Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween!

Hope everyone had a spook-tacular night...

The munchkin ready to do a little trick-or-treating in the neighborhood tonight! Lots of candy was had...

A little trick or treating @ work on Friday...

Went a little overboard

But, it really only seems to happen a few times a year. I'm talking about shopping... I'm not a big shopper and I'm not someone who picks up a piece here and there. I don't know why...but I just am not that kind of girl. For the most part, I don't even really like shopping. Yes, I know...that is a sin!

Since I only go a couple times a year I buy a lot when I do go. But then I enter this zone in my head that not everyone understands...my theory becomes, the more I spend, the more I save. Well, yesterday when cashing in on my B-day coupons I entered that zone and this is how it worked out:

Catherine's

Purchased: 4 sweaters, 4 tops & 1 suit-type jacket

Original Costs: $460

Actual Costs: $247.19

Savings: $225.39

Avenue

Purchased: 8 pair of pants, including 5 pairs of jeans, 2 pairs of shoes, & 5 pairs of panties

Original Costs: $323.08

Actual Costs: $220.92

Savings: $80.77 + $33.90 back for returning these

Salon

Massage Price: $120

Actual Costs: $90

Savings: $30

Additional Costs~~Mani: $35; Pedi: $68; Significantly Stocking up on my products that aren't always available when I need them: $172

So I don't look at the fact that I spent a total of $833.11 in a matter of 6 hours. I look at it the fact that I saved $370.06 and didn't spend $1,178.08! Looking at those numbers I now remember why I only shop a couple times a year!

Accomplished so far: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 22, 23, 24

My Friday To-Do List:

1. Leave work early

2. Go shopping @ Catherine's to use my B-day coupon

3. Go shopping @ Avenue to use my B-day coupon

4. Use my B-day coupon and get my massage

5. Treat myself to a mani & pedi

6. Take the munchkin nite-lite (glow in the dark) putt-putt golfing

7. Write out my shopping list

8. Go shopping

9. Do laundry

10. Mail in my rebate for my crackberry

11. Do all of my Pre-Trial homework

12. Do all of my Litigation homework

13. Do all of my PR homework

14. Pick up the house

15. Take the munchkin trick-or-treating

16. Make eye appointment for the munchkin

17. Request my pharmacy fax my specialist a request to increase the number of test strips my insurance will pay for

18. Write out the munchkin's soccer & school pictures so I can give/send them out to family and friends

19. Get my pics developed

20. Get my aunt's pics developed

21. Get my oil changed

22. Send out an evite for dinner with friends for two weeks from tonight

23. Follow up on email about next term's semester

24. Go thru emails

25. Get organized

26. Plan out my week

27. Write my man

28. Write my h.s. friend

29. Get some sleep

30. Refocus myself for this coming week

31. Get my shit together

Time to respond but not tonight

My major Motion for Summary Judgment was due tonight at 6pm. I called it done at 5:15pm, scanned it, emailed it to "opposing counsel" and Prof. Wine and walked to my car at 5:40pm to make it to class for 6pm and hand in a hard copy. Sunday I spent over 10 hours researching, Tuesday I spent several hours reading my research and then several hours gathering useful information to put in my brief. I went to bed around 3am Tuesday night. I began "writing" the brief Wednesday night after class and crawled into bed around 3:30am last night. I then began working on it again this morning around 11am and called it "finished" when I had to this evening.

I sent a BBM to MyMormonGirl telling her how horrible of a piece of crap I turned in today and how I was so upset with myself. Apparently I got lost between page one and page ten.

I do have a chance to redeem myself and I will! This weekend I have to write a response to my opposing counsel's MSJ in the other case we have in PreTrial Lit. After turning in that piece of shit today, all I can do is go up from here! :)

But since the last two nights I've gotten an average of three hours of sleep each night, I will not even start to think about writing my response brief tonight. Instead I will think about the fact that I must get up early tomorrow to prep for my scheduled pampering tomorrow afternoon before I head in to work for 4 hours. Then I am off to shop using my birthday coupons before they expire Saturday, and then go for my birthday massage, my mani & my pedi!

I hope you all have a wonderful Friday too! TGIF (this works since it is just minutes past midnight)!!

Better than expected

Today was my weekly weigh-in @ WWs. I kind of expected to gain, because I had a bad week. I was just starving all week and all I wanted to do was eat. And of course, I didn't want to eat carrots either! I didn't lose control, but I didn't stay on plan either. So I was already ready to face the music for today and then yesterday when mother nature finally knocked, 7 weeks late, I was totally resigned to he fact that today was not going to be good. So boy oh boy was I surprised when my leader said, "Well, you are getting better news than you hoped for!" I had lost 0.5lbs!! It isn't much but for the situation I found myself today, I will take it and run!

My grand total now is 31.5lbs! Not every week can rock as much as last week, but it did help me refocus today, so that is a positive.

Calling it a night

Since I was up last night until 6am this morning working on homework and got up at noon today and have been working on homework ever since; it is now after 10pm, so I'm calling it a night! I didn't even take a break to take a shower. Nasty!! I do not have my motion wrote, but I have a lot of cases printed out that likely have nothing to do with anything I need. I'll try and read those tomorrow so I can write my motion before it is due on Thursday @ 6pm!

