Steph, I have a special broom like tub scrubber things on a pole, but I think a broom might work better

Sheryl, I am so sorry Mr S is being a pill.

Msbelle, I am ever in awe of your planning and stick to it ivness

I was able to find an instructional design model in my course that was basically- this is how Sophia's brain works, can we please have a plan for how the actual work is happening, so that is good. It is called iterative design.

I also had a dream that my mom gave me Petunia's sister as well, and she didn't just have extra toes, she had two feet on each leg! And I kept finding all these extra cats, but I couldn't find Petunia to cuddle. I felt terrible and had, like, five to ten cats!

I took #1 son out to dinner for his birthday last night. Just the two of us as his dad is out of town and his brother had to go to work super early this morning. He had to work on his birthday (!!! I am still so thrilled he is working !!!). Fortunately there is a really yummy sushi place right in the same complex and he gets an hour dinner break, 8-9 PM, which is late for me to eat, but light enough stuff. Anyway, he declared the salmon lovers platter the best he has ever consumed. We'll have his official dinner on Wednesday, which is lobster special night at one of the sports bars here. Boy does love his seafood.

Laura that sounds like a great birthday and I'm glad he's found a job that he likes and is sticking with.

As much as I feel like I need to get better job and as difficult as parts of working in retail are there are definitely aspects that make it more enjoyable than office work for me.

However I am plagued by my brain not realy turnning off and not sleeping well the past few nights leading up to last night where I barely slept. Forgot to take my medicine and then tried to go to work and realized I was really struggling to stay focused driving and so about half way to work called them and told them I can't come in .

This sucks because I have the next 2 days off and I'm sure it makes me look like I'm trying to get a 3 days off in a row. I'm not but I almost had an accident the same place I had one less than a month ago so I don't want to repeat that.

Happy birthday #1 son!

I'm at school till late (re: for 12 hours, my lords), hence missing my yoga practice. Just one more economics practice to survive and what do you know, apparently the department's kitchenette is closing around 6:00PM, so no access to free coffee. Animals.

I had a list of errands to run today, and I forgot it was (1) MLK Day and (2) Monday, which knocked the post office and the coffee shop off my list (post office because it's MLK Day, and coffee shop because they are inexplicably closed on Mondays).

Which is why I'm still sitting on the couch in my jammies and drinking coffee at 11:15.

I hope everyone has smooth days.

Laura I hope #1 son knows we are all cheering for him.

Just had house fixer guy out. 20k to fix the big things in my house, paint and put in new flooring. We think that will result in $13k more profit for me. Deciding now if that is worth it. I think the answer is yes since I will be gone for the majority of the work and that is more than 3 months of expenses covered should I need them.

Now waiting on lawn guy.

apparently the department's kitchenette is closing around 6:00PM, so no access to free coffee. Animals.

Noooo! Not right at all.

Which is why I'm still sitting on the couch in my jammies and drinking coffee at 11:15.

I'll bet Shir wishes she was on that couch with you.

msbelle, you are a real powerhouse. I often think I should contract you to run my life. I am nowhere near as organized and productive.

I'll bet Shir wishes she was on that couch with you.

That is a brilliant channeling of omnis there, Laura. I'm (slightly sadly) laughing here.

I'm glad I seem all productive and motivated to you all. All I see is stuff yet to do and wonder why I wait on other things until the last second.

Anyway, things will get done. At least some things. Yard guy is here now. My trainer helped me get the cargo thing on my car and she took all my booze and two bags of groceries. Demo on repair work starts tomorrow so I need to get all I can out of that room today.

Pat myself on the back and say go Laura to myself time. I had a miserable morning trying to create reports that were going to take me 2-3 months to complete when I need them in like a week. Was sitting at my desk in tears, overwhelmed and defeated, and ready to just tell DH I quit. Looked at the clock and decided since I'd already been working for 7 hours maybe a lunch break would be a good idea. Made myself a spinach salad and queued up the next episode of Twin Peaks, then had to respond to two more work issues before I could sit down and eat, which didn't help my despair at all. Ate, watched another really bizarre 40 minutes of archived television, and went back to it and researched and figured out how to save myself a bunch of time, and am now feeling fairly competent again.

tl/dr: I'm getting too old for this shit, or maybe not.