A deadline looms…

… and Sheryl has begun the non-sleeping ritual.

I have a very important report that has to be at the State BY Friday. While I am well on my way to completing the request, I am still far enough away from it to just to the right of freaked.

I could have gone in this weekend, but I really didn’t see the benefit. Two weeks ago was by far the worse week I’ve had in a long time, at work. So I worked on Saturday, a week ago.

But this Saturday was different. I thought my time would be better spent hanging out with my family. It was quite cold for August, so we ended up inside for the most part, but that’s okay. I wanted to go in today refreshed and not grumbly because I had to work six days last week.

So while the next couple of days could be long, it will be over by Friday (for the most part). My hope of starting the week refreshed has been slightly hampered by dreaming of work all night. But at least the Bug slept all night and that is a huge bonus!!

I leave you with a Hooded Boy Wonder:

new routine

Our routine has been going through so many changes lately. When Kev started his new job he only worked for a week before a two week shut-down. At that point, his new schedule was more of a novelty. The first week we were both on vacation. But now we are several days into what will be our new routine. Kev leaves at 5:30 in the morning. Some times I get up then and sometimes I stay in bed until 5:45 or 6:00. I go down stairs and have a cup of coffee from our new coffee pot with a timer. Even tho’ I miss my broken espresso maker, I’m loving having coffee already made when I get up.

I try and get my hair and makeup done and make breakfast for Hunter and possibly a bagel for me. Usually around 6:30 I hear “Daaad” - I’m sure this will switch to “Moooom” shortly… but it was Dad all last week and old habits are hard to break - even if you are only two.

I go get Hunter and he comes downstairs to eat breakfast. I usually finish gathering stuff for lunches and wash up the few dishes. I do this before I get dressed so I don’t get my work outfit dirty.

After Hunter eats breakfast, I clean him up and get him dressed. At this point he usually watches the rest of Blue’s Clues (they took The Upside Down Show off the 7:00 slot) and run up and get dressed.

We are usually out of the house by 7:30.

{fast forward to the evening}

Kevin now picks up Hunter from daycare and I can come straight home from work. Kev has been making dinner. So when I get home there isn’t much to do but wait for dinner to finish up and talk about our respective days.

We always sit down as a family and eat.

The added bonus: Today I got off work by 5:15 and was home by about 5:30. I had the dishes done by 6:30ish {I do the dishes when he cooks and vice versa}. We all changed our clothes and actually got some family time in the pool.

I’m loving this new routine.

June in Review - part 1

June was a big month for me. There were a lot of milestones to celebrate and take note of.

June 5 – my nephew turned 18.
June 6 – my nephew graduated from high school
June 12 – my husband and celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary.
June 14 – my other nephew turned 5 and my only son turned 2.
June 15 – Father’s Day and my best friend’s birthday. I would tell you how old she turned, but the last time I did that, she didn’t talk to me for a week. Nevermind that I put it on her garage… I’m sure that had nothing to do with it. Hehe
June 20 – my loving husband turned 40.
June 23 – my Mom had a serious medical procedure.
June 30 – my summer vacation (finally) started.

So as you can see by the above list, June was pretty full. And this doesn’t include any work items, with the possible exception of June 30 and the start of my vacation.

I know by now you are thinking: “hey Sheryl, you shit, you haven’t shared pictures of any of these cool events with us, what’s up?”

Well you are right. But I spent the weekend uploading until my little heart was content. But there are waaaay too many pictures to dump on you in one setting. Therefore, I figured I would do a series called “June in Review” and share some pics with you in small doses.

Because there was so much going on, we celebrated my nephews 18th birthday on June 1st.
On the way to my brother’s Hunter was playing with his hat. My son is a clown.

Need more proof? Here is my son singing into a nut and bolt.

The birthday boy:

Sorry these pics are cropped or anything. I was lucky to just find the time to upload them.

My husband is an amazing Dad!

And finally… what no birthday should be without: ice cream and cake. Notice how there is NO ice cream anywhere but IN his belly.

Part 2 – coming soon.

It feels like a new life

Hubby started a new job this week and quit his old one; a decision we made together.

His old job? … was bad for his soul. Twelve years of mental anguish. He never brought it home, but I know he struggled during the day.

His new job? … Kev doing the happy dance inside. A new gig, full of opportunity.

Old job? … outside 365 days a year.