Have a great week y'all!!

Not happy with myself

This weekend I have a lot of homework, including writing a major motion and brief for Pre-Trial. Both the minimum and maximum is 10 pages for the brief portion of the motion, so when I didn't wake up this morning until my (other) ex-sil called to talk about yesterday's court appearance at 12:42pm I was not happy with myself. And of course I woke up with a blinding headache and stuffy nose (thanks allergies!), so I popped about 5 pills (allergy pill & motrin), hopped in the shower and went and picked up some food so I could get started on some homework. I tried to accomplish as much as I could so far today...

Accomplished: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 16, 19, 20(picking up scripts)

Left to do tomorrow: 5, 6, 9, 13, 14, 15, 17, & 18

Why do I even plan things?

It seems like every time I plan my day out it doesn't go accordingly. Why is that? This isn't just a once and a while thing or just a "homework" thing, but something that happens a lot and also happens at work too. It just seems like I put time into making a plan, but when I set out to execute it I fail or it fails. Something fails! Ugh. My LSBFF tells me I should probably stop planning out my days at work because this is such an issue...

Since I had a gut feeling that the trial would be over by noon I had this big plan of what all I would accomplish from my to do list, but that didn't happen. Maybe I need to add to my list "work on focusing on plans" or something like that.

I was able to check off a few things today, but not nearly as many as I hoped.

Accomplished: 1, 4, & 10. I also wrote out unexpected bills received today, so I guess that is #19 accomplished too. I had hoped to add 3, 5, 7, 8 & 11 to this...guess there is always tomorrow for me to become much more productive!

One good thing that came as a result of picking up my lab test results was to discovery how great my numbers are looking! On 6/20/09 my A1C was 7.1 (normal range is 4.8-6.0) and as of last Saturday my A1C was 5.9!! On 8/1/09 my creatinine results were 255.5, 529 & 2,070, but last Saturday's results were 105.9, 37.9 & 358!! Yay me!!

The Truth Can Force One Into A Good Decision Sometimes

Let me recap my day thus far for you all... Mom was suppose to call to make sure I was up at 5:30am. Finally, at 6:15am I realized no call was coming so I needed to drag my own ass out of bed! I hop in the shower, get ready, realizing yet again I will be late, but this time I'm okay with being late, because there really is no need to leave an hour and a half before your scheduled court time when you are only 15 mins (max) from the courthouse. I make a call to Mom to make sure she didn't oversleep and after a quick confirmation that she just simply forgot about me (this isn't the first time in my life Mom has done this; however, this time was not nearly as traumatic as the first time!) I hang up and realize that my mom is beyond her breaking point already before 6:45am.

Aunt arrives, I finish getting ready and am out the door by 7:25am. I have yet to figure out why I used to be able to get up, get ready and get out the door in less than an hour and these days it just doesn't happen. Am I just old and moving slower?! I pulled up to Mom's, get out in the pouring rain, run in and she starts apologizing that she didn't hear me pull-up. I'm not sure how she expected to hear me pull up when the wind is blowing like crazy and the rain is coming down in sheets! She tries to usher me out the door, because we are running late. I demand one swallow of water to take my AM half of a pill and then we are out the door. I literally look at my Dad and say, "Hi. Bye."

We arrive to Biggby's after I've made apologies for running late and the fact that I want to go to Biggby's because I know I can get my DDHC and it is sugar and fat free versus my mom's normal McDonald's run for her coffee where nothing comes out as sugar or fat free. All is forgiven, I run in get her coffee and my DDHC, along with a plain bagel and cream cheese to insure my blood sugar doesn't drop too low during court proceedings. Why is it at a coffee house when you tell the barista that you just want a coffee with cream they look at you like you are retarded? I'm sorry, I don't drink the nasty stuff and I know my mom's version of coffee is whatever is on sale, Maxwell House v. Folgers. Back in the car and off to the courthouse we go.

We sit in the car while cigarettes are finished and then brave the nasty-ass weather to go in after we see the foster parents enter. We go upstairs and wait as the crowd starts to gather. There is an impressive lot of us there once everyone arrives. The sad thing is, this isn't my first go around with this same type of situation, and I'm always amazed at how many professionals are available after things go badly, but never before. Roll call: 2 prosecuting students & their professor; current CPS worker; former CPS worker just "observing"; foster parents; two doctors~the treating psychologist who could have been mistaken for a criminal (long hair, sloppy dress, creepy-dude look) & the ER doc that treated the boys they were removed from their mom's home who needs to seriously be checked for Type II diabetes; a very serious narcotics Detective (I was afraid his face may crack if he even thought about smiling); the boys' attorney who relieved some of my fears of passing the bar; the foster care worker from FIA; the current CASA woman appointed by the judge to monitor the case and to interact with the boys and mom throughout the last year; the former CASA woman; the Parenting Coach assigned to give mom classes on how to be a better mom; Paternal Grandma (my mom); me; ex-sil; Defense Counsel; and new friend of ex-sil's who called herself 'like a sister' of ex-sil. I'm still confused by the fact that with all of the "assigned personnel" that this situation could go so badly since 6 of these professionals were involved after the first incident Fall of 2008 through the second incident on February 6th, 2009 to present. Who missed what? Is my ex-sil that smart? She barely passed her GED classes...and she has never been nominated for a Golden Globe, but somehow she fooled them all.

