Variety Hour

It has been a very exasperating and frustrating day, most of which has happened in the last two hours. Daughter's dad couldn't pick her up at my house because his car wouldn't start. Daughter wanted to be at a school basketball game by 6:30pm, Husband needed to be at a Wake between 6-8pm, Middle child is at friend's house and I can't go anywhere until he comes home. Husband, like the Hero he is, volunteers to take Daughter up to her friend's house so they can ride to the game together, then he will head the hour and a half south for the Wake. Oh, did I mention it is lightly snowing here, so traffic is at a standstill. Oh, and I did I also mention that Daughter left a school folder here and I will have to run it up the her school before I go to work tomorrow???? She only lives about 20 minutes from here but it is in the complete opposite direction that I need to go. Plus, Daughter had a really bad day and spent most of the afternoon crying about it. Of course Husband is going to be the Hero, no one can stand to see her cry, especially him.

So in my many travels today (had to go to a Mammogram appt. 20 minutes from here, then another 15 minutes from there to pick up my W2 from the caterer, then 30 minutes to work) I saw a couple things that scared me. 1) An empty stroller and an adult shoe on the side of the highway. I actually slowed down to make sure there wasn't a car in the ditch. Nope, nothing to go with the stroller and the shoe. 2) A teenager driving what I assume was his toddler in a car without the toddler in a car seat. She was happily bouncing around the back seat. Ugh. 3) Getting a call from Youngest child's school Psychologist. My initial reaction was that he had taken his class hostage and was berating them with his jokes. Luckily it was just a call to warn me about the packet coming home I need to fill out.

Side note: When you have a child with any kind of disability, the amount of paperwork you fill out is infinite. I completely understand the need for the paperwork but when they ask questions like "When did child take first steps", jeez, he's 8. I am supposed to remember that?? And I also like how they ask yes or no questions that are totally NOT black and white "Did you child develop normally"....well, YES to some things and obviously NO to others or I wouldn't be doing all this paperwork!

But here were some of my favorite questions:
You were suppose to answer  'not true at all", thru  'very much true ' with a couple stops in between.

*Uses a weapon (a bat, brick, broken bottle, knife, gun). The thought of Youngest wielding a broken bottle made me laugh out loud. But yes, he uses pillows as a weapon, does that count??

*Avoids or dislikes things that take a lot of effort and are not fun.  Helloooo...don't most people do that on a daily basis?? Can I say TAXES???

*Steals secretly (shoplifting or forgery). Forgery? Really?? Better count my checks.

*Behaves like an angel. Come on, you can do better than that!

*Steals while confronting a person (mugging, purse snatching, armed robbery). Sigh.

*Is perfect in every way. Uhh...yes and no.....

I understand that unfortunately those questions are pertinent to kids out there and I feel for the parents that have to circle "Very much true". Though you will chuckle to know that I did grade him a "sometimes true" on the breaking into the neighbors house question. Youngest thinks that knocking is just the warning before he enters your house, whether you want him there or not. I know he has walked right into two of my neighbors houses, though I am not sure if they know it!! So neighbors, lock your doors.

Things that made me laugh today; my conversation with my co-worker about how Elton John's husband creeps me out, the Wheel of Injustice that is on our local news (it is literally a wheel of criminals they spin and then do a story on what ever one it lands on. But we do the big Monster Truck voices...WHHHEEEELLLL OOOOFFFFFFF INNNNJUUUUSSSTTIICE!!!!). The woman at Aldi with her triplet 5 year old's that were hysterically funny (because they weren't mine and I was shopping alone) and she just couldn't see the humor in their antics. I know how she felt so I kept laughing telling her how cute they were. She was ready to punch me as we were checking out. Ahh...good times.

This section of my blog is dedicated to my friends that I am calling the Weight Warriors! I have a group of a couple women, though men you can join us, too, that want to lose some weight and improve our fitness in the next 6 weeks. I was going to do a separate blog for them but decided to just keep it to all one blog. You are not required to post your weight, though you know I will. Posting it keeps me accountable. But you can share your fitness goals or any tips you have.

Here's where I am at: weighed in at 147.5 this morning, goal of 142 by Feb 29. At least 200 exercise minutes a week and weights 2-3 times a week. Log as much of my food as I can and stay away from fast food or fried food. This is hard for me at work sometimes: today we had tater tots. Come on, tater tots on a cold blustery day? One or two may have made their way into my mouth.. I also didn't do weights today because of all the stress and stuff going on, though I plan to pick them up for a quick workout when Youngest goes to bed. A little bit of exercise is better than no exercise.

As you can see, I had a heck of a day and am in for more tomorrow. I hope you guys had a great day and my thoughts are with my brother in law and his family.

Have a great night! Thanks for reading!!

Cat