Footprints on the Moon

Happy Pi Day! I didn’t have any. Pie, that is. I had a rather productive weekend though. I went grocery shopping and got food for the week plus food for lunches at work. I bought 6 new shirts to wear since a lot of mine are rather ratty looking. And I bought Madelyn’s birthday present since she turns ONE next week!

After I finished spending all my money, I came home and put everything away and then started cleaning. The living room is still rather cluttered, but the rest of my apartment looks nice!

Oh! And back in the realm of spending money… I finally purchased renter’s insurance! Just shy of four years after I started renting this apartment lol I emptied one of my ING accounts to pay for the year in full in order to avoid any fees. THEN I really stopped spending all my money!

Now I’m just trying to get myself in bed. It’s difficult because it’s definitely past my bedtime, but it doesn’t feel like it because it’s “really” only 8pm and not 9pm. I hate Daylight Savings Time. Curse Mitch Daniels, the dip machine, and his switching Indiana onto DST… I rather liked being one of the only holdouts and not having to change my clocks twice a year. This time of year, we used to be on central time, and now we’re on Eastern time year round. It stays light WAAAAY too late in the middle of the summer, we’re too far west to be in this timezone. But I digress. I could whine about DST forever. In the meantime, I’m going to try and go to bed now because the feelings of jetlag will be bad enough tomorrow without me staying up way too late.

Does anyone else feel like their blog has been added to a free web directory for spammers? They seem to be coming out of the woodwork to leave weird comments lately.

Anyways! Man, Sundays sure do seem to come around quickly these days! Friday takes long enough to get here, but then before I know it, it’s almost time for bed on Sunday night. Something seems seriously unfair about that! I had a pretty good weekend though.

Friday night was a benefit for my cousin Izzy. You may recall that she lost her husband back in November. Friday night was a benefit to raise money to help her and her daughter pay the bills that were left behind. There was a great turnout, and an amazing show of support for her.

Saturday, I spent the day relaxing… I’ve been fighting a pretty nasty cough for the last week, so I was hoping if I could just rest, relax, maybe take a nap, my body would have a chance to heal a little bit. I’m still coughing, but today I had to do at least some cleaning… my apartment was a wreck! Still is, but it’s better than it was. Hopefully the cough will improve soon because I really don’t want (and can’t afford) to go to the doctor and people keep yelling at me because I haven’t gone lol

Well hello there! I’m still alive even if I haven’t blogged in a couple of weeks. I just haven’t had the mental energy to deal with it! Between Grandma being sick, and worrying about Jason who is still in Ann Arbor fighting for his life I just haven’t wanted to come over here and deal with the every day mundane things like linking to glucomannan or talking about how I’ve gone to work everyday and everything was business as usual. Plus in the middle of that, my modem went bad and I had no internet for several days until I was able to call Comcast and schedule a service visit.

Anyways. The last time I posted about Jason, he was in the hospital with a fever of 104. Things got markedly worse from there as his fever shot up to 107, and nothing they could do would bring it down. They ended up putting him on a ventilator and then into a medically induced coma to keep him calm and try and let his body heal. By the time they decided to airlift him to Ann Arbor to be put on a heart and lung machine, he was on full life support, his kidneys had started to fail, and the doctor here was only giving him a less than 25% chance of survival.

Thankfully things started turning around once they got him in Ann Arbor. He’s improved quite a bit, but there’s still a very long way to go. Even today, he had a very rough day and they had to take the ventilator back up to 100% before backing it off to 60%. They have him off the paralytics, and we’re all just praying that he continues to improve every day. As of right now, we have no way of knowing what kind of recovery time line he’ll be looking at, or even what kind of lasting damage he’ll be dealing with. They’re still trying to get him out of the woods.

Needless to say, your continued prayers would be very much appreciated. He’s got a wife and a baby girl, as well as a large extended family that really need him to recover and come home!

Okay, obviously I didn’t take this picture today. Well, maybe it’s not obvious, but I did in fact take this picture yesterday, on my way out the door. I went over to my grandma’s to hand out candy to her trick or treaters. I live in an apartment with a locked lobby, so I’m fairly confident that I get zero kids coming by, or close to it anyways. So I dress up and go hand out candy at Grandma’s. I had at least one kid come up to get candy and yell “It’s Coraline!” so that was cool.

I noticed a couple of things though. First, what happened to manners? Except for the real little ones who were still holding onto Mom or Dad’s hand, we got very few thank yous. When I was younger and still going around, we all said thank you at every single house. Even handing out candy last year, the kids were very polite. Not so much this year.

Second… there was a house somewhere in the neighborhood handing out small cups of cider. Since when do parents let their kids have something like that? Did they buy term life insurance first? Maybe I’m overly paranoid… or just old enough to remember the horror stories around Halloween every year about things added to candy or whatever. My kids wouldn’t have been drinking the cider… and we wouldn’t have been able to drink it when we were young, you just don’t know! Take it to be polite, but throw it out later. I remember there was always an older guy in the neighborhood we trick or treated in as kids that would hand out Twizzlers. As in, peeled individually out of a regular package. We took it, said thank you, and threw it away at the next trash can.

Mom and I were the odd ducks out on that argument last night. What do you guys think? Prepackaged candy only for your kids from complete strangers?

Hello there! This is me earlier this afternoon before I headed over to Aiden’s birthday party. Don’t mind the crazy acne I’ve been dealing with all week. I had a pretty good weekend, even if I’m not ready for it to be over yet!! I got to hang out with one of my best friends on Saturday, and then got some cleaning done.