The Judge takes the bench...preliminary motions are made...orders entered...scheduling conflicts advised of...Prosecutor's Opening Statement is made. In less than 3 minutes, the Opening Statement is over, Defense Counsel has reserved his right to give an opening statement and a recess is taken so Defense Counsel can appear in another courtroom at 9am. I exit the courtroom and call mom who was ushered in to the hallway due to her status as a witness but is no where to be found. As I stand in the hall waiting for her to answer her cell phone the ex-sil walks by me. She gives me a dirty look like I have betrayed her. Seriously? Seriously?! I make a flippant sound of "Hmph." (It sounds better than I'm expressing here...think 'Hmm...I got voice mail...interesting.") I meet mom downstairs and we take cover under a neighboring building while I give her the lowdown of the exhibits entered thus far and why we are in a recess already, plus the fact that the Judge has to take a recess from 11:15am-2pm!

We watch ex-sil exit the courthouse with her pseudo-sister and stand in the rain to smoke their cigarettes. We then enter the courthouse and head back upstairs. What Defense Counsel thought may only take 5 mins, but the judge said would take 30 mins really only took 15 so he begins frantically looking for his client. Apparently there was some fear that she was so upset that she may just leave...yeah, that would have been very fun and would have made for a great paper for my Small Firms class (yes, another class 4 years in where I have to go and observe court and yes, yet again I will use family court appearances as my subject matter!). I tell him that his client is outside smoking. He looks shocked that me, the evil mystery woman, would give him such information. (He would be even more shocked if he recalled that he cross-examined me years ago for an unrelated matter and tried to call me a liar on the stand and I responded with something like, Mr. Defense Attorney maybe you know more than my Judge, but I'm going by what he told me at the last court hearing,which was that unless I have a signed copy of the final order in my hand not to consider myself legally divorced and if I was to get remarried I would be committing bigamy which he would be sure to have me prosecuted for, so I'm sorry in answer to your question I am your client's legal wife. I know you don't like the answer, but I'm just telling you the truth.")**Yes, I am very mouthy when I enter a courthouse!! LOL

I enter the courtroom and wait and wait and wait. Someone finally comes in and tells someone in a loud whisper, sorry...we all hear what you are saying when we are in such a small room, that the respondent is considering signing off her rights. Finally a decision is made and for the fist time in a long time, my ex-sil makes the smartest decision and chooses to stop the trial and sign off her rights to her two boys. We spend the next hour watching people scramble to get paperwork together and get this back in front of the Judge to enter this matter on the record and get an order entered before the Judge leaves for his 11:15am recess.

By noon mom and I are sitting at Red Lobster, drinking our Sunset Passion Pina Coladas and eating our Lobster Fondue after she called the necessary people to tell them it was over and then recaps how she told the CPS worker that she thinks the fact that I was there and when ex-sil walked past me combined with the fact that mom was sequestered as a witness made her realize that her battleship had been sunk and that is why she finally made the choice she made. I, of course, then nicknamed myself "The Enforcer". Who knew I had so much power?! Well, okay...I always have, but it is nice that others are finally realizing it too!

Everything is over and done with... We wait 21 days to ensure no appeals are filed, which there won't be, and then the adoption procedures will begin for the foster family to finally make my nephews a legal part of their family. Only one time did my mom break down today, but I think later tonight will be a different story. She was fully vested in this matter and had made it one of her top priorities for what happened today, to happen one way or another.

I walked in the house at 1:30pm today with the intent to immediately start on my list, but by 2pm the emotional strain of the day was pounding in my head, so I opted to lay down a bit. My man called at 3pm to see how things went today and for the last 2 hours I've been trying to catch up on a few things, waiting for the munchkin to get home so I can give him a huge hug and kiss and go and grab dinner before he leaves with my aunt for the weekend.

Keep Your Fingers Crossed Please!

Tomorrow is the day. It has all came down to this. At 8:30am my ex-s-i-l's trial starts. I don't think it will be a long trial. It is a bench trial and I have a gut feeling we will be done by lunch. I'm hoping that the best situation for the boys is what happens. I will go to bed saying a little prayer to my Nana & Papa to take care of their great-grandbabies!! Please keep your fingers crossed. I'll update everyone when I can! Hopefully with smiles and tears of happiness not sadness.

I know I've been pretty quiet this week on here. I will fill you in more in the coming days about that...needless to say, it hasn't been a great week.

How could I leave this off...

My Friday To-Do List:

1. Write out my shopping list

2. Go shopping

3. Do laundry

4. Pick up my lab test results

5. Main in my rebate for my crackberry

6. Do all of my Pre-Trial homework

7. Do all of my Small Firms homework

8. Do all of my Litigation homework

9. Do all of my PR homework

10. Pick up the house

11. Clean out the backend of my car!!

12. Get organized

13. Plan out my week

14. Write my man

15. Write my h.s. friend

16. Get some sleep

17. Refocus myself for the week

18. Get my shit together!!

Well, since my mom is totally freaked out about tomorrow and she has me picking her up an hour before the courthouse even opens meaning I need be to her house at 7am and I need to get up by 5:30am and it is technically 1:14am I'm off to get some shut-eye!

