I really need to get back into the swing of this!

1-28-09

I know, what a slacker! I say I am going to start a blog again, but then I don’t write yesterday? Sheesh!

Ok, in all fairness, it was hectic yesterday. I dealt with idiots on parade, so it kept me from my normal time frame of stuff. I can’t complain, though. I am happy to be busy at work since it means I am working. These times are so freaky. That family that was all killed yesterday because the parents lost their jobs. It is so sad. I assume he was a little crazy anyway, but I think that the strain of losing your job, your livelihood, is really starting to take its toll on folks.

Aside from my dealings with the dumb yesterday, it was a good day. I rode the exercise bike in the morning and have been this week. I am only doing about 15 minutes at first so I can ease back into the routine. I was a little annoyed that my 90210 was a repeat and the Mentalist was as well. But that was ok, since it gave me time to clear out the Tivo’s a bit. I think tomorrow I will start watching some movies. I have a handful I had recorded, so I might as well take advantage of the time.

The only real problem with my new schedule of events is that I am insanely tired. I get to bed between 9 and 10 and get up at 4, which really isn’t a lot of sleep. Plus, I wake up in the middle of the night the once or twice (on a good night) that Dax may get up. Poor kid is having some separation anxiety lately. Nothing worse than hearing him at 12:30 yelling, “Wait! Daddy!”

Poor Bobby had a helluva day yesterday. He bonked his noggin pretty good at my folk’s house. He stepped off the porch step wrong and smacked his head into the chair, which left quite the bump. Then, later, he was dinking around at the dinner table and managed to fall and bit his lip. Not cool. He had been protesting the dinner selection (chicken and bananas) so I ended up making him a sandwich because despite the lessons I was trying to teach him, I didn’t think the bruised little boy needed to go to bed hungry.

I have several lessons I need to start doing with the boys. Little things that I really have let go for too long. With Dax going through his nightly issues, I will probably wait since part of the problem is from Dax waking up Bobby. Bobby gets up, then, and comes and asks for some milk. I don’t have issue with this, except when he gets up like 4 times to get milk. Once again, I like that he drinks so much milk, but he will never learn to stay dry over night with that much fluid in his bladder. The good news is I heard him get up last night to pee, so this is a good sign. He is still kind of young for over night, but I may set up a prize system with that. Either way, I think cutting off nighttime fluids is a good way to do that.

I want to get Bobby a little MP3 player. He loves music and he likes certain songs. I am thinking if we set up his little player with songs he likes, and maybe even some he doesn’t know, he can start to listen to music on his own. So this is one of the presents for his birthday. The other is the Darth Vader costume we saw. He told me about it again, and even knew it had been at Toys R Us, so I think tonight we will venture out to pick that up. I want to get it before it sells out.

I loved listening to Bobby go on and on about his birthday plans. He tells me he wants a balloon cake, and then quickly corrected himself, “No! Not a balloon cake, it will fly away!” He has discussed Buzz Lightyear and Darth Vader and even an ice cream cake. I think that a Costco sheet cake, with several toys for cake toppers is the plan. I figure a Buzz, Darth, maybe even Blue and other friends will make an appearance on the cake. That way I cover my bases.

Dax is learning the phrase “I Love You” which is crazy cute. Bobby says it a lot, often followed up with, “You’re cute, mommy.” I know that between Bobby and I saying it that much, Dax will have it soon. I am impressed with Dax’s sentences. He sits on the potty, despite having no pee in him, and will then tell me, “I am trying again!” He also has become frustrated when he doesn’t know the names of random characters in shows. There could be a dog that has no name and he is insistent on knowing the dog’s name. “I dunno dog’s name!” I may need to get Dax a book of baby names so he has some names he can start dolling out to every one we come in contact with.

I an so sore! I boxed, I hula hoped, I did step class. I did a smidge of yoga to stretch out. I may need to do that at home since I can feel how stiff I am. I am hoping to start riding the bike for 10 to 15 minutes in the evening as well. It is just some more exercise in general. I am not trying anything specific, yet. Just getting my body used to all the activity.

Tonight we need to go to Target. Ken needs some sets for an upcoming b-day party. This is really my excuse to get the boys some more Buzz Lightyear socks. In the dollar section, there were some Pixar socks including Monsters Inc and the Incredibles. The Monsters Inc ones have green socks that have Mike, and a set that are pink with Sulley. So I combined them so Dax has one of each. Yes, they don’t match, and yes, he is wearing pink, but I can safely say no one would ever pick on Dax for liking pink socks. Either way, both love the Buzz sock especially, and they are rather large, so we can pick up 10 pair and they are set for a while. And for $10? Shoot, you can’t go wrong.

I am very excited since the lovely people in my department are taking me to lunch on Friday. And not just lunch, PF Changs!! It is a thank you for all of the help that I give them. I thought that was way cool. They so didn’t need to do that, but they said they appreciate all that I do for them, when I really don’t need to. But apparently I do need to since it gets me free lunch!

I am supposed to my reports this morning, but it seems that everything doesn’t want to match. Of course, this may be due to the change in our fiscal period. Dates on everything changed, so a lot of the variants for them may be off. I am a little bummed, since I was hoping to work on them today, but at this rate, unless we changed the network path for them and I just didn’t know, they will all need to be re run, which means I don’t get to do them until tomorrow.

This is not to say that I don’t have accounts I can’t work on. Shoot, I can run new reports that will let me kick some ass on these new accounts I got. So I think I will do that. I love a challenge, and I was essentially given one. I may as well step up, right?