Friday night

I can't sleep. Seems like almost every night I have trouble sleeping. Annalise wakes me up, but it's near impossible for me to lay down and fall asleep in s reasonable amount of time (less than 30 minutes in my opinion). It sucks.

Don't want to self-medicate, so I've been taking melatonin 3-5 days a week. Boo. And nights like tonight I think I missed the window" of sleepiness.

Tomorrow Tom will be at work, having has a baseball game, all of us have a birthday party to attend in the afternoon. But that's it for the day. Looking forward to some downtime!

Thursday Thoughts

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• Still trying to adjust to Tom's new schedule.  Not so fun only having 1 day off with him, and last week didn't even get that due to my picking up an extra shift at the hospital.
• Baseball season is in full swing now.  Practice and games 4 days a week.  The shitty part?  Games are scheduled every Monday and Saturday, which are both days Tom works.  So guess who misses the majority of the games?  And guess who has to wrangle the baby on her own so she doesn't really get to WATCH the games? Yeah.  Kinda sucky.
• Last night was our last Financial Peace University class.  It was the "Jesus Class"...Tom didn't attend, as we weren't told ahead of time that the nursery would be closed, so when we showed up, poor Annalise would have had to sit through the class.  Totally not going to happen.  She sits for like 3.5 seconds at a time.
• Going on the above--we now need to sit down and figure out the basics...most important to me is what is the earliest possible date that I could retire? Ha.
• I've been trying to find new recipes to try out.  Even though I'm cooking almost every night, it's the same things with slight variations.  Totally yummy and usually weight watcher friendly,  BUT kinda boring.
• The baby sitter starts watching another baby today.  I'm a little sad...Now Annalise is going to have to share her attention, but Annalise loves this other baby (for now ;-)) so I hope it's okay? Plus the big kids are exited to have the baby there before and after school.
• I have a list of things I want to create.  I'm going to try to do ONE a week.  Maybe on Sunday nights/Monday mornings I'll share what I did?
• I haven't been reading as much as I planned on.  Only 2 books so far this year.  So much for 1 per week.  I'm almost done with #3 and I already started #4.  Maybe I'll change my goal to 24 books for the year? That seems totally doable.
• I tried to reset my phone last night.  After finally getting the new pictures to transfer and DELETE from my phone, it updated and reset everything EXCEPT it didn't delete the other 2300 pictures.  It did delete all of my apps.  I can't manually delete that many pictures, then I have to look at them and ooooh and aaaahhh over them, and want to save them.  It never works.  Hopefully will have it fixed by tonight.
• That is all for today.  Not many deep thoughts at 8am, I'm TIRED.

Meal plan

I'm going to make a better effort to plan our meals for money and health reasons.

This week we will have:

Grilled Turkey tenderloin with zucchini and rice

White bean and turkey sausage soup

Either chicken dumpling soup or maybe chicken pizza (use up leftover BBQ chicken from tonight)

Chinese chicken salad

Wednesday night will probably be grilled cheese or quesadillas due to a hectic schedule.

Lunches for Tom will be leftovers, and my lunches will be any extra leftovers, or just a sandwich/whatever I throw together.

He eats out at least once a week for lunch, but I rarely do--I get to come home everyday :)

Hopefully this will work!

No motivation

I have so much to do, and no drive to do it. Frustrating :-/

I'm working my extra job this weekend, picking up a12 hour graveyard shift on Saturday night. The anticipation is killing me, because I really don't want to work :-( but it's worth it, so that's where I'll be spending alllllllll Saturday night.

Ouch

Took Percocet for a sore tooth. Helped me sleep at first (plus kicked the pains ass) but now I'm wide awake. Don't have to be up for 3 hours, and I'll be so goddamn tired when 630 rolls around. Boo.

Had a good weekend. Made lots of yummy food. Chicken fried rice and steak yaki soba on Friday night. Chicken apple salad on Saturday night. Thai chicken wraps for lunch Sunday, and then Thai chicken/peanut sauce yaki soba noodles for Sunday night dinner.

Never made banana bread as I planned . I'll have the nanny do it today!

Went to a park with new play ground equipment, all 3 kids had fun!

Have plans for an art project with Clara tonight. Will take pics if it turns out.

Ok trying to fall back to sleep now...

Friday iPhone dump

I'm being such a follower these days, but hey, if it motivates me to post.....

1.  She has curls!

2. She was tired of me taking her picture

3. Annalise getting ready for a walk in the Burley with dad

4. What happens during a long walk in the Burley

5. double rainbow on my way home from work. it ended at the pain clinic. LOL

6. Student led conference night for Clara

7. Amanda made bathtub paint for Annalise, she was perplexed

8. Trying out her new plastic lawn chair. It's a winner.

Thursday thoughts

Thursday Thoughts

• I'm always so excited it almost Friday, when Thursday rolls around. This week even more so, since I worked Sunday as well.

• I attend weight watchers on Thursdays. I'm totally having a gain this week. Not excited about it and I want to not go because of it :-/ but....I will go and hope for the best. Goddamn whipped vodka 3 nights this last week! ;)

• In order to stay motivated, I'm making a written list of things I want to accomplish. While pinterest is great for ideas, it doesn't help me prioritize what I'd like to do. So I have a "craft/DIY" list, a cooking list, and a sewing list. Oh, and a cleaning/organizing list. I like lists.

• Tom and I have been doing this financial class, Financial Peace University. I'll just put it out there--I attend church very occasionally, Tom does not. This is a church based program. Even so, it's been very helpful and motivating on the money front. I'd like to retire eventually, and I think we're getting on the right track. We only have 1 class left, and I'm going to kinda miss it...

• The kids spring break started today. Thanks to conferences and a furlough day, they don't go back until April 2nd. I've been trying to plan things for them to do, that Annalise can attend as well. It's kind of tricky, but luckily I have the best nanny in the world. She'll make it work :)

• My boss is going to do my review this weekend. I don't think I've been as much of a team player as I could have been. Errr should have been. Hoping for a huge raise. Haha. Who am I kidding...I'll be lucky to get 3%...

Ok back to work. Gotta keep up appearances.

 

Ps I'm trying to figure out how to link up to a blog, but am clueless. It's for www.ramblingsofasuburbanmom.com it doesn't help that I'm typing this via the blogger iPhone app...