What a weekend. Again. This pace simply cannot keep up. Or should I say that I simply cannot keep up with this pace...
Friday- Took the day to work from home...hoping both to weather the stormy seas of the office a bit better from there and also to be home when Big got out of school to keep the afternoon calm before he left for drama club, particularly after his Wednesday night meltdown. Apparently missed more office drama, but got a lot done. Bought flowers for deck and had a late lunch at Simply Expensive with Linda. Mom and Dad came up for the play and helped me weed the pool garden. The play was cute...mostly. Audrey wass great!
Saturday- Early to breakfast at Ashley’s with everyone, then off to the Arts Center Tag Sale. Didn’t get too much and totally missed out on some very cool retro furniture for the deck for $30...purchased by someone who could afford anything she wanted. Damn the breakfast that took too long. Home to do deck plantings; delivered Big to afternoon performance and ate Subway with Little, the girls and Sheryl. Off to afternoon performance, then home to get girls ready for their dance recital. It was sooo cute and they truly could not have been any more excited. I got teary at one point, teary with anger than their dad couldn’t be there with us, but he was with us in spirit, as two uncles, 3 male cousins and a grandfather sat through a very long dance recital in memory of Jeremy. Out for ice cream afterwards and early to bed.
Sunday- You know you are doing too much when you lie in your bed and try to think of a way out of going to your nephew’s birthday party. But I went. Had a breakfast en route in Schroon Lake, and hit Target where we treated ourselves to some anniversary deck furniture (a piece of which we discovered was broken upon arriving home. Ugh!) The party was a very cute carnival theme, and the kids had a BLAST, even the big ones, despite the fact that I felt like crap after the carnival themed food of sausage and peppers, handcut french frieds and homemade fried bread dough. UGHHHHHHHH.
Monday- came back steeled to face it all head on.....and yet there was not much to face, just more games. It was an off sort of day for sure, and I had to keep reminding myself why it is that I work here (which of course is for more than just the $$$, but yesterday that was about as far as I could get.) Made a vow to myself, knowing that today would be harder for me mentally IN THE POURING RAIN WITH FIVE MORE DAYS OF RAIN FORECAST), that I am simply NOT going to let anyone get the best of me. I control my thoughts, and I control my reactions, and quite simply, that is how I am going to chose to be. In the end, I accomplished quite a bit of work, so that was nice, as well.
Baseball was of course dark and cold, but the kids played great with only 8 of their 10 players there and won. Came home to my delicious homemade marinara and Mama Fry’s homemade mancotti from my freezer and was happy to be putting real food on the table on a baseball night. :)
TODAY- It is dark, dark as night. That is always bad. I am a sunshine kind of girl. We are flying this ship solo today, unexpectedly, but that’s okay, too. I wish I had gotten up to run but you know the whole 3 day hair cycle and then the pony tail gets wet and snarly and it needs conditioner, and then we are off to the races with that whole scene. So, I slept another hour– can’t hurt, might help (though it won’t help the pants not fitting)– and will walk with Chris at lunch and run after work, rain or no rain, when I am closer to a hot shower.
It could be a retail therapy kind of a day– and if baseball is rained out– HOW COULD IT NOT BE???– I would like to make some headway in my personal Casa de Chaos. I always derive great satisfaction from organizational projects, and yet with this schedule lately, just haven’t had the time to do any!
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