Weekend down, 4 days to go..

I am sad to report that I am at the point of almost living for the weekends. Why? Not quite sure except sleep. I am so tired these days but am not sleeping well. Like on Friday night, I ended up staying up until 5am when I finally went to bed and slept till noon. Then Saturday night, I went to bed at 4 and up at 7. Sunday night, bed at 11 up at 4, Monday night, bed at 2 up at 5. I am truly too old for this shit. I need my non-beauty rest.

The kids FINALLY got their Xmas presents from their dad. They were excited and I'm glad he finally came through for them.

Today is the princess's physical hopefully i have everything I need for that.

I had to change my PT schedule for this week to Wed & Fri. I am supposed to go play pool Wed night with a friend. We'll see how that goes. I am excited though. I want to start playing more, again.

Physically, I've been doing pretty good, especially with my screwed up sleep schedule. My neck is always hurting, but I have to just keep plugging along because lying in bed isn't going to help things and I have stuff that needs to be done. I am a bit anxious for my neck shots, but will just keep doing PT until that happens. A month out now. Crap, i wish it was a bit sooner.

The weekend was spent gaming, which was fun. I am leveling up alright since the expansion came out, but I still wish I had more time to committ to it. I feel a bit inadequate in some of the instances, but I guess that just takes time. *sigh*

Still trying to finagle going to the Czech Republic in August and now maybe Orlando with the kids in June. Dang. Too much traveling I want to do, not enough funds to do it.

How are you? Me? I'm Asstastic!!

Well I had full intent on posting more this week, but circumstances kind of took hold and ran with the whole family this week.

Everyone has been sick. I went to the dr. and have a respiratory infection. Pretty sure, thats what everyone else has too, though they aren't wanting to buck up and go to the doctor. The princess has had a rough emotional week as she's missing her dad and a boy she likes is being a jerk. Its also pms week, so she's got a rollercoaster going on anyway. the Boy has just been, well, a teenage boy. The Honey has been sick as well, so the grumps has roamed the house. Four out of six of us at work were sick, so that was fun. Princess and I stayed home from school/work once this week, the boy, he might be staying home today. He was sounding worse for wear as he was headed to bed last night. The Honey? well he's had some time off, but not because of being sick. We also had our water heater replaced. Now, fortunately for all of this, we actually purchased the new water heater before the old one died. I think I might have actually killed people if I would have been out of hot water this week. But, nonetheless, he ended up having to take 1/2 day on monday, and 1/2 day on thursday to go meet with the water heater installer. Oh yeah, it also cost an additional $150 to get the stupid thing installed because of the age of our old water heater and the building codes having changed. They had to run a new gas line, new ventilation, move the water heater away from the wall, holy crap enough shit. I still think thats what we paid the $250 to Sears for in the first place, but what do I know.

Work has been busy, despite my not wanting to be there due to feeling generally craptacular. On wednesday one boss got pissy and jumped my shit. Apologized that he was a little bitch, but still I was feeling like shit and he jumped me first thing in the morning about stuff i didn't have control over. Fuck, it was not a good way to start the day. Besides that incident, however, its been a fairly productive week. I have worked on documentation, interviews for new Sys Admin, general this that and the other things. The Honey has also been busy and I haven't seen him but one day this week for lunch. Weird. He's just had to be down at the colo alot workin on servers. Oh well, I suppose that keeps us from fighting, we may work at the same place, but we arent' in each others faces all day and all night.

I cancelled PT on tuesday because of being contagious and staying home from work. I went on thursday and feel alright. I needed the workout because i hadn't done it since last week and had spent alot of time just lying in bed. It felt good, I even felt good enough to cook dinner last night. I thought it was good, too! Baked Chicken with Raspberry Chipotle sauce, steamed brussel sprouts and yellow squash and some long grain rice. Overly healthy for our household. Everyone ate the chicken and rice. Roommate and I are the only ones that ate the veggies. HA! coulda figured that one, but they were good for me! I am sore this morning, with a bit of a neck headache, but eh, that is how it seems to be almost every day. I finally got a call scheduling my cervical spine injections. Its a month out. I will be sedated and it will take like 2.5 hours and have to have someone drive me home. Jeez, thats kinda nuts, but ok. So i got the time off, then realized that I had to have the Honey get the time off too.