Have a great Friday y'all!

I broke my 3 day old pumpkin already.

Friday night the munchkin, the aunt & I went and picked out two pumpkins and then went on to dinner. Apparently I thought pumpkins were much tougher than they really are, because I broke mine in the back end of my ride. I still have all of the crap in my backend that was pictured here. Plus when I went to Meijers a few weeks back I found the best deal ever on 6-packs of 20oz pop...buy 2, get 3 free!! How could I go wrong with that? Other than the fact that in our limited space at home I have no where to put them, so I've been carrying them around in my backend with all of my other stuff. (My LSBFF said that they would be okay, but I bet she didn't see what was coming next!)

So Friday night in the subzero weather I loaded two big pumpkins in it too and I've been carrying those around with me ever since...well, until Monday morning when I went to put my numerous bags in back there. There was no room for my book bag, my work bag (containing several books for school, because I hold out hope everyday that our power will go out and I can do some of my PR reading), and my lunch bag. So I decided to haul the pumpkins out at 7:30am before I headed off to work.

Munchkin's pumpkin was a success! Out with no problem. Mine on the other hand...when I pulled it towards me I realize it has been broken and where the 20oz pop bottle that was up against it the pumpkin is now growing around the pop bottle! YUCK!!! So I carefully decided to haul the pumpkin out and then throw a jacket I had back there around the now nasty, pumpkin, mold infested pop bottles and load my bags in. I didn't have time to clean out the back end.

Of course all of this lead to a pumpkin smell once my car heated up on my way to work and then a discussion with my aunt after I got home from school about the fact that she thought my pumpkin needed to go out in Wednesday's trash and my defense that our house should be able to clean it up and a stand of how I'm not throwing out an almost perfectly half good mold infested pumpkin and wasting all the money I spent on it...you know, that $7!

Of course I later told her how that morning I throw out a sausage biscuit I bought on my way to work, because I wanted a large glass of ice water in a Sweet Tea cup and had to order something to get it free! Apparently I'm okay with throwing out a $1.06 perfectly delicious sausage biscuit but not a $7 nasty-ass pumpkin. Am I the only one that follows my logic?! (Yes, I really wanted the sausage biscuit, but I wanted this more!)

I did what?!?

Lost 6lbs this week...that is what!!!

WW total (since I didn't start until 9/28/09): 8lbs
My personal total on this whole long ass journey: 31lbs

Yay me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

I need more hours in my weekend

I swear...I must be a slow mover or something is wrong with me! I cannot seem to get it all done! Ugh...

So, I thought I had these things accomplished: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 15, & 16. However, two BBM from MyMormonGirl I realized that I am not done with 6 & 9...ugh! Plus I still need to empty the dryer, fold 2 loads and our hodge-podge end of the weekend load needs to be washed, dryed, folded & put away! So now that I reflect on it, I really still have to do 3, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 & 17!!

I wish there were 3 days to every weekend instead of my measly 2...Now on to bed for another Monday...

Happy Sweetest Day!

I actually sort of forgot that today was Sweetest Day! And apparently my guy and I aren't celebrating since I didn't get a call today! LOL Usually I'm pretty good at remembering such insignificant things and getting cards out, but that didn't happen this year...opps!

So instead, I spent my Sweetest Day my attempting to get up early to get moving early and failed at that. I set the alarm for 6am, but didn't get up until 7:30am. Quick shower, threw my stuff together and out the door I went. My plan was to get #5 on my list done first, but instead I ran and picked up my DDHC and made my way to my hair salon to get my hair "did". Two and a half hours later I rushed to one of the outreach labs to get my tests done. Then I swung thru TB and picked up a couple of tacos and came home. After eating I still had a headache and since I didn't sleep worth crap last night I laid down for a little nap around 3pm. I had the alarm set for 4pm, but that didn't work out! I woke up when my mom called at 7:30pm! Is sleeping 4.5 hours really a nap?! LOL

I chatted with my mom for about 90 mins. She is super stressed since the trial for my nephews is less than a week away. Then at 9pm I couldn't seem to get motivated to do my homework or anything else. I was watching 'Bama win their homecoming game and decided I needed to do something productive for the day, so I got my reusable shopping bags and my cans and bottles together and off I went to grocery shop @ 10pm! It is actually nice to shop this late. Less people, better parking...what more could you ask for?

Items accomplished: 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, & 15.

Items yet to be accomplished: 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16 & 17.

The list remains uneven.

Hope you had a wonderful Sweetest Day!

Notice anything missing?

My Friday To-Do List:

1. Write out my shopping list

2. Go grocery shopping

3. Do laundry

4. Get my hair "did"

5. Get my blood & urine work done for my follow up appointment in a week and a half.

6. Do all of my Litigation homework

7. Do all of my Small Firms homework

8. Do all of my PR homework

9. Do all of my Pre-Trial homework

10. Pick up the house

11. Get organized (I'm feeling pretty unorganized this week!)

12. Plan out my week

13. Write my man

14. Write my friend from high school as she wrote last

15. As always, get me some serious sleep! (I think I really need it!)

16. Figure out what I'm doing about this.

17. Get my shit together!

Lack of Desire

Today was not a great day... I overslept, I had no desire to go to work and seriously considered calling in, but I did not. While I was there, the entire time I thought about leaving early, so instead I lacked the motivation to do a lot of work. Then on to school where I didn't really want to be, but thank goodness we got out early due to the computer malfunction in not allowing Prof Wine's posting and he canceled two of our deps. Yay! Then on to home where I ate dinner, still within my points, and since then I've felt icky. :( Now I'm watching Grey's (thank God for TIVO!) and then off to bed for me. I'm so happy that tomorrow is Friday that it is almost scary!!

