Category: Pay attention to me…me me me…

Today is the official first day of the National Blog Posting Month. You know, the month in which I post cheesy little posts about fluff and stuff? Yeah…I might even come up with some well thought out non-rambling type posts! Stay tuned….

So my sister thinks I looked pretty good in my pink and black wig on Halloween. She said I am the only person she knows who actually looks good with pink and black hair. Dare I say I agree with her? It was the one day strangely enough that I DID feel pretty.I thnk it was because I put on make-up and didn’t just slap on a baseball cap. I don’t know what it is about wigs, even cheap wigs from Target. They make you feel like someone else for just a little while and some days that is a good thing! Here is another picture of my whole 80’s rock chic outfit.

It was really fun to dress up and go to our church’s Annual FallFest and paint the kids hands and faces. I use paint pens and make cute butterflies and heart with star for the girls and footballs and basketballs for the boys. Only problem is, my head is down like for 2 hours straight and I don’t get to see my kids walking around and playing all the games. Jon gets to do that. His feet felt like they were going to fall off at the end of the night. Poor guy. He went as Hugo “Hurley” Reyes from LOST. Either people got it or they didn’t. It was funny. He even made Dharma food with the white logo lables and everything. I’ll ask him to post a pic of himself later. The concept of Hurley was there, but the wig we found last minute was more Capt. Hook/Slash from GunsNRoses than Hurley. But that’s ok, he looked great!

Today is MJ’s first day back to preschool offcially. Well, at least for the month of Nov. I paid for 1 day a week because that is all we could afford right now. It gets me out of the house and gives me a reason to avoid laundry for at least one day. Heck, I avoid it without having to pay for MJ to go to school! I’m getting together with my friend and we are going to go look at model homes so I can dream about what I want my house to look like someday. *sigh* Someday…..

Tootles! Have a great day!

Happy Halloween!

Love Shack Baby!

There lived a busy woman who had lice to kill, rashes to heal, and Christmas trees to decorate. She had a banner to paint, a house to clean, and music to learn. She also had a cell phone to fix, phone calls to make, and school conferences to attend. Obviously she can’t do them all at once, or be in all those places at the same time, so she called in for help. Until further notice, or Nov. 1st where she will post everyday for a month she can be found in the corner sucking her thumb and rocking back and forth.

The End.

Today is the perfect day to snuggle in your favorite jammies, watch a sappy movie on TV, or take a nap. Jammies: check. Snuggled: check. Watching sappy movie on TV: umm…no. Instead? SpongeBob. Feeling sleepy: check.
I think a nap is in order. See ya.

*edited*
I tried to take a nap. Then the phone rang, I played phone tag with several people and my daughter called to tell me that she forgot her lunch money and now didn’t have anything to eat. Oy. I had to get dressed, and go down there. Oh and also had to tell the Nurse that we found a live louse on our daughters head. Got it from her best friend who got it from another friend. That is one thing you and your best friend do NOT want to share. (shiver)
Now I am watching Jay Jay the Jet Plane. I do believe I am in hell.

Just like on Decorating Cents I changed some things around for no money. I used what I had laying around and re-created my blawg. I like it. I love to change around the furniture in the house like every 6 months so why not here? Although I only started this in Aug., I didn’t like some of the features of the first template I tweeked. I will make sure to bring back the sass tho, I really liked that and it was so me…:D

So….how have you been? Me? Well, I have been psuedo busy. I had a burst of synthetic energy (except I took the ULTRA kind) on Sunday. If you are like me and most women in america, you tend to bloat before that time of the month. No? Count your blessings then, cuz it stinks! I took some water pills to help me shed some unwanted poundage and although I knew it had caffeine in it, I didn’t think it would keep me awake as much as it did. I only took the equivalent of 4 cups of coffee in less than 4 hours, no big. Sort of. I didn’t fall asleep until 5:30 am, and that was after I read all my blogs, baked some blueberry muffins, caught up on like 10 shows on the DVR, and  make a breakfast casserole for Sunday School. Then I got up at 8:30 to get said cassarole in the oven to bake, showered and dressed and out the door by 9:30am. Let’s put it this way…I lost 6 lbs. of water in 8 hours. Yes, even that was worth staying up for!