The Princess has her physical at the dr. on Tuesday next week. Man, so many things that I think I am forgetting. Got the information on my nephew's graduation in May. I think that I can swing me and the kids at least, maybe the Honey going to it. It will be a long drive, and expensive hotels, but I think that it will be worth it. Then I still have to figure out how to get me and the kids to Oregon for my brother's wedding. Man, i need to really work my weight issue. Damn. Ok.. fuck..

Thats all now. More snow this weekend. For those of me counting, that is a glorious 6 weekends in a row for heavy snow/artic temperatures.

I almost can't believe it...

Here are things that have shocked me this week:

Snow.. this weekend.. SurFUCKINGprise... this will be weekend 5 ruined by craptacular weather. Hrm. oh well. Its not so much the snow as it is the artic temperatures that freezes your skin immediately.

my neck is still terribly stiff. This is about a full week of almost delibitating stiffness. Unfortunately I still have the pleasure of dragging my ass out of bed to go to work every day and come home, make dinner and deal with the kids, dogs & family. I had therapy on tuesday, did some traction and leg exercises, went home and went to bed. Wednesday i felt better, but still way stiff. Thank goodness the headache was mostly gone, so i functioned pretty well. I couldn't sleep at all last night, finally dozing off around 2. I am Tiiiirrreeed this morning and my neck is super stiff. I am on a low to moderate headache this morning, but can feel that it is not going to get better without getting worse. Maybe the traction will help today. We'll see.

the ex-husband called. from his girlfriends phone. I asked him whose number he was calling from. he says "oh its Heather's" in the back ground, screaming like a stuck pig, i hear "why does she need to know whose phone it is" WTF bitch? holy shit, are we 7? i should buy a calling card and continuously call her stupid ass now that i have her phone number. somethings to think about there. Anyway.. he called, he said he got the princess a phone and the boy his Heely's for xmas and was going to be sending them like next week. At this point, all i give a shit about is that he either give up the goods, or stop bullshitting the kids about giving up the goods. Fucking make good on one single fucking promise for once.

Lindsey Lohan entered rehab. Now, I am a closet celebrity watcher. I dont' actually buy the magazines or track them down, but I read the Entertainment section of the newspaper first thing in the morning and look at people.com. Its a sad world when I am totally not surprised by this news. what a train wreck that girl has turned out to be. Not quite as bad as kate moss, but i see a similar future. Sad, she was a good actress as a little girl, now she's a burnout and a wash up at 20. I don't see too many of those make a Drew Barrymore-like comeback. And I just love Drew.

Okay, enough ranting. time to get to work.

{Listening to Route 66 by Brian Setzer Orchestra}

Is is summer yet?

ok, so its been a couple weeks, but lots has been happening. Or at least it seems like lots has been happening.

first and foremost, there has been snow. And once the snow was gone, there was more snow, that was topped off with some ball breaking cold and snow. Four weekends in a row there has been snow. Not just a little bit of snow. AfuckingLOT of snow.

secondly, work has been balls to the walls busy. Lots of people in the office, lots of things needing done, not enough time to do it.

thirdly, i have been in pain since before Christmas. My neck has been nothing less than a constant source of issue. Some days I can't move, some nights I can't sleep. I have these beautiful headaches that go with it. I keep going to PT for my knee, but nothing seems to be happening with my neck much. Any exercise causes more pain over the next few days. Yesterday I went to the dr. and FINALLY got my MRI results. I have 3 bulging discs. I also have the honor of being referred to an anethesiologist who will give me shots into the cervical spine joints to help alleviate some of the irritation and swelling in the joints. I am now waiting on that referral. All of the ice from the snow storms we've had has done nothing short of wreaking havoc with my knee. I am like an old lady trying to walk anywhere. I have slipped, but only because it has been that frigging slick. I have been so cautious every step, that it takes me about 10 minutes to walk from the parking lot into a store. I just take very careful small steps and wear very treaded shoes.

the kids have been needing run around everywhere for everything. I used to think "Oh hell no, they won't drive" Now I think "I can't wait for you to drive yourself everywhere". the expansion for my game has come out, though I don't know when I will be able to play it. I can't currently sit at my computer for that long without enduring pain or a sleepless night.
I really just haven't been able to do much.