BTW, for those who are following my dilemma, I bought myself some extra time (till Monday), so please give me your opinion and advice. I could really use it. For those who already sent me their opinions via other means...THANK YOU! I really, really appreciate it.

Urgent Dilemma~~Seeking Advice!!

When I first started back to law school it was with a 5 year plan because I began the extended evening program. I was fine with that and figured my anticipated graduation date of 5/2011. When I refigured my schedule for the last two semesters I discovered I could graduate in 12/2010 a whole semester early. I still wasn't sure if that was what I wanted, but now I've came to terms with that and am happy.

Tonight one of the guys I started classes with way back when told me that another classmate of ours has spearheaded a movement. Let me back up a minute...we apparently have one graduation ceremony every May. (I always thought we had one in December, but we don't...who knew!) And normally the people who graduate the December before, that May and the following July walk in that May's ceremony. So, May 2010 the graduates that are scheduled to walk are December 2009, May 2010 & July 2010 graduates...okay, back to tonight! My classmate has spearheaded a movement to allow December 2010 graduates walk in the May 2010 ceremony.

So...now I need to decide...do I walk in May 2010 and return to school for classes this summer and Fall and leave school in December 2010 to take the February Bar? Or do I finish classes in December 2010, take the Bar in February and walk in May 2011? Any advice??

Of course, I have to make this decision by tomorrow!! WTF?

Living in the 80's

Today was a positive day. I kicked ass at work. I ate within my points. I declined a piece of cake at work for someone's 35 year anniversary with the company (yesterday and today I also was able to stay clear of the donuts and apple cider sitting 10 feet away from me in the lunch room and let me tell...I love me some apple cider and can do damage all by myself to a gallon). I made it to the gym and did 20 mins on the treadmill, 45 mins on the upper body machines, and another 15 mins on the treadmill. And on top of all of that, with the exception of my first blood glucose this morning, which came in at 132, the remainder were in the 80's! (81 after breakfast, 86 after lunch, & 89 after dinner!) I became a little concerned that my meter wasn't working correctly, so I even ran a test strip, which came in within normal range. :) I'm kind of excited to see if I keep up this trend tomorrow. Now if only it was Friday would it totally be the best day ever!

Back to Reality

Nothing slaps my ass back to reality than a gain of 2.6lbs! YIKES!! I haven't gained anything since July so it really hurt today when I weighed in @ WWs and was told I went up a "little". Sorry, honey, 2.6lbs is more than a little.

Yes, there are several explanations for this blip (that is all this is going to be) such as...

• I'm waiting for mother nature to knock, which I've been waiting on for a month now! I thought Saturday was going to be my day with cramps so bad I took 2 Premsyn PMS capsules.
• I didn't go to the gym last week and the week before when I had such a huge drop I had went that Tuesday, so I'm going to the gym again tomorrow night!
• I been eating out a lot lately, which is my own fault. In the last 13 days, I've been to Red Lobster twice (on the 2nd and on the 6th) and I ate out for both lunch and dinner this past Saturday (Taco Bell, mini tacos from my drive-in, and Chinese) and Sunday (a shitty breakfast sub from subway and Wendy's) too!
• I drank no water this weekend.
• I haven't been counting my points, just doing what I've been doing since July and apparently that isn't going to keep working for me!

We all know what I need to do to pull this back together and I'm ready to do it! Just when I thought I had this battle front under control I discover I don't, so another thing to add to my list of battles.

Are we having fun yet?!?

Recap

I've accomplished more this weekend than I anticipated! Yay me! :D Just a quick recap...

Done: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 & 12!! Look at me go!

Yes, I finally got all of my papers filled! Woo-hoo!! Pictures will follow in the future to see what I was up against and the progress I made. Of course now I have 5 boxes sitting in my bedroom! 3 need to go to my aunt's basement...along with the 3.5 foot stack of books from my last two semesters! But hey...I can see my dresser top again and put my underwear in the drawer. LOL

I guess I would have to say I kind of accomplished #14 too since I took a nice little 1.5 hour nap this afternoon. So I'm counting that accomplished to! That only leaves 3 things on my list to do...7, 11, & 13.

Remaining hopeful for a great week this week...for all of us!!

Fail.

Yesterday morning when I got up I entered a goal in to my info line on BBM (BlackBerry Messenger). I wanted to complete 3 of my 4 class homework assignments since I didn't have any commitments on my calendar. I was actually pretty excited about this goal. My man had called and woke me up about 10mins past nine, so when I set the goal it was only 9:30am, so I told myself..."This is so doable!"

