Meandering Maunderings

Or how I'm starting Monday- Slightly sunburned face and neck (from standing in the sun talking to a neighbor about her family woes...), sleep deprived as I just could NOT stay asleep last night, very itchy eczema rash on my left arm, and let's not forget the two small burns on my left hand from my discovery that the oven was indeed hot... Oh, and I woke up with a headache and cranky!



But I did have a good weekend. *grins* The talk with the neighbor was good- she mostly needed reassurance that it wasn't her that was crazy. She loves Kyle too, so when I'm with him and we see her we have to stop to say hi- Kyle insists. I didn't even realize that my face had gotten sunburned until this morning.

The burns on my hand are really minor, just in a weird place to bandage. See, I was making a french bread pizza (yay Stouffers!) and some of the sausage had fallen off. In my effort NOT to burn my fingers as I put the sausage back on, I ended up jerking my hand up and hitting the top of the oven. -Reminder- My name =/= Grace. Under cool water the hand went, and then iced. These burns aren't nearly as bad as the ones I got in jr. high while making rock candy... I was moving the ladle from the stove to put it in the sink- but it was dripping, and being me, and stupid, I decided it would be bad to let it drip on the floor. So I put my hand under it... I caught all five drips. :) Again with the hand under cold water until I got some ice for it. I think the people in my home ec lab were freaking out worse than me. My reaction being more of a 'huh, that's interesting.'

Oh, and hubby's car window was fixed Friday by the time I got home from work. Just in time for HIM to go to work. Poor guy. Hard to work 12 hours (especially as it's a go-go-go job) after not getting any sleep before hand. Now, however, I keep finding myself checking to make sure the windows are okay.

Let's see... what else. Oh yeah, we went to Cancun Mexican Grill for a late lunch. Just in time for the Gold Cup 09 match between the USA and Mexico. We only say the end of the first half, at which point it was still 0-0. (for the record, the US lost 5-0 or something) Both teams were playing well, though there was some vision questions regarding the Jamaican ref. *laughs*

Not much else in the news. Kyle and the cats are well. My mood is improving- and here's hoping I can sleep tonight! The icon = where I would like to be right now.


How's by you?

I find it interesting that at least three of my friends have posted this morning about rather weird dreams they had. For my part, I did NOT have a weird dream last night, mine was the night before. There were zombies, and lots of dead people. But it was okay because it was an action movie sort of thing and Jason Statham was my boyfriend. :) So it wasn't a bad dream by any stretch.


My weekend was pretty good. Saturday was the Rally of Writers, and I attended a couple of excellent workshops on writing/publishing. Though by the end of the day my brain was attempting to crawl out my ear. And my fingers hurt from all the notes I was taking. Notes I will probably type up to share with my writing peeps. :)


Yesterday was a total do nothing day. Oh, I don't think I mentioned here that a cold found me last week, I actually called off work on Thursday (had to go Friday). Thursday I was miserable. Friday was better- and I was very pleased as it meant that heading to AA to see jiffjenn, losgunna, and sarbah77 (As well as J who no longer uses her LJ). Much, much fun was had. And Zingerman's, and cupcakes. :) Was very good. Which meant I stayed late, and thus got very little sleep before the rally. Which was an all day affair. Thus it makes sense that any progress I had made in healing regressed, and I spent most of yesterday feeling pretty yucky. Still not 100%, but I'm at least closer than I was.

Oh, and the hubby told me last night that there was a winter snow advisory in effect. This I declared impossible. Which got me a confused look. I calmly explain that it's spring, so we can't have a winter snow advisory. So he snickered, gave me a kiss and said 'yes dear.' :) However, it IS possible to have a spring snow advisory, and snow we do have. Well, something masquerading rather successfully as snow.

Weekend- Thursday was dad's surgery, Friday was relaxing, Saturday and Sunday were stressful (for reasons I don't want to go into). However! The situation causing the Sat-Sun stress was quickly alleviated Monday morning. All is well. On that front. My work got a bit annoying (I was ALL caught up, and ahead in some areas and bossman tells me to be more productive? HOW?!)

