Snippet City

The survivor edition!

In an attempt to catch you up and help me keep track of all of the things I want to blog about…I’m doing bullet points here…some other bloggers I know have done this as well recently, so I’m following their lead!

• Rogan had goopy eyes, I mean really goopy…so he and are staying home this weekend while Daddy and mack head to Lexington to see family…I must admit, I am disappointed but that goopy eyed little boy does not need to travel…he has a doctor’s appointment today at 10:50!
• I accidentally killed a caterpillar yesterday…details in another blog.
• I’m getting involved in an awesome fund raiser, it’s called Benchmark and I could not be more excited about it…details in another blog!
• Mike has not yet been back for the follow up to verify that all swimmers have indeed ceased and desisted…thus another pack of $35.00 birth control have been purchased!
• Spent a small fortune at Target yesterday on fun outdoorsy stuff for the kids…AND a King down-alternative comforter for us…that comforter: $35.00!!  Now that is a bargain!!  So of course I’m on the hunt for an affordable duvet! And damn it, I will find one!
• I am in love with this TV stand:

• And I’m saving my money until I can buy it!
• I am also in love with these boots:
• And I will save my money so I can buy those too!!
• I miss my sister so damn much.  I feel like we got a taste of spending quality time together when I went out to Portland, and I want more!
• I’m getting a lot out of my counseling sessions.  We’ve discussed many things including my Dad and my Mum, and so far I’m feeling really positive about the way I’ve been handling things.
• As a result of the previously mentioned, I’ve developed a theory about what role parents play when they come for a visit! More on this in another post!
• Just had Rogan diagnosed…pink eye…both eyes!
• And me?  I think I’m in the very early stages of another bladder infection…more information than you really want, but my pee starts smelling kind of funny when I get these infections, and yes I’ve had them and self-diagnosed them before!
• Waiting for a call from the on-call physician to start a prescription before everyone is unreachable for the weekend!
• It would seem that Mike made the best choice by vacating these diseased quarters!
• Oh and I found a tick crawling in my arm, while sitting here at my computer!
• Quickly gave Mazie her flea and tick treatment and I really hope that was the one and only tick that gets in to my house!
• And how come when I use the word “blog” in my blog,  spell-check tells me that I spelled it wrong?  That’s just not right!
• Oh, and enjoy your Memorial Day Weekend!  And if you want to take a moment to observe this national day of remembrance, you can participate in a “National Moment of Remembrance“: at 3 p.m. on Monday to pause and think upon the true meaning of the day.

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1. Mike leaves tonight to travel until late Tuesday night, which really isn’t that long but the Sunday night departure really does a number on me.
2. Rogan has been peeing in the potty daily…he’s still in diapers and peeing there too but this is a huge success in our lives.
3. The boys just woke Mike up with volume, I was trying to let him sleep in a little.  I don’t feel bad, he’s going out of town, and did I mention he’s leaving on a Sunday night?
4. I made a couple of watches and donated them to a silent auction for the Elkhart Mental Health Association.  (I didn’t actually “make” the watches, I made cute bands for watch faces that I buy!)
   

   I didn't make this one, but mine are similar!!

5. Just finished reading The Secret Life of Bees and it was really good.  I would recommend it!
6. No sign of Mike, maybe he just got up to pee and went back to bed!…Oh there is he is!
7. Be right back…NEED COFFEE!!
8. Before I mention #8 here, I’ll preface it by saying that Rogan still sleeps in his crib.  He’s a roller, a mover and a shaker…so we’ve been hesitant to move him to a big boy bed.  Besides that, McKade slept in a crib until he was 3+ as well, so this is typical for our boys.  Anyway, the crib Ro is in convertible and today we removing the front portion so that he can now climb in and out by himself!!  Yeah!
9. I’m very curious to know how many “adult-children” experience relatively serious conflict with their parents.  Specifically how many adult women experience difficulty with their fathers and how that has manifested itself in their other intimate relationships.  I don’t doubt for one minute that the partners I have chosen over the years were directly influenced by deep seeded issues with my Dad.
10. An unlucky bird built their nest in the kids’ swing set, right in the little clubhouse area.  Of course we thought it best to move it both for the safety of the boys and the welfare of the baby birds.  There were no eggs in the nest yet, I begged Mike to move the nest into a nearby tree in the hopes that the bird will go along with the new digs!  I know, this is not realistic!
11. Mmmmmm, good coffee!
12. Rogan just gave me a really big tight hug and he said his cousin Christopher taught him how to give a really “hard hug”.  Remind me to call and thank Christopher for teaching this wonderful hug technique!
13. Mike finished working on the benches he’s been building for several weeks months??!!  They look great!
    

    New play equipment for the boys!!

14. My tribute to I can has Cheezburger:
    

    I iz in yoor drawer, cuddling wif yoor offiss suplies!

One of Many Lists

I have so many lists going right now and I keep putting them in different places and starting new and not finishing the old ones and so on and so forth!   Here’s just one more to add to the collection.

• I’m really sleepy today…Mike went into work at 1am-ish which woke me up, I went back to sleep then I woke up again and could not get back to sleep around 3am-ish,  (did that make any sense?!?!?)
• Rogan and I went to the mall today…I was in need to new inserts for my slippers…yes slippers,
• A while back my doctor told me I had Plantar Fasciitis and that I am no longer allowed to walk around the house barefoot and that sucks,
• So I invested in decent slippers and even more decent orthotics, which helps but costs as much as a decent pair of shoes,
• I’ve decided that Plantar Fasciitis is the Stay-At-Home-Mom disease!!,
• I am in the middle of 5 loads of laundry,
• Why is it that when McKade says something to me, and I hear everything but the last word, and then I repeat everything but the last word back to him + the word “what” at the end, he then repeats the entire sentence again instead of just the last word?,
• We have 3 home improvement projects going on in the house:
• Painting walls in the living room and office,
• Mike is re-caulking the master shower,
• And Mike is continuing to work on the patio area in the backyard,
• I feel a little obsessed about facebook and the information it provides about people we would not normally know anything about short of what was left in the past with the last contact we had,
• Tonight I will be going to Bodypump,
• Last Saturday I attended a training for Silver Sneakers Yogastretch, it’s a class I will begin teaching at my gym in addition to the other two classes I currently teach,
• I freaked out on Friday…I realized I had not yet started my period, and I’m ON THE PILL, which means there is a predictability to that time of the month, and I was not on my “normal” schedule,
• I actually took a test which was negative, and then started the next day,
• That little scare put everything in perspective:  I am done!!  I do not want anymore children,
• OK I think I’m done rambling!!