September and Everything After

Today’s been a long hard day. Normally I’d honestly not talk about it but it’s kind of one of those “this is a big huge day and I’d like to remember it years from now” type things. Or maybe not remember it, whichever.

So last night I arrived home really late from Stitches. I knew that was going to happen but it didn’t make it any easier. I love the event, don’t get me wrong, but I’m not the type of person who can do 4 days of schmoozing with the public and not be completely exhausted by it. worn out part 1

Last night was G’s last night here for a long time. He had major packing to do and I stayed up with him. Well that and he was trying to do it on top of the bed. 150+ pounds of luggage and 3 hours later, it was done. Did I mention it was already really late when I returned home? worn out part 2

The kids… I missed them all weekend but I didn’t miss the mess I dealt with this morning when no one could find shoes or socks, the dishwasher hadn’t been run (no clean dishes!) and Kyle split half a gallon of milk. I haven’t even begun to try to get everything back in order. And why are there wet towels in bowls in the laundry room? No one can answer this one. worn out part 3

The divorce. The settlement papers are done. We signed them together last night (gah this is still so weird) and I dropped them off at his lawyer’s office this morning. We have to wait on the judge to approve, it’ll probably be 2 weeks and there won’t be any court date. And it’ll be done. worn out part 4

School. It’s amazing how behind you get after missing only 2 days. And it didn’t help that I hadn’t looked ahead in the syllabus beyond “oh thank God, no tests or quizzes on Thursday or Friday”. So I didn’t have today’s Econ outline lecture notes printed (lots of mad scribbling during class instead) and I have both a Physiology quiz (lecture) and test (lab) tomorrow. worn out part 5

The business & Stitches (continued). It wasn’t quite the weekend I wanted. I broke even and have some profit but that was mostly because I kept my expenses super low this time around. I had a good time (and I forced myself to be positive all weekend in the first place) and I’ll probably do it again if it’ll work into my schedule easily. I have one order to sew and I need to inventory what’s leftover to put my Etsy shop back up. And then I need to take pictures and list all the new fabrics. worn out part 6

It’s Monday. Today we have religion class, 2 soccer practices, and 2 scout meetings. All in different locations and between the hours of 4:30 and 8:30pm. I just can’t do it all today so we’re skipping both soccer practices and at least 1 scout meeting. I should have arranged a pick up/drop off for the other scout meeting earlier but I can’t do it all. I’m told the world will continue to spin if we miss a few things now and then. worn out part 7

And then there’s just the other random crap, I need to go grocery shopping, there’s laundry to do, dishwasher needs run (I need to hit a button, it’ll happen soon), go through the big stack of mail from 4 days, I’ve completely ignored Girl Scouts for awhile and I *think* I have a leader meeting tomorrow and I know I have a Daisy meeting (needs planned) on Thursday. Plus the kids might want dinner tonight (it’s been decided, delivery pizza). worn out part 8,9,10,11,12,13,14…

Not to be a complete Debbie Downer (I’m just tired, not really upset about anything. Or maybe I’m too tired to be upset over these things, who knows), I’d like to thank everyone who has helped me out. My sister for hanging out with me all weekend and dealing with crazy knitters, my in-laws for helping G and the kids while I was gone, and everyone else for any little encouraging comment, email, smile, etc. I do notice even if I can’t properly thank you at the time.

It’ll get better, it always does. I’m taking it easy on myself today and will get a good night’s sleep and start chipping away at the mountain tomorrow.

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