So, through my blogging friends I've come across many NEW blogs to follow, and one of those happens to be "Heir to Blair," who I found through my AOII sister/ former roommate Ashley. Heir to Blair gave me this idea, of a Friday Brain Dump. What a great idea, especially after the week I've had....
1. 4,000 hours of payroll, over half a million $ in snow billing & close to $200,000 in bills paid for the branch for the week. This. Girl. Has. Never. Been so happy to go home.
1a. This girl had also never come so close to having her own episode on Lifetime's "Snapped." Seriously. ONE MORE person asked a stupid question, I got interrupted ONE MORE TIME, I got snipped at ONE MORE TIME - they were getting it. Throat slit off. Heads were literally going to fall off necks. Okay, maybe not that severe....
2. Super Bowl is in my home state next week. My 'Boys won't be there but I (of course) honestly can celebrate that the "home" team won't be there either. In fact, I'm obnoxiously rooting on the Patriots (I really REALLY don't want the Giants, who are in Dallas' division, to win another. Lucky asscheeks).
3. Speaking of football, Peyton Manning won't be a Colt next year, and I can almost guarantee he'll go somewhere in the AFC. I'm also getting this strange feeling that Dez Bryant won't be a Cowboy next year either which makes me sad b/c a) he's the 3rd #88 the team has had and has all the potential to live up to that number and b) I JUST got his jersey for my birthday.
4. Filed our taxes last night (earliest ever!) and we're getting back a really good amount of money for not having kids and/ or not making any money and/ or living completely off the government. I'm PRETTY stoked about it. This money means a couple things:
4a. Finally, NEW front room furniture! No more sofas, chairs & coffee tables that are older than I am (no offense, Ashley, I'm sure they were lovely in your parents' house when they brought you home and Lord knows we got our use out of them at both Bethel houses!)!
4b. HOPEFULLY a down payment on a new (to me) car. The old 'Bu has over 155,000 miles on it and Chris' truck has over 230,000. It's time
4c. Tucking some money away for a much needed vacation, just-us-two-since-we-haven't-been-away-together-on-our-own-since-our-honeymoon-3.5-years-ago. I think we're thinking Myrtle Beach the week/end of our anniversary (8/30). Labor Day (9/3) will make it all work out nicely.
5. I am OBSESSED with The Band Perry right now. I've listened to their CD-via-my-iPod every morning on repeat this week and I LOVE IT. Not really a bad song on the whole album.
6. I'm checking out a new gym tomorrow. I hope I like it b/c God knows I've got to get back into it. I feel fat and disgusting. I miss the YMCA in Muncie and living with friends that would drag me to the gym even when I didn't want to go. Even if we ate KFC afterwards. :)
7. Every single one of my favorite shows (that we DVR b/c we literally watch nothing live anymore) was a repeat this week. LAME. 2 Broke Girls, 2.5 Men, Mike & Molly, Last Man Standing, New Girl, Grey's Anatomy. Actually, I lied. Pan Am was new. Great show. But still. They ALL just had 125 weeks off for Christmas.
8. I had zero time for lunch today and the Pizza Hut I ordered (b/c God knows I am NOT cooking tonight) just got here. It's time to EAT.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
Sleep
I apologize in advance for this probably way-too personal/ too-many-details post.
This is ridiculous.
I slept for a grand total of maybe 4 hours Saturday night. Exhausted all day Sunday. Go to bed at a decent hour (9) last night and what am I doing?
Sitting up, awake, online, at 1:30, because what is becoming way too normal - I. CAN'T. F'ING. SLEEP.
Tonight I at least have an excuse. Not sure what is wrong but right after dinner, my stomach was really upset and is just now calming down. NOT TO MENTION that for the 5th month in a row, Mother Nature shows up today, in all her cramping, backache, general feel-like-crap glory. The last 4 months I've been calm and hopeful about it. Today I start while in the middle of grocery shopping at Meijer and make it through checking out before I have a meltdown in the car. Poor Chris. I'm so frustrated and I really thought that we did everything "right" this month. I quickly "got over it" (ie, didn't spend the day curled in a ball weeping in the dark), but I really am bummed. Why is this, something that seems to happen so easily for other people, so hard for US? I know you have to wait a year before seeing a doctor about it, but those ugly thoughts are starting to creep in my mind.......what if something is wrong? What if we can never have a baby?
Okay, okay, no. None of that.
But every night for the last MONTH I've had trouble getting to sleep. It's affecting everything. My stress levels at work are high enough without enough sleep, I really think that I may end up scaring everyone into never talking to me again at this rate. I eat like crap when I'm tired, I don't ever feel like exercising in any way shape or form when I'm tired.......