We had to spend $750 on a new water heater this weekend. Totally not where the money wanted to go, but it was before the water heater totally died, so I guess thats good. Just need to make sure it lasts this week while we wait on the new one. The Honey still needs new tires and shocks for the Expedition. That will probably have to wait another 2 weeks or month. Sheesh.

I am hoping that I will be able to go to Europe with the honey. It is now looking like it might be the Czech Republic in August. We will have to see how that all works out. Also need to get to my nephews HS graduation in May and Eugene, OR for my brothers wedding in July. Damn, lots of money on airlines comin my way. EEKA!

Still the kids have not received Xmas gifts from their dad. he keeps telling the princess its another couple weeks for her phone. She hit me for $100 extra text messaging on the bill this month. She is currently grounded. I am ready to have no phone for her. I think thats where it might be going. I still can't believe that he still hasn't gotten their gifts. Sheez. They will be out there for Spring break before they get anything. I feel bad for them. I feel worse for him that he doesn't even know what an ass he is.

{Listening to: Enya - I Want Tomorrow} This is about all I can handle this morning due to the head pounding.
So, when I say there has been lots going on, mostly I mean there has been lots of snow, lots of pain, lots of work, lots ofexpenses and some other stuff thrown in.

Back to the grind..

Yes.. vacation is officially over. Though there is more snow coming this weekend. Sheesh, the white shit falling from the sky needs to stop. Actually, its not the snow I take issue with. It is actually very nice and absolutely gorgeous when it snows. I can get over the cold, too. It is when it ices the streets and I am under house arrest. It has definately been much better with the Expedition now, but for fucks sake, it has snowed A LOT in the last 2 weeks.

So whats been going on? Well, the new year has come and gone, the honey's birthday is new years eve, so we had a good day. He got an iPod, and now is like everyone else in the house. 5 iPod Holiday Season, holy shit its expensive. The Princess conned me into her $200 Northface down jacket. Ok, I gave in because she absolutely had NO FUCKING JACKET, but I relented on the Northface one because its what she really wanted. To hell with paying bills. Who needs to do that with money? It was the end of Xmas.. as it has always seemed to last from Xmas to New Years anyway. I guess thats the benefit of having a shop-a-holic mom, you get to beg and plead for the after Xmas sales and she will give in. The Boy got a new jacket too, but not quite the level of the Princess' jacket.

So what else besides spending money? uh.. not a whole lot. During the home confinement, the Honey and cleaned the shit out of our bedroom, got like 3 bags of clothes to go to the Goodwill. We also got more of the bathroom done, and hopefully might be able to tile the damn thing in the next month. Its all thats left, tile and grout the shower. I can't wait. Actually, I can wait. I have been waiting like almost a year for the damn thing to be finished. I can wait longer. I am on a mission to clear the house of clutter. We are working one room at a time. The bedroom was room 2. Next up, the office! We actually made progress on that room, in that we bought all the brackets for the shelving units and now we just need to get the shelves up and getting 8ft shelving off the floor of the office will go a long way to starting on that room.

I had my first PT in 2 weeks. The snow and holidays have kept me from it. I could tell that I hadn't done my ball exercises at home much, but definately got a workout. Though, today, I am sore and my neck hurts, so does my knee, I know it was good for me. Thursday is coming fast, I can tell.

need to call and find out about my MRI, get the Princess scheduled for a physical, do something else, I'm sure. *sigh*, too much to do. Busy at work. Ugh! but thats how it goes. Life never slows down.

Oh yeah, obviously the kids didn't make it to their dads because of the storm. I was a bit sad for them, but relieved. Now I get to spend the next 6 months dreading his pressure on the Princess over the summer. Maybe, they will be busy and won't have to spend too much time with himm. Hrm..