appointment, went to work, registered one of my kid for summer camps, got gas and did other errands on way home including purchased flour, shortening, and cooking oil, came home, ate, organized and then made two batches of cupcakes and a cake... FROM SCRATCH!!! and then found some quality time with hubby as well!!!

what the heck was up with all that????

have I turned over a new leaf?

BAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!

Lately... & a difficult day ahead...

lately...

the girls played for hours downstairs with babies and toy dishes and then hosted a supper for G & I down there... they were very involved with the props and toys and it was so enjoyable to see them immersed in cooperative play... :) (and supper was good too!)

today they decided to use some sidewalk chalk... they chalked the stair railing out front, the step stone at the bottom of the stairs and all over the driveway as well... they had a super time with it...

It is 1:43 a.m. Today is my husband's late sister's birthday. She would have been 51 today. We lost her in February. Today we are burying her ashes. It will be a difficult day.

My littlest said "It is sad that the birthday girl will not be here" and I agreed. She then asked if we could give her a piece of cake. I said we would have to see how everyone feels... and she then asked if she could sing Happy Birthday too...

Isn't it amazing how kids can be... .... ... I don't know what to say here... I want to say intuitive... warm... caring... comfortable????? but perhaps when you read this you won't think so????

I should get to bed.... I have to make cupcakes in the morning so we can take one with us.

Miss you Cheryl.