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10 & MPM…

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There are frozen foods to that, meals to plan, laundry to get caught up on and birthday gifts to buy! So much to do this week that my head is spinning and growing dizzy from it all! (and nope, the dizziness likely has nothing to do with the fact that both of my ears are plugged due to allergies and so my equal librium may be compromised!)

In other news, we did not win the Idaho Powerball amount. So sad. We had such honorable plans for the money too. Normally we don’t play, but when it’s over 200 Million, we sort of feel required to. Ya know? Like, it’s our civic duty…
Oh well…
Today’s list is, in honor of being great big Lottery losers- What we’d do if we won…
1) Buy a sensible, but cute, house.
2) Buy my mom a small house and move her here.
3) Pay off Chris’s parents house.
4) Pay off my car and give it away, give Chw’s car away and buy him a small truck and me an xterra.
5) go on a nice, stress free vacation.
My husband the work-a-holic wants to keep his job (he announces, because you know this is never going to happen so let’s be totally practical about it! LOL) I said I wanted the majority of the rest of it to be divided between investments and a series of accounts… An acct. for Genny; an account with X amount automatically deposited for us, monthly; and that sort of account for my mom. Her health isn’t good and she wouldn’t have to work again. We would probably, at some point, adopt another child.
You know, because it’s never going to happen- but it doesn’t hurt to dream!
Back in the early stages of our marriage, we spent hours planning out our lottery winnings (which we didn’t play because we were dirt poor)… Those were some of the best times from those years. Funny how dreaming is such a beautiful thing. So hopeful and Whimsical…

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Monday– Pork Chops with Sage Sauce, Williams Sonoma Cheddar Chive potatoes and steamed Broccoli

Tuesday– Pioneer Woman’s chicken Spaghetti, salad

Wednesday– Homemade Chicken Pot Pie

Thursday– Shredded Beef Enchilada’s & Spanish Salad

Friday– Morning Star Farms Grillers, homemade mac & Cheese, steamed peas

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It’s 5:30 in the morning, and I finally put my book down and turned off my sconce at 1. Suffice it to say: not a good sleep night. I struggled and tossed and turned. Partly due to allergies, and partly due to things on my mind…

We went to a birthday party last night. It was the first kid’s birthday Costume party I’ve ever been to. What fun! Genny had a blast and came away a happy girl. While there we met a wonderful fellow mom who gives music lessons. She is willing to sell, barter, etc. Somehow- during the conversation- Genny decided she is going to learn to play the flute, guitar and piano and that that she will be cleaning this woman’s house in trade.
Who am I to argue with sacrifice and ambition? :)

Instead of boring you with an entire post on the heavy burdens impairing my sleep, I will attempt the “two birds/one blog post” thing and use ’em as today’s list. Don’t forget my March give-away! 6 days left!!!

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– My little “sister” has met her birth father- or will today. She is the girl who, still at 28, desperately aches for parents to parent her. She is the no boundary girl who continually places her hopes and dreams upon the shoulders of one person… I hate to see her crushed yet again.
– My hubby and I have been sharing one car for a week now as the brakes went out in his. What happened though, was Michigan left it’s generous mark on his car and the entire wheel assembly was rusted out and a mess. (Thanks, Michigan!) Unfortunately, he’d already pulled the brakes and stuff off so it falls on him to repair the heap on jacks, in our garage.
– I have had an ongoing Migraine for a week. I know it’s allergy stuff but it is complicating my life something fierce.
– I have this beautiful person in my life whom I love with my entire heart and being. I am seeing her heart be broken, and it’s truly a long break that’s been occurring for years. As time moves on, it’s no longer appropriate for me to jump in and fix things (or attempt to) and the reality of the entire situation is a really painful one for my heart.
– Gen’s party is in a couple of weeks and I always worry about how those things turn out. At least this year’s is easy going.
– My husband’s family. I don’t know how to help him not be hurt by them… I can point out truths, and he sees them, but he still gets hurt and it brakes my heart. I know he thought living her permanently would make things different, but it doesn’t.
– Huge zit coming in. Hurts. A lot. I am not much of a zit-getter so I am entitled to be a huge baby about this. :)
– My dog ate a hockey puck from our air hockey table. A) I am worried about her system. B) We are ticked at her because she also chewed up the triangle thing from the pool table. GRRRR!!!!!!!
– And lastly- When we moved in to this house, we knew that there were several sex offenders living a half a mile from our house. together. With Chw still mostly being in Michigan, at that time, I rationalized a reason for their living arrangement with something that would still allow me to sleep at night. Well, Oddly enough, Chw works with their next door neighbor and now we know the truth. Halfway house, of non-reformed perpetrators. These people aren’t rehabilitated…
So, last night we come home from the costume party with this masked guy air boxing in the middle of the street. Chw pointed out later that he was likely exercising- which is probably the truth- but it made me realize how “on edge” I am about all of this.
Education is awareness and I’d rather know they are there than not know… And at least I don’t live next door- like the people with two small daughters do- but still…