New job? … inside with air and heat.

Old job…various staring times ranging from 6:00 AM to 10:30 AM. Seriously, last week his start times were as follows:
Monday - 10:00 AM
Tuesday - 10:00 AM
Wednesday - 6:00 AM
Thursday - 11:30 AM <- oh and as an added bonus… work until 5 with no lunch.
Friday - 10:00 AM
Saturday - 7:00 AM

But he was not allowed to work over 39.5 hours. This was for every other week. The opposite weeks there work started an hour earlier, except Wed was still 6AM and there was no Saturday. It was great for most mornings, since he could take Hunter to daycare, but crappy for establishing a routine.

New job: M-F 6:00 AM to 2:30 PM, any time over 8 hours a day… OT. Plus 2 - 23 minute breaks and ½ hour for lunch.

While I have lost my morning help, I no longer have to wait until after 6:00 for my husband to get home. Often times it was 6:30 or 7.

I feel like I have gained an hour a day with my family.

What would you do Wednesday.

There are a busy couple of weeks coming up for the Crap-o-rama household: Father’s Day, Anniversary, three birthdays (including my husband, my son and my best friend). Plus, even on a good day, work is just busier than shit.  But we have some very important deadlines and not enough staff. 

Father’s Day and Hunter’s birthday will both be celebrated with a bar-b-que this year; one on Saturday and one on Sunday.  I know we should just celebrate them together, but that is a whole other issue. So the rest of this week is going to be busy and hectic and everything in between.

So here’s the dilemma:

Hunter’s Grandmother (my Mother-in-law) has offered to take him Friday night to spend the night.  Now normally I don’t have any issues with any of his Grandparents taking him overnight.  I would also welcome the little break and the chance to sleep in.  However, Saturday is my son’s, my only son’s 2^nd birthday.  If he stays with Grandma, he won’t be back until the afternoon.

I know it won’t make any difference to him… but I think it will to me.

What would you do?

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12 of 12 reminder!  I’m sure I will get my photos taken, but I can’t imagine when I will be them posted. 

Uggh!

Who increased the speed limit on my life??

Sound familiar?

Holy shit, does this sound familiar…

I clicked on this  link so fast it was almost comical.  I thought for sure the tag line would read: “Scott Radde Michigan,  caught duping women out of thousands of dollars”… but it didn’t.

Sure brought back a lot of memories though.

I bet that scum bag is still up to his old tricks.  I have long since let the domain name go and when I just tried to look it up to see if it was being used, I realized, I honestly don’t even remember what the exact domain name I used was.  Good sign, no?  Seriously, that feels like it was two lifetimes ago.

I guess sometimes I just don’t’ get what part of people’s brain grew that makes them like this.  Maybe a lobotomy should be preformed to find out.  All in favor?

{raising hand}

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Well, I have a late meeting tonight; it doesn’t even start until 6:30pm.  L No Bug-hug for me tonight.

I was going to write a post about that website that makes my son  cuss, but I got completely sidetracked by the above Yahoo article.  You can look for that tomorrow – I know Katye will be happy.

Bad-ass

My hubby and I were talking over dinner (taco salads) last night.  I was explaining this web-site I found that has a tutorial on Wordpress theme designing.  I said something like:

“Honey, this site is so bad-ass..”

“Bad-aaa” comes out of Hunter’s mouth immediately.

I cover my mouth and leave the room so I can laugh my ass off out of earshot.

I come back a minute or two later, pretty well composed.

We start talking again…

“Bad-aaa”

“Bad-aaa”

“Bad-aaa”

“French-fry, buddy?” Kevin pipes in

“ben-rye”

“No, buddy this is a chip.”

“chip”

“Yep, chips”

“Nice diversion, Honey” I say.

“Thanks”

Seriously, I really thought “shit”, “what the fuck”, “fuck-sticking around” or some other sorted sting of cuss words would be the first.  Certainly not “bad-ass”, but now that I think about it, I sure use it often.

I know it’s bad, but that was hilarious… or as Hunter says: hirarious.

One of those days.

Have you ever had one of those days where you were just having issues getting started?  I’m having one of those today.  It was confirmed by the fact that I spilled a LARGE glass of water onto my desk and basically straight into my “to be filed” box, which is now a “to be dryed” box.  Damn.

I need some motivation here…. and some paper towel, obviously.