Today's events

0700 - Wake up too early
0800 - Oh, crap. Gotta get ready in 10 minutes to take N to work. N laughing at me.
0810 - Drive N to work to save a bajillion dollars over the next two months
0845 - Breakfast
0900 - Start online stuff
0947 - Start to dread working out
1000 - Dread working out. Dang, just wasted 13 minutes.
1002 - Dread working out
1003 - Get ready to work out. Dread.
1005 - Force myself that all will be ok. Insane feelings of dread.
1006 - Leave to go work out.
1130 - Return from working out. Determine I still hate it.
1131 - Feel slightly better that I worked out, but know tomorrow I will dread/hate all over again. Dread/hate/dread/hate.
1147 - Still in gross workout clothes, watering plants.
1200 - Decide it is lunch time. Dang, just wasted 13 minutes?
1240 - Done with lunch, lounging on couch watching some stupid TV show
0100 - Remind myself not to get sucked into some stupid TV show and turn off TV.
0101 - Go from room to room picking up stuff.
0102 - Get sucked over to computer to write something random and dumb on Twitter. Read the news. Remind myself to keep reading news and useful things.
(0300 - Still on computer. haha, j/k.)
0200 - Back to picking things up. (gotta change the sheets today and prepare for laundry day tomorrow)
0500 - Wondering: where did my day go?
0600 - Pick up N from work to save a bajillion dollars over the next two months.
0630 - 1030 - Listen to cranky N demand dinner in 2 minutes. Calmly prepare supper ignoring Mr.Crankypants. Throw crackers his way to stave off his demands. Know N by now to know that he is just hungry. Wonder why men make insane/cranky demands instead of just calmly waiting for dinner. I eat sensible dinner. Check on N to make sure he balances his gross things with sensible vegetable things. N returns to normalcy. Almost adorable. Talk with N about my day. N tells me about his day. We discuss life and trip things. Let N show me funny things he finds on the internet. Remind him that I'm so much cooler than WoW. Lose attention of N to WoW. Start to wonder if I should learn to play WoW to vie for attention. Get attention of N. Try to convince him to go for bike ride. Lose attention of N. I play Wii, play on internet, watch TV, and/or do general putzing around. N pays attention to me randomly. Just getting into conversation or something super amazing on the internet when cranky N demands bedtime. Wonder why men make insane/cranky demands instead of just calmly waiting for my 2 minute bedtime routine. Calmly prepare for sleep. Vie for attention of N. Lose attention of N to his sleep. Feel all sappy in my heart over sleeping N.
1030 - 0700 - HAVE REALLY WEIRD MESSED UP DREAMS.
(last night it was snowing outside in May and I was playing floor hockey in my old high school gym.)

I will treasure these days always.

Retirement. Milling about in life.

Well there are a few goals that have been accomplished since my retirement

Wait, back up.

Yes, I am referring to this period in my life as a retirement of sorts....Until I return to work that is. See, I'm not really a housewife as I don't have children or a house. I also can't just go on in life listing "bum" as occupation. Sooo, retirement it is! My friend Landon from high school got a membership card from AARP when he was 14 and I always thought that was one of the funniest things ever. I also get to say that I retired the same time Brett Favre did. Yeah, I'd like to kick back after my dedicated career in the insurance biz. Ha.

OK so back to goals. Here is what I've done so far:
- was able to go to the hospital when Caleb was born
- spent quality time with family
- wrote cards & sent mail
- lots of laundry
- sheets, towels, etc all put away in a reorganized closet
- bed is made in the mornings
- worked out once a day except Sundays since March 1st (this one is huge people)
- reorganized kitchen
- made an honest candlelit relaxing dinner
(Menu: * tapas plate with olives, marinated mozzarella balls, tomatoes, pita, parsley. * chicken piccata. *fresh steamed vegetables *good white wine *real cadbury chocolate)
- cleaned living room top to bottom
- ironed bubs work shirts to save time for his morning
- got new glasses & contacts
- made personal trainer appt
- ordered pictures from my online website to start scrapbooking & framing
- kept jewelry in jewelry box (oh you wouldn't believe how challenging this is)
- kept shoes organized

Next up:
- more quality family time
- boxes of random crap in bedroom to go through
- planting
- getting bikes out & fixed
- try working out 2x day

So on to other random matters.

The first up is the issue of before-mentioned REAL Cadbury chocolate. Don't ye be fooled by trickery! Most of the "Cadbury" sold here in the USA is actually made by Hersheys. Contain your astonishment. There is a HUGE difference between Cadbury chocolate and Hersheys chocolate. When I find real Cadbury at a fairly reasonable "import chocolate" price, I buy. Bubs grew up on real chocolate and I have come to appreciate it. I don't know what kind of deal/naked picture bribery/whore scandal/trickery went on between Cadbury and Hershey to seal that deal but it disgusts me. pft.

The second up is the issue of my new glasses and contacts purchased today. I went to an express type place. Spent 2 express hours there. Waited 1 express hour while my glasses were being made. Went back and spent 1 more express hour there. I would like to express my extreme disappointment with that whole experience. With an expression of a middle finger..umm.. contained (Lent). Well, the actual exam with the good eye doc only lasted 10 weird minutes summarized as such:

Hi hi, what are you here for? **scribble scribble on paper** Ok look out there. Read 2 letters. Ok. Which is better: 1 or 2? **scribble scribble on paper** 1 or 2? 1 or 2? 1 or 2? 1 or 2? 1 or 2? **scribble scribble on paper** 1 or 2? 1 or 2? 1 or 2? **scribble scribble on paper** Well you have a slight **mumbles something** in your right eye but we're just going to ignore that. Ok - step outside and they'll set you up.

WHAT?!
What is in my right eye?!?! What are we ignoring?!?!? What are you scribbling?!? Did I answer 1 or 2 right?!?! What are they setting me up with?!?! Don't I have to do 50 other tests?!? Why didn't I get to read all the fun letters?!? Why didn't you change the paper chin thing?!? What chin disease am I going to get?!?

He was changing everything so quickly the 1 or 2 questions were really freaking me out. Sounds like a fun new prescription for me! whee!




Life has been pretty restful otherwise.

I'm glad and thankful I can attend church tomorrow and bake cookies to bring for our Easter weekend in Michigan.