Footprints on the Moon

Wow, ignore the raccoon eyes please! Hopefully those black circles don’t look as bad as they feel. I promise I don’t need any specialty eye creams or anything, I just need sleep. Which I will be headed to do in about 15 minutes– just as soon as I blow dry my hair and watch the end of The Amazing Race.

Did you all enjoy your 4 day weekends? I know I did! And I only had a 3 day weekend. I had Thursday and Friday off, but I picked up a shift on Saturday. Honestly, other than that, I did a whole lot of nothing this weekend! Thursday was dinner with the family, Friday I washed the dishes and took a 3 hour nap, Saturday I worked first shift, and then today I washed my work uniforms and watched movies! I really wanted to take a nap, but resisted the urge so that I’d be able to sleep tonight.

Now to dry my hair so I can sleep! Just didn’t want to miss another Self Portrait Sunday since I’ve been pretty lax about those lately.

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?

Sunday again! They sure seem to come around fast, don’t they? Or maybe it’s just the weekends that speed by.

Friday night, my friend Amy and I went to Hacienda for dinner and margaritas. I may or may not have had an entire liter of Orange Creme Margaritas all by myself. I got home probably 8:30 or so, and crashed by 9:30.

I can’t really tell you what happened with Saturday… it was one of those days where I can’t really tell you what I did with myself other than have a real lazy day. I watched a bunch of things on the TiVo that had been recording all week, took a nap, that sort of thing.

Today I’m trying to be productive… who needs treadmills when you can go up and downstairs a hundred times working on the laundry? Plus the trips downstairs to take out the trash and the recycling. I was supposed to be going to Mom’s for lunch today but they’re all sickly over at her house, so I’m staying home. Except now I need to figure out my own lunch. Since grocery shopping was on the to-do list that I never got around to yesterday, that’s easier said than done! Maybe I need to call Papa Johns…

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!

Me, this morning when I was still trying to work up the motivation to go to the grocery store. I did eventually make it out there, so don’t worry, I’m not starving to death lol Not that that was ever a large concern, but I was on the verge of having to put together some very strange meals.

I can’t believe this weekend is almost over already! Though, I do believe I say that every weekend, but that is entirely beside the point. I spent this weekend cleaning, shopping, and otherwise trying to get ready for leaving later this week. I got several travel size items… everything from packs of qtips, and acne products, to soap and toothpaste. I think I’ve got everything I need at this point. I’ll be headed for Florida on Thursday… woohoo! I got out my suitcase and started putting a few things in it, so of course both the cats are uneasy. They know I’m leaving, so Pudge especially is being very needy.

Well, I’m sure there’s more I could say, but I really need to be getting to bed. Hopefully we’ll start the new work week on the right foot– it’s usually hard to get up Monday morning, running late, and stressful all morning. Let’s face it, that will probably never change, but look at me try anyways!

I didn’t quite get around to this yesterday, but I didn’t want to skip it again, so you get a Self Portrait Sunday Monday post from me this week. Taken from the webcam on my laptop just a few minutes ago. I wish I could tell you that I’ve been so quiet on this blog because I’ve been working hard putting together website directories or something equally important, but that would be a lie. It’s because I’m lazy LOL

My weekend was pretty busy. I headed straight to my Dad’s after work on Friday for dinner. Turned out they were going to be keeping Killian over night, so I had fun playing with him. I didn’t leave there until after 9pm, and even then he was trying to convince me to stay. I told him I needed to go home and go to sleep, so he told me to sleep on the couch. So cute! He’s finally added the Aunt to my name (most of the time, anyways) and it’s adorable. “Aunt Jenn-i-per!” He was saying “Boo!” to me, and then I’d pretend to be scared and he’d giggle like mad. It was so funny. Except he wasn’t saying boo, he was yelling “Ah-ah-ah-aaaaaah-BOOOOOO!” Kind of like he was sneezing, but scaring me at the end instead.

Saturday I spent the entire day cleaning… then I made a trip to the store to pick up a couple things and baked Cheesecake Brownies. They were soooo good! I took them over to my Grandma’s on Sunday afternoon. Where my mom had made Swiss Steak, mashed potatoes, corn, and my favorite salad. A wonderful home cooked meal and family, can’t beat that!!

I came home, washed my uniform tops, and then it was time to go to bed to start another work week!

Happy Sunday! I took this picture earlier this afternoon, just after I got home from the movies. I went to see the Time Traveler’s Wife. Very good movie, although not as good as the book, as is usually the case. Good in its own right, but I *adored* the book.

Other than that, my weekend has been a lot of cleaning and relaxing. Judging from a page full of status updates on Facebook, that’s what you all were doing a lot of too. Well, you guys were watching football, but I was watching reruns of Bones. And uh, just maybe, the Hannah Montana Movie. Anyways, I have a clean bathroom, down to the litterboxes, and a clean kitchen including the oven. Do you have any idea how hard it is to clean an oven when your arms are shorter than your oven is deep? I’ll be collapsing on top of my mattresses shortly and hoping to sleep in in the morning. Gotta take advantage of those 3 day weekends!

I don’t really have plans for my day tomorrow just yet. I had thought about taking myself off to the Museum of Science and Industry and the Harry Potter exhibit tomorrow, but I’m not too keen on the idea of going by myself. Plus I could better afford it AFTER payday than before. The exhibit only runs through the 27th though, so maybe this weekend? I’ll go by myself if I have to! I do need to go grocery shopping, and could stand to do a couple loads of laundry, so I imagine that’s what tomorrow will end up looking like. Maybe some baking if I remember to pick something and add those things to the grocery list.

Hope you all have a great Labor day. If you’re celebrating, be safe!

Not the most flattering picture ever, taken from the built-in webcam on my laptop a few minutes ago. The batteries for my regular camera were dying though!

As usual, this post signals the end of the weekend. And, as usual, I’m not quite ready for that! It’s been a pretty laid back weekend. I did a little bit of cooking (nothing new for Jenn Cooks, unfortunately), grocery shopping, cleaning, naps, etc. Sounds about like every other weekend I write about Friday I went to Walmart and spent a fortune buying everything except pond filters (but only because I don’t have a pond– if I did, I’d have bought those too!)

Saturday was the cleaning, napping and etc. Today I’ve been playing games online, watching LoTR: FoTR and TTT, and putting together my Christmas shopping list. You heard me. I may even be placing the first order when I get paid on Friday. We’ll see! As it is though, I at least know what I want to get for the majority of the people on my list. There are a few big question marks, as there always are, but hopefully I’ll fill in those blanks soon enough. I’ve got plenty of time!