January 8, 2009

• Dayzed & Confused

  I know that isn’t how you spell “dazed” but I was meaning to imply I am confused by the day of the week, again.

  Last night, Jesse came home, asked why the trash wasn’t collected from wastebaskets and I told him because it was Tuesday night.  So, for the second time in 7 days, he told me the day of the week – WEDNESDAY!!!!!  And, I woke up this morning thinking it was Friday . . .

  Definitely “dayzed and confused”!!!!!

  Nothing happened yesterday like it was supposed to.  I gave up late morning and spent the entire day reading back posts of someone who is relatively new to me.  It sure was more interesting than my totally out of control REAL life.  The girls are NOT listening, and school wasn’t even attempted.  I supposed this is a time of reeling them back into a routine that includes school. 

  We didn’t use the fireplace yesterday.  The morning and the evening were chilly, but we’re saving our wood for “cold” days and I hate to burn it on a chilly day when we can wrap up to stay warm.

  Wrapping up worked for Sampson.
  

  Sampson found his own way to stay warm.  On top of Luci’s bathrobe and Rissy’s blanket over him!
  

  Stormy found a patch of sun.  When she got up from the sun patch, she walked a few steps and keeled over.  I got her in the “death” pose.

  This is your basic “flat cat” . . .
  

  She rolled over to prove she was breathing and I was relieved!
  
  I GUESS she was breathing!

  Today we have a lot to do in school and then a grocery store trip.  The weather is supposed to be warm tomorrow, but drop drastically when the winds switch around to northerly winds.  I hadn’t planned to go today, but Luci has a definite cold/allergy problem and I woke up again with a swollen throat.  I think the bobbing up and down temps have caused us problems.

  Stephanie came over last night with JanaLyn.  The apartment’s gas line to the laundromat had a problem and they left her wet clothes in her laundry basket and a sign on the door saying, “Sorry.”  She figured it would be fixed the next day, but it wasn’t.  She had two baskets of wet clothes and came here to rewash and dry them.  They spent the night.

  There was an extra head in the den this morning – Stephanie’s.
  

  Yesterday morning, I made all of my phone calls – Child Welfare, Insurance Company (our roof claim), & a medical clinic for Jesse’s return appointment.  I left a message at each place and not one called me back.  My children don’t listen, calls aren’t returned . . . I’m wondering if I *AM* dead.  I can hear myself talking, but the pets don’t teven acknowledge me.  Maybe our resolve to talk more quietly this year has proven the reason WHY we don’t talk quietly.  No one can hear us unless we talk loud.  I suppose there *IS* a learning curve . . .

  Today we have ALL subjects which will be hard and unusual punishment for the children.  BUT, I feel I’m getting behind before I’ve even started!!!  I can cut out penmanship and move it to next week.  But, I’m definitely feeling pressure!  Housework didn’t get done either.  I just vegged yesterday.  If I had been on the floor, this is how I would have looked, but in human form
  
  Don’t you wish you could kick back like this with not a care in the world????!!!!  LOL
  

  This morning, I walked through the formal dining room and heard voices (yikes!  no one can hear me, but I can hear voices???!!!) and found THIS under the table.
  

  I was glad to find out the voices had bodies, but still . . . I hadn’t been awake that long and it was a bit spooky!!!
  

  Onward and upward I push.  I won’t even bother to post a To Do List, today, it’s meaningless.  I will do what I can do to be a little more caught up than I was yesterday.  That’s it.  No leaps of faith lists to burden my already burdened self!!!

  We had a pot of pinto beans seasoned with ham last night.  Didn’t even mess with cornbread.  I slow cooked it on the stove all day, so no energy was expended on dinner!!!  I have to think about dinner tonight and get something out of the freezer.

  The puppy Jesse is getting is a 5 1/2 week old blue healer/red healer mix.  I think she’s too young to be spayed, but the place is doing it, anyway.  Her tail isn’t docked and it is past the safe age for doing that, so I guess she’ll be a long tailed blue/red healer.  I don’t care.  We will NEVER enter a pet in a show – we have pets as pets – not to show.  Plus, that would mean one more place I have to be in my busy life!  This should be interesting!  Jesse has potty trained all of our children.  That’s an area I lack expertise.  I don’t know how things will go house training a puppy when Jesse is at work all day, most days!  At least our carpet is old and definitely needs to be replaced! 

  Full teaching schedule and then grocery store.  Sounds like a long enough day already and I haven’t even gotten started.

  So much for moving “onward and upward” – I feel pressured and would much prefer this position than the “ready, set, go!” position!

  

  Be blessed  ~

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