I'm tired of being TIRED. I'm tired of having to drug myself into an oblivion just to get to sleep anymore. The last couple of weeks I've tried really hard to not take anything; today I even bought a bottle of melatonin which is supposed to work wonders. Ha.
Sorry for whining. These nights are killing me. :(
This is ridiculous.
I slept for a grand total of maybe 4 hours Saturday night. Exhausted all day Sunday. Go to bed at a decent hour (9) last night and what am I doing?
Sitting up, awake, online, at 1:30, because what is becoming way too normal - I. CAN'T. F'ING. SLEEP.
Tonight I at least have an excuse. Not sure what is wrong but right after dinner, my stomach was really upset and is just now calming down. NOT TO MENTION that for the 5th month in a row, Mother Nature shows up today, in all her cramping, backache, general feel-like-crap glory. The last 4 months I've been calm and hopeful about it. Today I start while in the middle of grocery shopping at Meijer and make it through checking out before I have a meltdown in the car. Poor Chris. I'm so frustrated and I really thought that we did everything "right" this month. I quickly "got over it" (ie, didn't spend the day curled in a ball weeping in the dark), but I really am bummed. Why is this, something that seems to happen so easily for other people, so hard for US? I know you have to wait a year before seeing a doctor about it, but those ugly thoughts are starting to creep in my mind.......what if something is wrong? What if we can never have a baby?
Okay, okay, no. None of that.
But every night for the last MONTH I've had trouble getting to sleep. It's affecting everything. My stress levels at work are high enough without enough sleep, I really think that I may end up scaring everyone into never talking to me again at this rate. I eat like crap when I'm tired, I don't ever feel like exercising in any way shape or form when I'm tired.......
I'm tired of being TIRED. I'm tired of having to drug myself into an oblivion just to get to sleep anymore. The last couple of weeks I've tried really hard to not take anything; today I even bought a bottle of melatonin which is supposed to work wonders. Ha.
Sorry for whining. These nights are killing me. :(
Sunday, January 1, 2012
2012!
Another year in the books. Unbelievable.
We rang in 2012 last night with pajamas, wings from a local joint, a couple Redbox movies, homemade pina coladas and near the end of the night, a good dose of Nyquil. I've been fighting what I thought at first was strep, then a sinus infection, to what I now know is just a full on nasty cold. It was bad enough that I worked one measly day last week....fortunately we were already off on Monday 12/26, and we were off Friday 12/30, but I was only able to work Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday - there was no way. I think the worst is over but thankfully I have one more day to recover and get some things done around the house. This is where the best part of no Christmas decorations being put up comes into play - nothing to take down and clean up!
I checked out my "Happy 2011" post from last year, and just like my feelings this year, I made no "resolutions" last year, either....."Besides getting into a concrete schedule for the mini, the only other real goal I've made for myself is to cut out the gossip."
Well, I accomplished my one big goal for the year, which was to train for and complete my first mini-marathon in May. What a great feeling that was! Crossing that finish line, I felt like I could do anything. Well, anything that I could do from a horizontal position, with my legs elevated, for approximately 3 days. :) It was a fantastic feeling.
The gossip part is a little harder to pinpoint. I finally was able to transfer offices in the spring at work which helped. Us being cocooned over here in Columbus helped. I still think it's a worthwhile goal to work on, but this year I'm going to broaden it. Cut out the BS. At the age of 28 (holy crap, I'll be 30 *next* year!!!!), I still allow way too many little things to get to me. At work, at home, in my marriage, within my family, within our circles of friends. Enough. Cutting out the BS. That's my "goal" in 2012.
2011 is over. We celebrated our 3rd anniversary, and finally, I think, we are over the hump of the mistakes I made which left our marrage a minefield of hurt, distrust & anger. We started trying in earnest for a baby, and while no luck yet, I'm trying to relax about it and let God do His thing (me = control freak = hardest thing ever to give up control).
We watched the Packers win a Super Bowl in our beloved Cowboys' Stadium in February, but that was better than the Steelers winning. We anxiously awaited the end of the NFL lockout to then watch our Cowboys week in and week out, one heart attack after another, without fail (tonight may be the biggest heart attack yet; we'll see). We (okay, I) streamed the Royal Wedding back in April and let myself get completely wrapped up in the news and glitz and magic of the prince and his "commoner." I almost wrecked my car on an early May morning, listening to Mike & Mike, when they shared the commentary from a baseball game the night before when it was announced the US that "we got him." [Osama Bin Laden]. We watched the Cardinals (neither of us big baseball fans, but that's the team we both root for if we do watch) make a dramatic comeback and win the World Series in the 7th game.