Then today, as I mentioned, I went to Aiden’s birthday party. It’s hard to believe that he’s 3 years old already! And that any of my friends are old enough to have three year olds! Seriously, weren’t we just in high school yesterday?

Happy Sunday! I had big plans to be super productive today… grocery shopping, laundry, cleaning, the works. So far, I can’t even muster up the energy to clean out the kitchen sinks, much less drag myself out to the grocery store… and then back up a flight of stairs with my bags. My cupboards aren’t completely empty yet, I think I can put it off for another day or two lol

I do need to get motivated enough to do at least one load of laundry though because I don’t have any clean uniforms for work tomorrow. I have to admit, that’s probably the extent of the productivity that is going to happen today. I’m feeling slightly under the weather, so I’m thinking a day of rest can’t be too bad of an idea. Not sick per se, just not great. Just a headache and trying not to take a nap.

Me + the couch + a blanket + a book = sounds like a good lazy Sunday to me!

Okay, it’s not a self portrait, and it sure wasn’t taken on Sunday, but it’s all you’re going to get, so there! I haven’t showered today, I’ve just been going back and forth between cleaning and being a bum. This picture was taken on Friday at the gun range. Aren’t you scared?

That was how I spent my Friday night, and I have to tell you, I was unprepared for how nervous I was going to be. Public speaking fear has got nothing on the fear for picking up a loaded gun for the first time. It was a .22, I chickened out on shooting the 9mm. I figured start small lol

Saturday was the birthday party for two of my cousins (1 year old, and 3 years old), and after a day full of baby wrangling, I was just worn out! I’ve already told you about today… I need to run the vacuum yet, and take a shower, and then I’m calling it a day. I’m not quite ready to face another work week, but what can you do?

I’ve had a pretty good weekend… it was sorely needed. Even with the marathon laundry and cleaning session from yesterday, it’s been pretty relaxing. That’s always a good thing as I’ve discovered my body has an adverse reaction to stress. (Who doesn’t?) It’s usually in one of three forms. I’m searching for the best acne treatment (my shoulders this time), I unconsciously chew the inside of my cheeks (got reprimanded for this at my last dentist appointment), and I get a headache (been battling this one since Wednesday). (Was that enough parentheses for you?)

Anyways! I’ve had a good day today… I actually managed to sleep ALLLL the way until 7am, which is just unheard of in this household. Spent the morning playing on the internet and going through the paper. Then I decided to take myself to a movie. I’ve been wanting to go see Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, but don’t really know anyone too interested in seeing it. Rather than waiting for the DVD release as I’ve ended up doing in previous years, I decided to go ahead and go by myself! (Going to a movie alone also happens to be on my 101 Things in 1001 Days list.)

I did stop by the grocery store on the way home to get some things for this week, and that was decidedly NOT relaxing. But it needed to be done. I’ve spent the rest of the afternoon lazing around, playing on Facebook, and looking through cookbooks. I need to stop looking at the computer now though because my headache is most definitely coming back… if going to bed didn’t signal the end of the weekend, I’d definitely be thinking about it!

Man, I look tired in this picture! Feel tired too, for that matter! I’ll probably start thinking about heading for bed when this is posted, in fact. I can’t believe how quickly this weekend went by! Sarah and I hung out on Friday night. Saturday I spent the morning with Erica, and the evening up at the hospital with Dad and Gloria.

Today I got up and finally made the trip to the grocery store that I’ve been putting off for way, way too long. This week is one of my two “extra” paychecks of the year, so I took the opportunity to stock up on all the things I haven’t stocked up on since, well, my last extra paycheck probably! Two hours and $261 later, I am fully stocked again! You know it’s going to be bad when you hit $100 before you put anything edible in the cart… toilet paper, paper towels, cat supplies, trash bags, feminine hygiene products, dish soap, etc, etc you get the idea. Plus a whole bunch of fresh fruits and veggies!

The worst part is that I still had to come home and bring it all up a flight of stairs. I put the fridge/freezer stuff away and the rest of it is still in the middle of the kitchen floor. I need to rearrange the pantry before I can fit everything in there, so I decided to wait until later. When I’d recovered from hauling everything in, I showered and headed up to the hospital again. Now I’m back home, watching some TV and getting ready to go to bed and start a brand new week!

Me and the lovely Miss Madelyn, from yesterday. I tried to find a picture of me and Aiden when he was about the same age so you could see how much they look alike, but I can’t find it at the moment. I’ll add it later if I do find it.

Hope you’ve all had a lovely weekend thus far… I’m not ready for it to be this close to over! Today has been a pretty good balance of being a lazy bum, and being productive. I have spent WAY too much time playing on the computer and watching Harry Potter movies on ABC Family (it’s a disease… I watch them every time they are on TV, I can’t help it…) But I have also cleaned out the fridge and the freezer, taken out several bags of trash, as well as the recycling. I washed the dishes, and have been working on just general picking up as well. All very sorely needed things as I’ve been neglecting the whole cleaning the apartment thing for awhile. I don’t think cleaning off computer desktops counts as being productive, but I’ve done that too.

I need to find dinner, but cleaning out the fridge has made it painfully obvious that I don’t really have anything here to eat. I was thinking about ordering a pizza, but that’s expensive, plus I’d have to wait quite awhile before it got here. I’m looking a little too rough to go out in public and pick something up… rock, me, hard place… guess I better go figure SOMETHING out!