I did a little homework, hoped in the shower, went and picked my DDHC to make sure I had something in my stomach, ran to the bank and picked up some taco bell since it was close to noon by now. Came home, ate and got back to my Litigation homework. I continued to work on homework until late afternoon when I made another run in to town to the meat market for some lunch meat, picked up my favorite diet rootbeer and a small order of mini-tacos and came back home. Back to homework I went. I hit a brick wall around 6pm, had a massive headache and felt tired, so I laid down for a little nap. At 7:02pm my man called and woke me up again. 15 mins later we hung up....er, were cut off...and I came back out to the living room and went back at my homework. At 9pm, I decided to run and grab some dinner and settled on Chinese since I was being so diligent with my homework. I came home, ate while reading some homework. Finally, at 4:00am I called it quits on the homework and crawled in to bed about 45 mins later. I had only worked on 2 classes' homework and hadn't even completed that! Ugh...

For my Litigation class and my Small Firms class we have to submit "time sheets" reflecting the time we've spent on homework. I am submitting 7 hours for Litigation from yesterday (I know I spent more but I didn't accurately track when I was reading the 53 pages of handouts the DD Profs emailed us this week). I only completed 2 out of 3 of my assignments for Small Firms and clocked a total of 6.1 hours (billed in 6 minute increments) for that class too. Do you know how depressing it is to realize that in the 17 hours I was awake yesterday I "billed" 13.1 hours of homework and didn't even complete 2 classes' of homework?! Ugh....

This morning, my man called at 8:40am and woke me up and I really wanted to roll over and go back to sleep when our 15 mins was up, but I have forced my ass out of bed after less than 4 hours of sleep, still high on NyQuil so I can do another crazy day of homework. I definitely see another DDHC in my future this morning and likely a little nappy-pooh sometime this afternoon.

In case you were wondering what I did during those 3 hours and 54 minutes I wasn't doing homework yesterday, I was making 3 trips in town and checking the following items from my to-do list: 1, 2, 3, 4, & 10.

Now I'm off to take a quick shower so I can go get my DDHC!! Let's hope I don't spend another 13.1 hours on homework unless that is getting it all done!

Disinfected Streets

When I got up this morning I felt really good with the exception of not being able to sleep off my NyQuil completely, but I didn't feel foggy anymore. I made my way to work and busted my ass all day. When I input my hours I realized that I could leave at 3pm and still have 40 hours for the week. With wanting to get moving on my list I opted to see if I could leave early today. Normally I wouldn't do this because I know that 1.5 hours over my 40 isn't much, but I had a plan in my head. Leave work at 3pm, go Sam's Club to do the majority of my grocery shopping, come home, say bye to the munchkin and the aunts, put stuff away, and hit the ground running.

As is usual in my life, things didn't go as plan. I didn't get out of work until a few minutes past 4pm, it was still pouring outside~which seems to have been going on for days. I took off for Sam's Club, which was crazy busy. After I over bought (which is the norm for me too!) I headed home and when I began to unload the backend of my car my Clorex-2 bottle fell out, busted the cap and as I looked down was pouring onto the street, mixing in with the rain that was falling. I picked up the bottle as I yelled profanities. After I finished hauling everything in, I sat down with my left leg under my bottom which is when I discovered that my jeans had sucked up the rain puddles...up my leg 7 inches! I go in my room to change my pants and walk directly in to the boxes at the foot of my bed! UGH...apparently I've done wrong and karma is kicking my ass, but hey...I've got a bleached street, so maybe that is the trade off!

Let's Get Organized!!

My Friday To-Do List:

1. Write out my shopping list

2. Go grocery shopping

3. Do laundry

4. Do all of my Litigation homework

5. Do all of my Small Firms homework

6. Do all of my Pre-Trial homework

7. Do all of my PR homework

8. Finish filing my papers, hopefully!

9. Pick up the house

10. Find my AIL outline and email it to a current student of Prof. P's!

11. Write my man

12. Plan out my week

13. Write my friend from high school

14. And of course, get me some sleep!

I, shockingly, have nothing on my schedule this weekend. No appointments, no places to be. I was suppose to go with the munchkin and my aunt tonight to Halloweening @ The Village, but I bowed out and booked my other aunt in my place. I know this makes me a shitty mom, but feeling this overwhelmed all I would be thinking about is all of the stuff I need to get done that I'm not while I walk around The Village. And on top of that...it is suppose to be rainy and cold...I'm trying to avoid the swine flu not welcome it with arms wide open. Hopefully the munchkin understands someday...

Is it foggy or just me?

Another day of busting my ass at work and then muddling through class. When I left work my head felt foggy. You know...the feeling where you are discombobulated. I'm not sure if I'm just exhausted or if I'm coming down with something. I'm hoping for the first rather than the last. So since it is only 11:17pm I'm going to go and do a shot of NyQuil and hope for the best. I so can't get sick...I have a lot of shit to get done this weekend!

Thank God It's Friday Tomorrow!!!!

Feeling a little overwhelmed

This is partly my own fault. I put myself in the spot I find myself. I'm running very behind at work. This is due to a combination of my desire to retire, my lack of desire to work, my need to work on some outside "projects" during work hours, the multiple meetings we've had to attend in the last week, and the fact that my co-worker is still out on medical. So I need to get my crap together there.

Then I turn to school...I would be a little less overwhelmed if I would have been more diligent in getting last week's homework done last weekend, but I wasn't. So now I have the left-overs from last week on top of this week's assignments and the fact that in Small Firms tonight we received 3 writing assignments just kind of put me over the edge.

