Can I slit my wrists with a cell phone?

So the other day I made a big mistake.

A friend sent me a link: Win a year’s supply of diapers!

Really, I know better. I swear I do. But I clicked. And I filled out. And now the phone calls and emails just won’t stop. Ugh! No, I don’t need a new car. No, I don’t want more life insurance. No, I don’t want to be entered in the “Win your dream contest”, “Cute Baby Contest” or “Stay in a Hilton” contests. I don’t need to know more about working from home, I don’t need to be enrolled in a book club or a cd club. Holy Jesus!

I may need to change my email address now. And maybe my phone number. And I might have a nervous breakdown.

I could be playing MarioKart

I left the house in such a rush this morning that I left my wedding rings at home. It’s weird not having them, even though when I’m home I never wear them. I can’t stand not having them in public.

The last few weeks have been a blur. The house stuff has been going well and we close in 15 days. I’m excited, but it still doesn’t really seem real. Once we close and start buying paint I think it will feel more real. But then I won’t have time to be excited, because the plan is that we’re supposed to close on the house at 10am. If all that goes according to plan, we will buy paint after that and go to the house and start taping off the baseboards etc. so we can paint over the weekend. I might have Christen do the things he wanted to do the same weekend, like replace the toilets, the bathroom lighting, the tract lighting in the kitchen, the living room fan and the thing that goes over the stove (what’s that thing called?) ... a range hood. As a matter of fact, now that I look at that list maybe we’ll paint the following weekend.

I’ve set my electric, pest control and lawn maintenance up and I thought I had set up my water until I got home and found the email that told me that the city doesn't take care of my water at that address and to contact county. So that's on tomorrow's list, along with cable and the moving van.

Spencer's doing well. He's sleeping beside me right now; he seems to take a short nap most days when he comes home from daycare. I'm not looking forward to changing his daycare even though I'm sure he'll be fine at the new one (Laura, he's coming to Orien's daycare). He loves the girls and they're crazy about him. I told them today that he was going to be leaving in July and they were sad. It has to be done though; I made the drive from work to the daycare and then past where we'll be living and it took an hour and a half. Blah!

Have you seen this browser called Flock? Christen downloaded it for me yesterday, but I haven't really messed with it. It keeps all your log-ins for all the social networking sites -- Twitter, Blogger, Facebook, You Tube ... really, everything except MySpace, which I can't figure out unless they have some sort of beef with MS. If it works the way I want it to, it'll be pretty neat.

Needed: windless hallways.

I needed tablecloth weights yesterday for my skirt. There's a bit of a wind tunnel effect in the outside hallway between the building and the parking garage at work, and I was on the phone with my mom when up! went my skirt. I was pinned against the wall trying to keep it down, and there was a maintenance guy sitting on the bench on the phone and it was all I could do not to flash him.

I failed.

Wonder if I'll get better service from the maintenance guys now? Or the security guys, since that hallway is on video surveillance ...

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The mortgage is moving forth now. I finally made a decision, and now I'm perfectly willing to hunt down all paperwork needed including reasons for settling a credit card debt 10 years ago. Geez! But that's fine, I'm the queen of writing stupid letters. That's what I do at work!!

Happy Mother's Day!

Thank you to all who texted, commented and emailed to say Happy Mother's Day. :) I'm terrible about writing back because, well, I am. But you all are wonderful.

My Mother's day was very nice. Christen made me breakfast in bed after I had already gotten up and fed Spencer ... but it was the thought that counted, of course. Spencer sat and watched the ever-cheesy 27 Dresses which while not the best movie in the world was certainly cute, and a nice brainless movie to watch this morning. We spent the majority of the day shopping for a kitchenette set and other various things that we'll want when we move into the new house but we instead spent about $30 at Old Time Pottery on a painting, a pretty platter and various cheap household items that will likely break on their first use. It was a nice day.

We got car side carryout of Carrabba's to have with the bottle of wine I got for mother's day. The bottle ... well, it was pretty good, especially as we kept drinking it. I haven't figured out why Christen had to kept emphasizing how expensive it was except because that's his way. It was very alcohol-y at the beginning (unappetizingly so), but after we finished eating I took a cookie with it and it was fantastic. We sat on the back porch and talked about wine and family and all of our trips while finishing the bottle of wine. I have to say it was fantastic by the time we finished it.

Now Christen is snoring beside me so I think I will try to get some sleep. We have the inspections on the new house tomorrow and I have to figure out my financing on the house. Blah. Only a month and 2 days until I own my own home!

Workin' through it

I’ve been meaning to write here, but it seems every time I think about it I'm doing something else and by the time I remember there's no time. Or by the time I open the screen I'm just not feeling it anymore. And once you get behind it's harder to even start again. Even now, technically I'm emailing this to myself from work so that I can get it down before life gets too busy, you know?

Anyhow, work has gotten better. I'm getting used to going to work every morning, and if I rush it in the am I can get to work early (7am) and get off even earlier (3:45pm) to spend time with my baby and my family. I missed working, to tell you the truth. I felt like I was only using my brain to count hours between feedings and to remember to pick up the dry cleaning. I only wish work wasn't quite so stressful. Does anybody have a local bookstore I can buy for like, a dollar and I can manage that?

Speaking of buying, we put an offer in on a house and yesterday it was accepted! So meet our new house: I'm sort of excited, although it really doesn't seem real to me so I haven't been able to get really excited yet. Also, there is a condition per the seller that we have to get pre-qualified through their lender to make sure that our financing isn't going to fall through. We don't have to go through them, they just want their Wells Fargo man to run our numbers to make sure we can afford the house.

So now I have to find a new daycare. I really love the daycare that he's at, so it sucks that we'll have to change, but it would more than double my drive to work in the mornings to continue taking him there. And I'm seriously no good at getting up in the mornings. Last week I was good about getting up in the 5:30am range, but this week I'm getting up just after 6, then I have to get myself and my son ready and leave by 6:25 (sometimes includes giving him a bottle). A 45- or 60-minute drive to work isn't happening. I drove down Memorial Hwy yesterday on my way home to see if there were any daycares on the way home to the new place (it's about a mile west of Memorial Hwy off Hillsborough), and there are a few but I think I'm going to have to check a bunch out next week when I have the inspections done on the place. I only saw one place that had a sign saying they were now enrolling, and I don't like only having one option. If I can't find a place right away, I'm going to have to keep him where he is until a spot opens up somewhere good.

Spencer's doing good. He had a bad cold last week and didn't sleep much (perfect timing, with me going back to work) but we got his mattress on an incline and started running a humidifier in his room and he's doing a lot better. Still the runny nose, but he sleeps better and seems a lot happier. I, on the other hand, got way sicker than him and I'm still very congested. We've been doing tummy time every night and he can scoot his body in a circle without lifting his belly. He only lasts a few minutes before he gets frustrated, but I'm really trying. He's always in such a good mood when I pick him up from daycare, so I've tried doing it right when we get home. He's still not going to bed until 10pm, but it's better than 11-12, like before. Slowly we may get him to a normal bedtime. :)

Anywho, so that's life as I know it right now. I'll try not to be a stranger, and don't you be either!

***update: daycare costs two to three as much near the new house! Spencer will be staying with his usual daycare for now. Even with the 20-30 minute longer commute, it's not as expensive as what those crazy people want to watch my son! We've worked it out so that Christen will take him to daycare and I'll pick him up. Holy cow! $215-272 a week!!!

****update numbero dos: They approved us with Wells Fargo, so we're good to go! Woohoo! I'm going to be a homeowner in less than 5 weeks!