That’s my current list of worries… Have a great Saturday, ya’ll! I’ll be back listing tomorrow.

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Things got a little better yesterday, but for us it was just a Monday- all around…

I’m working on getting the giveaway up here. It’s pretty cool, I’m excited!
In leu of the excitement NOT happening here this morning, I am focussing on the things I need to get done and decided- in an effort at practicality- to make that today’s list:
– Do March Calendar details with Genny.
– Begin our study on Women’s History (Since it is Women’s History Month)
– Bake turn overs for my father in law.
– Art with Gen.
– Clean my living room & Vacuum.
– Answer email and catch up on Google Reader.
– Make lunch.
– Clean off the cookbooks (from meal planning) stacked on my kitchen table.
– Empty the dishwasher.
– Fold Laundry throughout the day (With Gen’s help as my wrist is a mess)
– Watch a short movie with Gen for “Down time”.
– Put laundry away.
– Straighten the chaos that was once the office/classroom.
– Call my sister (That’s an easy 2 hours, right though.)
– Clean my bedroom/bathroom.
– Make dinner for family & In-laws coming over.
– Long hot bath, reading and bed by 10…

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NaBloPoMo’s March challenge is a month of posts about lists. Being that I am incredibly anal and obsessively organized- the idea of blogging an entire month of lists sounds heavenly… But doing such a joyous act every day in the month that I celebrate my birthday is like some amazingly gracious gift from the Internet Gods…

Before day one’s exciting list commences- however- I want to remind you again that it is a new month…
That means a new give away!!!
I am ironing the details out and by mid next week I will have them up…
And now for the list…
Things I Can’t Get Enough of:
– Sarah Jessica Parker’s Bitten Line at Steve & Barrys.
– C.O. Bigelow’s Lemon line at Bath & Body Works.
– Starbuck’s Shaken Iced Green Tea
– Fabric.com
– Nexxus Curl Enhancing mousse
– Puffs Plus Vicks
– A Fin Frenzy (band)
– our local Chinese Restaurant

For the record…

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– self discipline at bed time sucks worst of all… or rather yet, I suck at it...
– i LOVE the movie Juno.
– I also loved Charlie Wilson’s War.
– I think puffs tissue with Vicks enfused in to it is seriously an ingenious invention!
– sometimes cereal for dinner is a good thing.
– puppies are uncool.
– i am thoroughly addicted to shooting rabbits. (on the Wii that is, with Rayman’s Raving Rabbids 2)
– I miss The Office.
– I had a great chat with my mom tonight.
– I have to be up in 4 hours and it’s a jam packed/stress filled day.
– our local market had hand picked forget-me-nots for sale. Where on earth did they get them? (of course i bought them! they are lovely.)
– in the event that my divorce from DPM is going well, I decided to celebrate my soda-liberation with a strawberry italian soda (homemade)…
It exploded everywhere. Literally.
– My husband, Mr. “I hate to travel” with the middle name “I hate the ocean!” is spending the weekend with his co-worker/buddy at a family’s home in California. It’s a coastal home…
It’s cold here…
I want a coastal getaway…

Oh well. Bekah is watching Garden State in the living room. I love that movie SOOOO much and the music is contributing to my happiness. It’s those late nights before a stressful morning when I contemplate calling DPM. Just to see how he is… See if he wants to come hang out… (Oh Diet Pepsi Max, I do miss you a little. But I am trying to be strong!)