Combine all of this crap with my normal weekly list of items to do...Yikes!!!! Guess I better say a little prayer now for lots of motivation and productive!

It's my birthday!!!!

So today I turned 33...actually about 33 mins ago to be exact. LOL

With my obsession with numbers I don't like odd numbers; however, my boss told me that her husband believes double number years are lucky years. I'm hoping and praying her husband is right! I'm very hopeful that this will be a lucky year for all of us. :) For once in a long long time I'm eternally hopeful that this will be my year...our year.

I actually worked really hard today at work. Got a lot of crap done, which I don't think you are suppose to do on your birthday. LOL So to make up for that...I sort of took tonight off. I should have drafted my motion to strike, but I didn't. Instead I went to Red Lobster for dinner with the family (mom, dad, aunt and munchkin!). It was great with the exception that they didn't have our lobster fondue. Mom and I were not happy!!

Then I came home, finished watching the Tigers lose... :( Then I attempted to start my motion and just couldn't. So I decided to watch Sons of Anarchy instead. Of course my man promised me a Jax butt shot (they average every other week) for my birthday, but that didn't happen. :( My man so owes me now....get me all excited like that and then nada. Men.... LOL

Now I'm off to bed with the plan to be naughty at work tomorrow to bail my ass out of the hole I've dug...but hey, I enjoyed my birthday! That is what really matters, right?!

One of my favorite numbers

has always been 32. I have always been obsessed with certain numbers and 32 is one of them. Once I passed the age of 28, I couldn't wait till I got to 32. Well, due to the last 365 days, I am glad to say good-bye to the age of 32! Watch out 33...this is gonna be our year! ;)

Controversy

Apparently my little "episode" from Friday has caused quite the stir! Someone was asked to come and ask me if I would be asking the same question during this morning's townhall meeting with our VP. Um...no...not the same forum, but thanks anyway! We weren't even discussing the same things today as we did Friday. It isn't our VP's call as to what is cut and what isn't when it is corporate wide. I'm not sure how anyone could even think I would ask what I asked Friday today. Totally two different issues.........duh!

Anywho, after our meeting this morning I went and grabbed my favorite antipasto salad and then came back to work. I think I was one of the first people back at the office, but I was itchying to make my WWs meeting! I was a little scared because of Friday night and Saturday night and yesterday, but I needed to face the music! Our meeting starts at 12:30pm and I didn't get upstairs until almost ten to one, so I stuck around (knowing my yummy salad was on my desk waiting for me) and weighed in after the meeting. OMG...........I lost 4.6lbs this week! Holy smokes!!! I have no idea where I've lost it, but it is gone. I am so amazed!! I was hoping for a 1lb lose and almost feel over when she said I was down 4.6lbs! I am so happy!!!! So grand total lost is: 27.6lbs!!!!!!!!!!!! Hell, I haven't even been counting points!

Checked

I've checked a few more things off my list today. Just not the important things. C'est la vie!

Done: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, & 22

Undone: 9, 10, 11, 13, 16, 19, 20, & 21

I'm hoping and praying that this week is better than last and much more productive! It better be...it is my birthday week damnit!!

Requesting a Re-Do for This Weekend

I should have known Friday that this whole weekend was going to suck! I should have reserved myself at that time to just stay in bed when mommy dearest woke me up after I slept through my alarms and stayed there until Monday morning came around again! You know how shitty Friday was from here.

And you know how unproductive Saturday was from this. In addition to being unproductive yesterday, my guy's call was cutoff after only 3.5 minutes. Frustrating! Also, I had no motivation to do anything. My pampering took way longer than anticipated and then when I left I jammed my thumb on my car door and screwed up my polish already. I had to wear the throwaway flip-flops in to the meat market to get our lunchmeat because it was so late already! By the time I got home, I had no desire to do anything so I opted to lay down for a nap, which lasted almost 3.5 hours and I only woke up for the call from my man, which was cut off in minutes. Even at almost 9pm, I really had no drive to get out of bed, but since all I had ate all day was some hard salami, I opted to get up and order a pizza. Well, that was a killer for the sugar because I couldn't resist getting a regular pizza instead of just a taco pizza (the pizza sauce is what kills me!) I ate my pizza, did nothing else and went to bed after Saturday Night Live!

I went to bed hoping that today would be much better and I would have some motivation. I was happily awakened at 8:54am by my guy calling again. At least this time we weren't cut off!! I got out of bed, came out and did some Litigation homework and emailed the latest version to my group members. I hate group assignments! Ugh... Then I decide to take a shower and go grocery shopping. I walk out the door @ 11am with a goal of getting my Double Dark Hot Chocolate on my way to Meijers, doing all of my shopping and being out of Meijers and done by noon. When I enter Meijers I see that their reusable bags are on sale, so I opt to purchase 5 of them. I make my way to the opposite side of the store to get personal products, walk through the Halloween stuff and purchase some new towels and some really cool skeleton plates for the munchkin! On to the groceries and as I'm starting on the second half of that section I reach to get some Smart Water for the week and when I turn back I realize my DDHC is tipped upside down in to my purse! FUCK ME!!! Just so we are clear...DDHC & a Coach bag do not mix! After asking someone from the meat counter if I can have some papertowel, I finish my shopping, decide I think I have more than 5 bags worth of stuff and pick up 5 more since they are on sale ($0.78/bag...count me in!) and am checking out at 12:08pm. Not too bad...