I'm mostly over that. Last night was writing group. Was fun. Had an excellent conversation with thursday_kat about my NaNovel, which will help me with the re-write. Yay! Now to actually do this...

Also have come up with new words: Melodromantic/Melodromance. Meladrama + Romantic/Romance. See: Twilight. *laughs*



I'm feeling impatient...

Apparently there was some sort of sports thing over the weekend... The only reason I know this is because of the special sale e-mail I got from a couple different cross-stitch stores.

The weekend was very good. :) Husband and I are both finally feeling better from our colds. I got up early-ish on Saturday to run some errands. Oh, I walked Kyle Saturday morning, and when I got back to our building the handle to the front door came off in my hand! Called the office to report this (luckily the building has two doors). As of this morning we still don't have a front door knob, one of my fellow tenants took the remaining bits off and left the hole there for us to pull the door open with. So much for safety locks...

After the grumping from the door, and running errands I was a bit tired. So, napped on the couch, and hubby napped in his chair. Three hours later... we were both wondering what happened. *laughs* Apparently we needed the sleep. Lost most of yesterday to sleep too. This explains why I wasn't able to sleep well last night. Even after going to bed late.

I had one of those nights where I had dreams that didn't so much end as morph into something else. All three (that I remember) were vaguely connected, but again, weird. The last one was rudely interrupted by my alarm clock. Right when something interesting was going to happen! ARGH! This is much better than last week when I again had three dreams in a row- but the first and the last were very bad, and the middle was just weird. The first one had me as a teen, at my parent's house, except my whole situation was different. My mom (who I'm pretty sure was played by tru2myart) and I were trying to come up with a plan to escape her abusive boyfriend/husband (who wasn't my dad). We did come up with a good plan, and were on our way- my hand on the door to get out to the car- when I woke up. *sighs* So I had to spend a couple minutes finishing what was a really nasty dream, making it come to a satisfactory conclusion.

Dreamland hasn't been great lately, I think being sick has something to do with it. Dreams always get weird when I don't feel well.

Back at work today, wondering where the weekend went. Not really looking forward to being at work. But whatcanyado?

Oh yeah, have writing group tonight! That'll be good. Very much looking forward to seeing everyone.

Not much else to report. The animals are all, well, the same old same old. Leo is Destructo Cat, Kyle is Pathetic Dog, and Sasha is Cranky Queen of the House. Although on more than one occasion over the weekend I did catch Leo grooming Kyle's face- and he debated going into Kyle's crate to cuddle him. He did eventually decide against it, but it was clear that he had considered it.

The weekend started off a little strange. See, Hubby was supposed to work Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. However, as he had the same cold I did, and a fever, Thursday night he called in. Then Friday he got what they call an 'AA' (Administrative Absence) which essentially means the patient/nurse ratio was skewed in the wrong direction. So he got to stay home. Saturday night he did work, but then Sunday he was offered an AA, took it, and then five minutes later they called back and said that no, he needed to come in. Boo on them!

Anyway, I got up earlier than he did on Saturday- because he wasn't feeling well (migraine + cold = not fair). Then I discovered a Kyle accident... Cleaned that up and took the boy for a walk. This however inspired a day of mad cleaning. Hubby was given a free pass because he really was miserable. We got him ensconced on the couch and I cleaned around him. One of those pick up one thing, put it away, notice something there that needs to be moved, and one and on, while removing everything that I could- temporarily- from the living room... Which in this case actually made for an efficient method, strangely enough. After a dose or so of meds, and another nap- hubby was ready to help. :) At this point that meant moving the couch to the dining area (I had already moved most everything else out of the living room). And good Lord there was a TON of cat fur under the couch! (note to self- vacuum under the couch more often!) Got all that cleaned up, took a break for lunch, and I wandered around

