I swear, I’m still alive

I know that I have checked blogs, I haven’t said boo, f…u.. or hello, HOWEVER, I got really busy last weekend and ended it by getting completely SICK (As a dog, the term the doctor used).

My life in Bullet/Dash Points lately

~ Friday – did not work (swapped out Thurs for Fri.) finished some things up for my “surprise” bullet point (coming to it, keep your pants on) and cleaned the carpet and vacuumed @ home.

~ Friday pm – went to school. Did about 3 or 4 more hair do’s on my manny. Actually managed to get my house clean an hour early so got 5 hours in that night at school (instead of 4) – 1491 to go.

~ Sat am – Regan and I got coffee (well, she got a cookie, I got the coffee), took her to MIL’s and went to school. Ended up doing 2 official updo’s for homecoming clients. Was at school until 4pm instead of 3pm (7 more hours, 1484 hrs to go).

~ Sat pm – Picked up Regan, David got off work early. Told him to go take a power nap, Regan and I hung out for a little while. David got up, took Regan to MIL’s for the night. My aunt arrived, we all (David, aunt and myself) went out for sushi. Got back watched a little video – went to SLEEP – (thankfully).

(This is the SURPRISE part coming)

~ Sun am – David was picked up by his friend for a 9 hole round of golf. Aunt and I went to pick up Regan from MIL’s. Took Regan to another friend (sound like a HORRIBLE mother, don’t I – [believe me, there is a GOOD reason]). Came back to the area, picked up MIL and some food (that she made), got home. We got all the food ready that we could. Decorated. Set up the tables outside. And waited……. for David to get home.

We had a SURPRISE party for him for his accomplishments this past year. He was surprised and he was very thankful. Everyone had a good time and it was just adults and we hung out and ate burgers, dogs and bbq. Had soda, and water. Had a special cake made and plus my neighbors had some pies that we ate too!

~ Sun pm – EXHAUSTED was the only word I could use. David and I picked up Regan. Didn’t even bother with a bath, she didn’t have a nap so she was OUT at 7:45pm. I was out by 8:45pm. Middle of the night, I was SWEATING!!

~ Mon am – SICK!!! Sweats, chills. Got Regan off to school, met with David and the ?? (I have no idea what their job title name is), the guy to do the closing on our refi., went back home, called the doc’s office, slept for an hour. David took me to the doc appt., they took strep cultures, had 102. temp, doc said I was sick as a dog – go home and rest and drink plenty. He also said it was too early in the season for flu – hhhmmmpphhhh – WTF??!

~ Mon pm – fever broke sometime in the afternoon, throat was KILLING me, felt very weak. Did not go to work.

~ Tues – didn’t make it too work that day either.

~ Wed. – Plant shutdown day. Laid around a bit after dropping Regan at school. Got a shower and all that – went to school. Took my test (well quiz…..we will get into that later), went back home. Lazed around some more, took a REALLY good afternoon (1 hour) nap. Picked up Regan and didn’t go back to school last night.

~ Thurs. – FINALLY made it into work. Throat is still a little off but doing better. Feel okay so far and just trying to take it easy as I will have Regan tonight and be putting her to sleep as well. Maybe I can get to sleep early too though. Here’s to hoping.

So there is my week in bullet points so far. I hope that I have caught you all up at this point. Can you catch me up on your lives that quickly?? (It does feel like it was a monster post though – sorry about that!)

Conversation

Regan is aware that Daddy and I are on a “diet” and it is killing her that we won’t go out to eat.  So this was her take on it last night.

R: When you are off your diet, we can go out every night to different places.
A: (chuckling) What, do you think I’m made of money?
R: Yes.
R: (some time for some thinking) We can go out every naptime and nighttime.
A: Sorry, that isn’t going to happen!

Basically she wanted a special dinner last night.  On Monday due to being the 1st day of Pre-school we did stop by McDonald’s to pick HER up food to take home.  I asked her what she thought a special dinner would be last night.

Her reply:  “WAFFLES”!!!!

A kid after my own heart!  We obviously haven’t done Waffles in a while due to the diet.  I guess one of these days I will have to invite Grandma over or something to eat Waffles with Regan so that I don’t waste all the batter. (Plus, my waffles are special, they are chocolate chip ones   )

Day 22 – Thankful for…..

1) Having a home to protect me and my daughter from the elements.  2)  Having very sore muscles from having the ability to clean my home.  3)  Having family to share the day and season with.  4)  Having friends who know who you are and respecting you even if they have a different view on something.  5)  Having love in my heart no matter what happens and being able to accept life for what it is and what I have made of it.

 Obviously this list could go on and on (and really probably should).  I don’t know that I think about some of this stuff often enough.  However today while cooking (which is NOT a forte of mine), I realized that I am thankful that I have a brain to be able to get through cooking a relatively big meal for my family.  I’m also thankful that my husband was willing enough to help me and be patient with me when the hens weren’t quite ready when I thought they were.  But he enjoyed the meal and he knows that it was a big deal for me and I think that he is thankful that I did try!

Oh and the Maple Pumpkin Cheesecake, I highly recommend it for anytime of year but it sure works if you don’t have a pumpkin pie and you are having a craving for pumpkin!  My MIL loved hers (last night!) and David and I just about split a pie ourselves!  Yum.