Family Night!

It's the first Friday of the New Year and would you like to know where I was... hanging out at my parents house.

Yep, I'm a dork.  We all got together for tacos and just some together time.    It was nice... but I really really wish my mother and my husband would QUIT smoking.  I always feel like crud after being there and Sean's cough is always amped up.   It just makes me cranky and tired.

Sorry folks, that's all I have the mind for right now.

Less than motivated

Feeling a little less than motivated today... I woke up all full of fire. I made blueberry waffles for the kids and Sean gobbled his up.  Sammie just started crying "I don't want waffles."

Once I got the kids and Steve out the door-- which really, I made breakfast and their lunches but Steve was the one with the patience for Sammie this morning-- I knew I was going to need a boost today.  So I took some Emergan C because my nose had been running like a faucet for about 18 hours... which is gross!  I managed to find the energy to clean up the livingroom and do some laundry... but then pfffssshh... all the air went out my tires.

I really really wanted to just go back to bed... and maybe I should have... but instead I carried on with my day. 

I went to Bible Study and that was fun... we decided we didn't want to use the set we'd been using because it was frankly, screwy theology.   In fact, we're probably going to end up writing letters of complaint to the publisher.  Who knows though.

So in other exciting news in my "world"-- well it's best to just check these out:
--Change.org website
-- News Article from Utica (NY) Observer.

Hanging with the Jody...

Today was awesome... why?  Because I got to hang out with one of my besties... Nicole.  She's headed back to London tomorrow, so to get a few hours of her time, even if she's packing is just fine with me.  I love Nicole, because our quirks fit together phenomanally.  We both tell really long stories.  Seriously-- 1 hour to tell me about their potential housing plans when 30 seconds would have done.  And I'd like to point out that we frequently say things like "to make a long story longer..." when we're together.

It was just great to get to see her... and oddly, it was probably about as frequent when she lived 50 miles away.  LOL!

Thanks, Nicole for the great day!

Getting Nutty With It!

Yeah, I'm feeling nutty alright.  I launched a second blog yesterday that was inspired by my Facebook posts about how awesome I am.  Well, if you know me, you know there's a little, maybe A LOT, of tongue in cheek there.  I decided mid-way through last year to focus on what's right instead of what's wrong with my world. In doing so, I found a lot of motivation because I have a positive attitude.  Something I don't always have.

Sammie is enjoying being titled "Private Awesome," Sean is "Sargeant Awesome" and Steve has made it all the way to "Lt. Col. Awesome."  It is kinda fun... and it's much more fun to say "You are being less than 'awesome' right now," than "Would you shut the *!#% up and quit whining and just do what you're *(&^#@ to do!"  Seriously! 

Okay, so as far as day to day life goes here in Awesome-Landia... one of us is back to work, 2 of us go back to school tomorrow and the last remaining one of us gets to slowly regain her sanity and domestic territory back.  I'm really enjoying all our time together, but the computer noises from the kitchen (which is the safest way to allow Sean to play games ) are kinda driving me crazy.  As are the random shouts at imaginary characters.  Ho hum...

And the tree... I'm having a battle of the wills with myself... It's up because it should stay up until Epiphany... but right now... I'm also tired of Oreo tossing ornaments off the tree.  It may well be that I get fed up and take it down early.  I'll feel a bit like a failure for not managing to keep it up... but maybe I can convince my husband to let not put up the tree so early.  Again... it's domestic territory that I'd like to regain-- 4 ft of floor space in my great room.

Okay... well folks... that's all for today. 

New Year, New You

Well, uhm... looks like I forgot to update anything after February of last year. 

Hmmm... I think it's because life got crazy.  In sum... Sean's fine, no further seizures; Sammie is cute, nothing new there; Steve is AWESOME, and that's been the biggest change this year.  By focusing on what's right, what's wrong kinda seems small.

I'm going to try to update more on day to day stuff, but we'll see how it goes.

I'm trying to focus on being awesome and will be beginning a big push on improving my FB page for this effort.  And I'm attempting to start a blog for that.  We'll see how that goes as well.

So more tomorrow.