Then the aminals were locked up so I could put 'Zorb' (Dyson brand carpet cleaner) down, hubby helped 'groom' it in to the carpet... We waited the requisite half hour and vacuumed it up. Carpet looks SO much better now! So much so that I just had to make sure the two 'easy' style chairs, and the couch, got thoroughly vacuumed, and washed the afghan we drape over the back of the couch, and the blanket on Sasha's chair, so they wouldn't feel left out. All in all, I lost track of just how many hours I spent cleaning... I'm pretty sure I emptied the vacuum canister 4 times- now, lest you think we're slobs, we keep up with general vacuuming pretty well, it's the 'moving the furniture, vacuuming EVERYTHING' type job we don't get too all that often. The place looks pretty good now. :)

Hubby had to go to work, and I spent most the evening trying to relax, but kept picking up things. *laughs* Did manage to get some of my Netflix DVDs watched, and played around on the computer. Then it was Sunday. Kyle did NOT have an accident, but I still got up relatively early with him to take him for a walk. After that, it was time for Teh Shopping Trip of DOOM!

I had to go to PetSmart, get gas, Meijer, (brief pause at McDonalds for a McChicken sammich) Target, and finally Kroger. Took longer at Kroger than I had expected, but a shorter time everywhere else. Spent much money, but finally restocked up on foodstuffs. We've just been kind of lazy about shopping recently. Brought it all home, and managed to get most of everything upstairs before the Energy-Enhance! mode started to wear off. Luckily, Hubby woke up and was able to help with the last bit. He had to go back to sleep though, and I puttered around some more.

I was just waking him up for work, when work called. He accepted the AA, I did a happy booty dance... *grins* We were just deciding where to go for dinner (Okay, yes, I had gone grocery shopping, but we prefer to get out meat stuffs somewhere other than Kroger or Meijer, and I didn't make it there) when work called back. I was disappointed. :( So he went off to work, and I walked Kyle- at this point I should note that my legs were *quite* upset with all the work I had them do the past couple days... (this is why I need to get into better, healthier shape!) The evening was spent stitching, web playing and tv watching. Oh, and a trip to L&L to get meat stuffs. :) One more Kyle walk, then it was bedtime. (Oh, Leo and I played 'Spot' too- Spot is the official name for the laser pointer game.)

That Energy-Enhance mode that hit Saturday was quite impressive. Mainly it seems to be that actually getting restful sleep at night is a big deal- who knew!? ;) Seriously though, since I've been able to use the CPAP (first few nights of my cold were impossible), I've been sleeping better- less restless behaviors, but I still wake up at least once-twice a night. That's always been the case for me though. This increase in energy? I'll take it! Though I may eventually run out of things to 'Autumn Clean.' *laughs*

Today has been somewhat lower key- I stayed up a bit too late trying to get things done. But I still feel pretty good. The cold is relenting in it's grasp, and the CPAP seems to be doing some good. Yay! Oh, and Mint + Dark Chocolate Three Musketeers' bars = GOOD! Nice treat to have every blue moon or so. :)

Now, it's off to lunch with the hubby!

Local writer types- Internets Cafe tomorrow evening?

Weekend was wonderful! Okay, so it rained the entire time, and hubby and I didn't go to the Ren Fest like we planned... We stayed in and just relaxed and vegged. I got some stitching in... oh

I found my scissors!!

Okay, this may not seem like a big deal- but for the last month I have been without my stitching scissors. They're wonderful, I tried to replace them- and the pair I got just doesn't work well (doesn't cut neatly, etc.). Those of you crafty types understand how important a good pair of scissors can be! But I found them!! So very, very happy about that.

Yesterday I even did some more decluttering. I have a TON of clothes to take somewhere to donate. And a much emptier closet. Kind of depressing, but good at the same time. Now I have to figure out where to take everything. Mostly because I don't want to try to write it all up. I just want it gone! *grins*

It was just kind of nice to not have to really go anywhere, and just chill. We needed that. Got lots of sleep too- which is why I couldn't sleep last night and am very tired today... Ah well. ;) The animals were even playing slug this weekend! Well, Kyle wasn't Saturday morning (wanted to go out three times before noon!), but he wasn't impressed with the rain. After the third walk I think he just gave up hoping it would be dry out and crashed in his crate/in front of the windows for a few hours.



Look, dragon eggs! And I managed to get one of the new eggs- at NOON!