We got caught up in the idea of building a house, then just buying a house, and settled just renting a house, but rest easy in our decision as we are finally out of apartments - and knowing what we need to do in the near future to be ready to actually buy (the biggest thing being: not chickening out!!) We welcomed a brother in law to the family in September. Before 2012 is over, we will probably be welcoming a new sister in law, a niece and two more nephews to the family as Chris' brother just brought up his girlfriend and her 3 kids from TX for good.
Who knows what else 2012 will bring? Our 10th HS Reunion will be this year - how is that possible???? Maybe a baby will come.......Chris will turn 28 in March, I'll turn 29 in November, and we'll celebrate 4 years of marriage in August. We have a couple of friends getting married, a couple of others already expecting babies in the early parts of the year. I truly hope in 2012 we can spend more time with friends & family......whether that be making a few more trips to IN, or arranging trips to meet halfway, or people coming to us.
Most of all - I wish us, and all of you out there - a most happy & peaceful New Year. May all year we all feel as optimistic as we all do today, as we look forward to a brand spankin' new 365 days. (No, wait - 366 this year!) Happy 2012!
We rang in 2012 last night with pajamas, wings from a local joint, a couple Redbox movies, homemade pina coladas and near the end of the night, a good dose of Nyquil. I've been fighting what I thought at first was strep, then a sinus infection, to what I now know is just a full on nasty cold. It was bad enough that I worked one measly day last week....fortunately we were already off on Monday 12/26, and we were off Friday 12/30, but I was only able to work Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday - there was no way. I think the worst is over but thankfully I have one more day to recover and get some things done around the house. This is where the best part of no Christmas decorations being put up comes into play - nothing to take down and clean up!
I checked out my "Happy 2011" post from last year, and just like my feelings this year, I made no "resolutions" last year, either....."Besides getting into a concrete schedule for the mini, the only other real goal I've made for myself is to cut out the gossip."
Well, I accomplished my one big goal for the year, which was to train for and complete my first mini-marathon in May. What a great feeling that was! Crossing that finish line, I felt like I could do anything. Well, anything that I could do from a horizontal position, with my legs elevated, for approximately 3 days. :) It was a fantastic feeling.
The gossip part is a little harder to pinpoint. I finally was able to transfer offices in the spring at work which helped. Us being cocooned over here in Columbus helped. I still think it's a worthwhile goal to work on, but this year I'm going to broaden it. Cut out the BS. At the age of 28 (holy crap, I'll be 30 *next* year!!!!), I still allow way too many little things to get to me. At work, at home, in my marriage, within my family, within our circles of friends. Enough. Cutting out the BS. That's my "goal" in 2012.
2011 is over. We celebrated our 3rd anniversary, and finally, I think, we are over the hump of the mistakes I made which left our marrage a minefield of hurt, distrust & anger. We started trying in earnest for a baby, and while no luck yet, I'm trying to relax about it and let God do His thing (me = control freak = hardest thing ever to give up control).
We watched the Packers win a Super Bowl in our beloved Cowboys' Stadium in February, but that was better than the Steelers winning. We anxiously awaited the end of the NFL lockout to then watch our Cowboys week in and week out, one heart attack after another, without fail (tonight may be the biggest heart attack yet; we'll see). We (okay, I) streamed the Royal Wedding back in April and let myself get completely wrapped up in the news and glitz and magic of the prince and his "commoner." I almost wrecked my car on an early May morning, listening to Mike & Mike, when they shared the commentary from a baseball game the night before when it was announced the US that "we got him." [Osama Bin Laden]. We watched the Cardinals (neither of us big baseball fans, but that's the team we both root for if we do watch) make a dramatic comeback and win the World Series in the 7th game.
We got caught up in the idea of building a house, then just buying a house, and settled just renting a house, but rest easy in our decision as we are finally out of apartments - and knowing what we need to do in the near future to be ready to actually buy (the biggest thing being: not chickening out!!) We welcomed a brother in law to the family in September. Before 2012 is over, we will probably be welcoming a new sister in law, a niece and two more nephews to the family as Chris' brother just brought up his girlfriend and her 3 kids from TX for good.
Who knows what else 2012 will bring? Our 10th HS Reunion will be this year - how is that possible???? Maybe a baby will come.......Chris will turn 28 in March, I'll turn 29 in November, and we'll celebrate 4 years of marriage in August. We have a couple of friends getting married, a couple of others already expecting babies in the early parts of the year. I truly hope in 2012 we can spend more time with friends & family......whether that be making a few more trips to IN, or arranging trips to meet halfway, or people coming to us.
Most of all - I wish us, and all of you out there - a most happy & peaceful New Year. May all year we all feel as optimistic as we all do today, as we look forward to a brand spankin' new 365 days. (No, wait - 366 this year!) Happy 2012!
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