Trying To Get Refocused

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Its amazing sometimes how much an illness can throw you off track.  Especially when that wonderful time of the month pops its head up as well.  Rather feel like everything fell down around my ears while I was battling a cold and Kidlet had some stomach virus.  But its a new day now, she’s at school and I’m home and ready for action!  Oh, and a ton of coffee.  Today is one of those days I really wish I could just stick a coffee IV in me and go about my day.

Lots to do, have to get my home back into some sort of order, make some money (don’t we all?) and get ready for the fun to start on Wednesday!  I’ll have a brand new, bouncing nephew to coo at and take pictures of then.  Which means many hospital hours!  Its worth it though, but I’d like to be able to spend time with my family without worrying overmuch about everything at home.  Also this week is a sleep over for Kidlet at a friend’s house, and social time for Momma!  Yay!  I get to talk to grownups who aren’t a member of my family! :)

Part of the revamp is having a more active social life, I can’t play the hermit forever.  And its fun to get together with close friends and do things, besides the normal round of kid’s birthday parties.  I would like to entertain more at home as well.  Lots of plans swirling around this head.  But first I have to get the foundation started!  Can’t go jumping in without a plan, that gets me nowhere fast.  I’ll get back on top of my game one way or another…even if it kills me.

Still Sick And Another Blog…

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Well, besides being sick (and utterly exhausted) things are going a fair deal better today.  For one thing, Kidlet has school!  I could dance.  I love my baby, but she is a handful…and I’m her sole entertainment.  The weather is still crappy though, keeps going from rain, to slush, to snow and back through the cycle again.  My ankle is doing much better today, so I’m aiming for a far more productive day today.  Still probably going to require lots of coffee and a nap at some point!

I can be so stubborn when it comes to my own physical pain, I ignore it.  Not to the point of ridiculous (usually), but I don’t let it stop me from getting things done.  I limped around most of the day yesterday cleaning, cooking, playing with Kidlet etc.  Of course I did have to warn her about playing too rough when Momma is “broken”.  I’d say based on how my ankle feels today, I didn’t break it.  Its still sore, but not at all painful.

For those of you into housework (or need some help with it), I actually started a new blog.  I know, another one.  Its called Chaos To Organized, and its basically me talking about my day and what I got done, housework-wise.  There will be much more eventually, such as cleaning tips, cleaning product reviews and things of that nature, but for right now its pretty much just me cleaning.  There are pictures though, and will be more!  I’ll be focusing on this blog, Chaos To Organized, and Through The Library Window the most.

I swear, that World Record for the most blogs is right around the corner….

Discombobulated

I’m all kinds of out of sorts today, which is rather disappointing after the productive day I had yesterday.  Maybe its the Friday blues, or I’m coming down with something.  Not sure yet, though I don’t feel all that great physically either right now.  But that could be many things, not just illness.  I’ll have to wait and see if a cold is developing or not.  I’m really hoping for not, as I need my faculties in order to drag myself out of the chaos my life is right now.

Woke up late this morning, which I’m sure did not help matters any.  Had to drive Kidlet to school, and that really screwed with my morning routine.  This whole week has been off kilter to say the least!  All I want to do right now is to go back to bed and sleep for a week, but obviously I’m fighting that urge.  Too much to do, and now less time to do it in!

Guess you can’t fight nature.  So today I’m just going to do what I can, when I can.

Woman Vs Squirrel

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The battle continues.  Last night I found yet another possible entrance for this thing…I’m being invaded on all ends.  Still guessing its a squirrel, due to the sheer amount of damage and destructiveness.  One corner of my living room is now missing about a 2-3 inch by 6ish inch patch of carpeting.  Why?  Apparently just cause it can.  Also found what looks to be squirrel droppings in my daughter’s clothes drawers.  Yeah, thanks for making more work for me you little shit.  Anyone know of any cheap and easy squirrel deterrent?  I’ve already tried Peppermint Oil…apparently that isn’t phasing this guy…or I need to refresh certain cotton balls.  Its worked on the mice, but this squirrel is bound and determined to get in here.  Dad’s supposed to come over today, lets see how THAT goes.

In other news:

This has actually been a fairly productive morning, at least as far as cleaning goes.  I’m still really tired, but I had to clean up some of Kidlet’s mess, and make things look semi-presentable in here.  There’s still much more to do, as always, but I’ve gotten a decent start.  And now its time to focus on writing and things of that nature.