When we came home from church, I ate some lunch, and then got a wild hair about buying more spoons and a rake from Big Lots. I came home with and 85 peice set of utensils and a rake and 2 table clothes and some foam weather stripping for the front door. Only a 1.99! I replaced the stripping, swept the front porch, cleaned the door both inside and out (muddy dog paw marks), raked the yard and then came in and plopped on the couch. I thought I was done for. Finally tired and ready to rest. Nope. I got up and went to the church to redecorate the bulletin board and table for Fall. By the time I was done, it was dinner time and Home Fellowship night out. We met up at a burger place and had dinner and chatted. I was so tired and my back was hurting by then. I had been going for 12 hours straight with only 3 hours of sleep. Needless to say, I went to bed early (11pm is VERY early for me) and slept like a hibernating bear until 7:15am.  I slept fairly well considering I keep tearing off my sleep mask every night and have no memory of undoing the straps, hanging it up on the bed post, and turning it off.

Wow, it’s late again and Jon is already in bed. I think I am finally tired enough to go there myself. See ya sooner-ish!

Watch This

I wrote about my Christmas miracle, tho not at Chirstmas, about how I got great sleep for two nights in a row! But the computer ate it. I even woke up early and got the boy off to preschool and ran a bunch of errands today. I also wrote about the cute shoes I found today. I love shoes. Even when your butt is big and you feel like a balloon, shoes have a way of making you happy. At least for me they do!

So, oh well on my lost post…now I am off to get the kids costumes ready for the Fall Extravaganza tonight at shcool and my stuff together to make cards tonight!

See ya!

Jon wrote about his first night of good sleep wtih his biPaP machine way back when here. Last night was my first night with my CPaP machine. I won’t say it was the best night of sleep I have had, but I am more alert now that I am awake than I would have been before. Yet I am still tired. I think I have a bit of catching up to do. Usually in the morning I wake right up, but this morning, I was groggy and in a deep sleep when the door knocked. It was Natalie, bless her heart, she stopped by to get me up and moving and out for the day. I was still so sleepy I don’t even know what I said to her.

Fast forward to today, Thursday…..I wrote that yesterday around 3 pm..haha…took me a while to wake up. This morning different story. I pulled my mask off sometime early this morning..maybe 6:30 or so? I heard noises of Lauren getting dressed, and cars outside, but was still half asleep. Then I look over at the clock and it’s 7:15 and the kids need to be up and dressed already and Jon is still asleep. I guess we shouldn’t have gone to bed at 1am huh? Anyway, I was wide awake. WIDE awake. Not groggy, not still sleepy…it was cool…yet not, because its colder outside this morning (fall has finally arrived and this being Texas and all, it will get warmer tomorrow for sure!) I didn’t want to get up, I wanted to snuggle. Oh well. It’s picture day for the younger ones, so off to find something to wear and brush hair and teeth, and get breakfast before heading out the door in 15 min! Good thing I was up.

I am a little yawn-y right now…I think because the thought of being awake at 7:55 in the morning really isn’t that appealing to me…ever. So, now that I have proclaimed the power of the C-PAP, I must go rest. Ha. It’s hard to be me.

Lately I haven’t had any clue as to what to write here. There are lots of things going on in my life, but most of them are me either doing absolutely nothing or busying myself with errands or projects. The other 50% of my time is spent complaining or whining about how tired I am, or how fat I am. Blah Blah Blah….that gets old after a while. Oh and there is the dog. I hesitate talking about her here because..well I don’t know…it would become a dawg blawg if I did and that is totally unnessesary!

By nature I get defeated easily, yet I always end up getting thru it in the end. This time is just one of those periods of time I need to just get through. Somewhere through all the fog of the dog troubles, the kids growing, not getting the jobs I wanted, this stupid sleep issue, money issues, and the insecurities and inadequacies I feel from all these stresses, I do see light at the very end of what could be a long tunnel.

Some would say, just buck up sweetie and get over it. Others would say I am sorry you are going thru hard times. And I do. I buck it up on a daily basis, get out of bed everyday and move forward and do what needs to be done. And thank you for feeling sympathy for me and my situation. It can be hard some days, but not nearly as hard as some people have it and I know this.

So as boring as a post this is. This is what is on my mind. I did ask for a book this one for Christmas from Jon, so hopefully by Jan. I will have more fun things to talk about. Or at least provoke deep thought about myself and my life, but I doubt it. Haha.
anyway, back to your lives people. I was goign to go to the gym today and I still could at this point, but I didn’t wash any work out clothes, so I guess that is out.