"Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied." -Douglas Adams
Things have been going along swimmingly. Classes are great, I think I’m finally getting the hang of my student nurse gig, the kids have been pretty decent about getting up and going to school, no major fights over homework, I’ve been keeping up with scouts, soccer, etc. And then I got sick today. At 4pm [...]
(the rent is late…) The van’s left front tire hub bearing went out. It’s fixed now. Yay for the $530 repair bill… I kinda forgot to buy all the non-school-ish things on the kids’ school supply list. Like the 7 boxes of tissues, ziplock baggies, disinfecting wipes, etc. Those bug me, doesn’t everyone else in [...]
So after my whine yesterday, I drank half a bottle of wine, the kids calmed down, and I goofed around on the internet for awhile. I decided to make a version of this quilt since I have lots of fabric laying (lying?) around the house. Cut and sew, cut and sew, the strips all came [...]
2 days of having the kids back and I currently have a headache of monstrous proportions. Like a super serious headache, almost to a migrane, that makes me want to scream in agony when one of the kids comes into view. It’s like a Pavlov’s dog response because I know after I see the kid, [...]
The weirdest thing about working nights is that you start on one day and finish on another. And then you often go back in on the same day you just worked. So I did “3 twelves in a row” this week which was Monday night to Tuesday morning, Tuesday night to Wednesday morning, Wednesday night [...]
Recently I’ve felt like a lot of “new” with the gadgets in my life. I had to get a new digital camera as I mentioned before, although I went with a model “older” than current one available cause really, I don’t need the ability to take HD movies on my camera. And I was able [...]
… I’ll get it all figured out. I had one of those “WTF am I doing?” moments earlier today and I’m determined to figure out a better course of action in some areas of my life. The first one is now the only answer I’m giving G is “NO”. I’m back to the emotional stress [...]