Yesterday was grocery shopping day.  Is the price of food ever going to go DOWN?  I only have to feed two people, and it costs me over $400 a month to do so.  I know I can cut some things out, but not a lot.  Its ridiculous!  And I buy mostly ingredients, not premade meals.  I can’t wait for spring and garden season, that should help cut some of my grocery bill down.  And the produce won’t be tasteless and over handled.

My brother Jeff and his wife and daughter are due to arrive at some point today.  Hoping Dad can migrate his way over here before they get here.  Kristin and Matt had a false alarm with the baby last night, was rather glad I had bought my baby shower gift already!  This is going to be a busy weekend, with Kristin’s baby shower and Jeff’s visit.  One thing that’s really bugging me is the fact that I can’t remember if I got my niece a Glow Worm.  Its my traditional gift, and I know I bought one for Mikey and now one for the new baby-to-be, but I can’t recall if I gave one to Sam or not.  I’m pretty sure she was the first one, but now I’m all unsure.  Don’t you hate that?  Guess I’ll have to ask Jeff if I did or not.

Yay, Its Tuesday

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Been feeling cruddy since Thursday.  Blech.  Nothing of any import got done all weekend, although I did drag my cruddy rear end to the store to pick up birthday cards for Mom’s birthday on Saturday.  Her birthday was Sunday.  My little brother and his wife took Mom and Dad out to eat Sunday night, while I watched the kiddos.  I haven’t even wanted to play Sims 2, so I settled for lots of reading.  Now my house is trashed, I still feel cruddy, and I need to catch up on book reviews.  Thinking I’m just going to drag out my timer and work on things a few minutes at a time as I can.  Feeling pretty restless, so I figure I might as well make it productive.

Dad is trying to get Matt over here to help him move my washer and dryer…so they can investigate the critter invasion.  From what I heard the other night, its coming through under there.  But I don’t know if there is a hole under there, or if they are coming through the wall from the back closet.  Or if there is somewhere completely unrelated that they are coming through.  All I care about is finding the entrance and blocking it.  I severely dislike having critters in my home.  Still not sure what the fascination is with the Play Dough, but I guess it keeps it occupied.  Still haven’t gotten a glimpse of the critter, but I still suspect squirrel.  Red to be precise.  Nasty lil buggers.

How was everyone else’s weekend?

Today Has Been Declared OFF!

And pretty much the rest of the weekend too.  I’ve declared this weekend a state of emergency for myself.  I’m exhausted, not feeling too hot…I think last weekend finally caught up with me.  All I’ve done so far today was sleep, post a book review on Through The Library Window, and now I’m writing this blog post.  I’ll probably still mosey about, not saying that its going to be completely unproductive.  But I sense that there will be an awful lot of Sims 2 being played.

I don’t want to burn out before truly getting started.  I’ll see you on Monday, unless I have something particularly blog worthy. :)

It's A Sims 2 Day...

I think all this time outside helping Dad until well past dark made me sick.  I've felt like crud the past two days, and yesterday was spent once again helping Dad with his projects.  So now I'm almost twice as bad.  I just want to sleep, but I don't think that's a good idea...so I'm spending the day doing "light" work, such as playing video games and writing when my brain cooperates.  Yes I know I shouldn't "wait" for inspiration, but I put the creamer in the cupboard, went to take it back out of the fridge after I already have, and almost dumped it into a glass rather then my coffee mug.  And that's just the adventures of the creamer!  So I'm not exactly trusting my brain to string too many words together right now.

And I never finished the blog post yesterday.  Its been sitting here since 11:48am...yup, I'm not having a good couple of days!

I'm still all kinds of wonky and woozy, and I have to take Mother grocery shopping in a couple of hours.  I would be grocery shopping as well, but unfortunately I haven't gotten the food stamp issue resolved.  No one wants to call me back, and frankly, its pissing me off.  Of course yesterday the phone was ringing off the damn hook, so no one could have gotten through if they tried.  Hopefully I hear before going out, and then I can get the food we need.

I'm trying to be gentle on myself, even though my to do list is as usual taller then myself.  But I don't to end up finding out that I put something in a cupboard by mistake, or screw up something royally.  Piecing together words is hard enough right now!  Ugh, and I have to drive?  This ought to be amusing.

Its another Sims 2 day...






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