In no particular order:
Anyone else want to share a few things they find mysterious?
Well, I've been helping a galpal with her resume and cover letter and I had forgotten just how much I love this kind of crap. It took much much longer than she wanted it to (she had my kids and Matthew was being just AWFUL), but I have to say that both items are now pretty darned sparkly. I love all the little idiotic nit-picky little details -- this line needs to be darker, this one needs to be higher up, less space here, more space there, one more syllable in this sentence. I am such a giant nerd!
Next I get to do my mommy's resume. I absolutely cannot wait!
In other news, it's the ever famous Latin Convention weekend, so I have been solo with the kids (well, with the exception of the really long time Kym had them this afternoon/evening) since Friday morning. I hope things are going well at convention.
I have a mega huge zit on my cheek -- I've been telling people it's a spider bite. Well, that's not exactly true. I decided I would tell anybody who seemed to be checking it out that it was a spider bite, but nobody really seemed to care much one way or the other. Except Kym, who said, "Omigod, that really IS huge!" but only after I had told her that I was planning to tell people it was a spider bite. (So of course I didn't get to tell her it was a spider bite because I had already told her it was a big zit and that I was gonna tell people the spider bite line so it would have been dumb at that point, not unlike this paragraph). It actually looks better today than yesterday. Yesterday it really DID look like a spider bite, but today it's starting to heal up. In the meantime, yuck.
I got all these movies to have an Emma-a-thon while Tim is gone, but I seem to have only checked out completely obscure movies. For example, Carrington, with Jonathan Pryce, which Tim loathes. It is kinda weird and creepy, but Emma is great. And I also got The Tall Guy, which we both love, and I haven't watched yet because it feels weird to watch it without Tim, and I got a movie I'd never even heard of called Judas Kiss, which also has Alan Rickman (yummy!) and Angels in America, and a little strange movie called Maybe Baby with Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson that has a hysterical five minutes of Emma preparing for her Sibyl Trelawney role being a mystical freaky weirdo.
I also checked out Strictly Ballroom, The Butterfly Effect, and some other stuff I can't remember now. I just thought you'd like to know.
This entry is definitely lame. But Meg got all over me for not having an entry after I'd told her she was not keeping up with my blog, so I figured I'd better post something...
I think the hardest part of being all freaked out was not knowing WHY I was freaking, or what had brought it on or when the feeling was going to go away. It was so irrational and while I was upset about the election, my level of "fallen to pieces that I can't seem to pick up" felt all out of proportion. And it was. I have since figured out what made me go "sproing" and as my sister the shrink will tell you (after she finishes smacking me for calling her a shrink -- I think she perfers "crazy doctor," since it covers more ground...) Anyway, as she will tell you, figuring out what's been making you crazy is half the battle to getting better.
I really don't want to talk about what the thing was -- it's personal and largely silly and basically okay now -- but just finally understanding why my brain felt shattered is such a relief! It makes sense, it's deal-with-able, and I am dealing. Finally.
So today was really the first day that I've felt almost all the way like my old self. Kym had to go support a friend though a funeral, so I was going to have her kids to play and eat lunch anyway and then Diana and Melanie agreed to change their plans so we could all hang out together instead of just them hanging at Di's place, and then (since it was already nuts and just 'cause he's really one of the girls now), we invited Bill and his gang to join us. We never did manage to get hold of Jodie in person to convince her to come with Jack and Amelia so we (only) had 9 kids and 4 grownups for lunch and we feasted on sausage pizza and cokes while we doled out juice boxes and cheese or black olive pizza to the kids. They ate a ridiculous amount, as always, and aside from whining a little when we cut off their juice supply and offered water instead, they were just amazingly good and polite and not even very messy.
Everybody mostly played nice and the need for smackdowns and apologies was minor. Di helped me wash the dishes (well, actually she washed and I dried and put away), Kym helped me tidy up and flip the futon mattress before everybody got there, and all the mamas helped find the playroom floor again at the end of the day.
It was a really really good day. Matthew was climbing everything, especially my last nerve, but otherwise I was pretty laid back and not even jittery inside, and that has been all too rare since November. My mood seems much more normal, my blood pressure is down to a more reasonable number and I bought a pillbox to help me remember if I've taken my meds or not. On the whole, things are (for the moment anyway) feeling better.
So, I just thought I would share.
I just realized that I never blogged about the concert, and since I gave CL my blog address while she was signing autographs, I really feel like I need to say here just how fabulous an evening it was!
If you don't know Christine Lavin already, it's time you did! I was introduced to her by Dr. Amy a really long time ago -- in what some guy once mistakenly told Christine Lavin was her "heyday" (like the 1991-92 years). Her website is amazing and you can find it HERE.
I just realized am too tired to go into all the details and do the show and the performance any kind of justice, but I really haven't laughed that much in a very very long time and I needed to laugh so badly!
I'll do details tomorrow or so. I think I gotta go to bed now. Nighters!
about what day it is anymore.
Today was a snowday -- and yippee say we all! Except that Saturday was a "Tim gone with the ITK team all day" so really, it's just like the Saturday got replaced in the middle of the week but now I am so confused about what day it actually IS that I have no idea what's going on in my life.
The kitchen reorganization and scrub-down is proceeding well though. I need to tidy up the food cupboard and the pantry and sort through the junk drawer and I'm done with all the storage space in there. The top of the fridge could also probably use a scrub, but it's hard to be on the step ladder with the kids awake and I am sure as hell not doing it tonight.
Sigh. This is the extent of the excitement in my life. Highly pitiful on the whole.