I run to the bank, of course on a Sunday afternoon there would be 3 cars in front of me! Then on to get my other favorite drink, a diet root beer from a local drive-in and splurge on an order of mini-tacos! I come home and start putting my groceries and stuff away. Of course my sliced veggies that are in water are leaking all over one of my bags and thanks to the wisdom of the cashier, my flat-out bread/tortilla/wrap thingys are in the same damn bag. I finally get everything put away, start some laundry, pick up the house a little as I'm walking from room to room, eat my now cold mini-tacos after I spent time picking up an entire plastic holder full of cue-tips because when I tried to open my bathroom window, I knocked them over and of course they went behind my toilet on the frickin' floor! I looked up to the heavens...okay, my ceiling...and questioned if God was playing a sick joke on my this weekend!

As I walk by my very active printer I realize all that it is spitting out are blank pages. My once "running low on black ink" has became "totally out of black ink...we warned you moron!" Seriously?!? I would ask that dreadful question, but I'm scared to. I just stuck my dinner in the oven because it will take 2 hours to cook, put load #3 out of load #6 in the washer and now I need to go back and reprint all of my crap that came out blank... Not a happy day in this neighborhood.

Needless to say on top of all of this crap, my productivity is pretty low. All I've managed to accomplish so far is: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 17, 18, & 22! Matters in progress are: 3, & 14. If I finished those 2 items from my list at least I would finish the day at 50%. Too bad I can't just continue to work on #22 and wake up tomorrow to a better day.

I sure hope y'all are having a better weekend than I am....

A Slow Saturday

I'm not getting much accomplished today and I'm about to lay down for a nap! All that I have accomplished from my list is: 4, 5, 6, 17, & 18. I think I'm going to go work on 22.....

Lets get this party started!

When you are sleeping and feel a hand on your calf and realize it is an adult hand and it isn't your man, you know your day isn't going to be such a great day. This is how I woke up this morning...my mom's hand on my calf (all she could find of me outside of the blankets) asking, "Are you going in to work today?" My response, "Um yes. I am." You then find yourself scrambling to get ready and race off to work! You spend the rest of your day in a panic...

A few hours later I find myself at a "townhall" with the CEO of my company and apparently making an ass of myself or maybe him. I guess it all depends on where you sat! It had been confirmed that we are not getting raises, our healthcare costs are going up between 2% & 12% (mine will likely be the 12%~of course!), and if you are a member/purchaser of our products, which I am, the premiums will be going up effective 1/1/10! So I asked, since we have confirmed that we are not getting raises, our healthcare costs are going up anywhere from 2-12% and if we are brand loyal we will be paying more for the products we buy from my company...what do you tell us as employees? Just hang on, it will be better in a year? ...well, the response I received was a defensive one (sorry buddy if I called you out on what you are doing to us) and was told, "If you think you can do better somewhere else, go there, find another job!" Fuck you buddy. What I found amazing was that there were some employees who clapped when he said that...hmmm, lets see if you'll be clapping when you get your paycheck next year and your bills for the products! Oh yeah...BTW, Mr. CEO~I know I can find a better product and for a much better price. So when I cancel my products from your company and I'm asked why I'm leaving I'll let them know, "Mr. CEO told me if I can better, I should go there, so I have. So sorry it is a competitor!" You, Mr. CEO, has made this brand-loyal-employee to become a deal-seaking, non-loyal employee. I hope that fits in with your numbers asshole!

By the time I got home, early, with a killer headache I was frustrated! Not only did I feel like I wasn't listened to and slapped in the face with his childish response (I would think a CEO of a high powered company would have a little more tact & could have said, 'we know it is going to be hard, but we hope our employees stand by us and we will come out of this together.'), I was home early on a Friday and not feeling like doing anything other than taking a picture of my middle finger and emailing it at him! What I had planned out as a great start to my pre-birthday weekend had ended up a bust! I took some Motrin and laid down instead.

My aunt and uncle took me out for dinner tonight to start celebrating my birthday! Yummy Red Lobster!! I haven't checked my blood sugar yet (I have 16 minutes before I do!) and I'm sure they are going to be high after my 2 sunset passion pina colada, the lobster fondue we shared, the jumbo coconut shrimp, the lobster mashed potatoes (which I didn't even know existed until my aunt & uncle pointed them out, but I wasn't overly impressed), the salad with ranch and a cheddar biscuit. But it was so yummy! It was great conversation and I was able to resist their wonderfully delicious desserts. So I'm ready to face the music when I test my numbers tonight.

I love my birthday month! I received several email coupons: 25% off @ Avenue; 25% off @ my pampering salon; and either 15% off (of a $50 purchase), 20% off (of a $75 purchase), or 25% off (of a $100 purchase) @ Catherines. Sweet....

Alright...on to the mundane stuff...My Friday To-Do List:

1. Write out my shopping list

2. Go grocery shopping

3. Do laundry

4. Pick up my contacts

5. Pick up my blood strips

6. Get my nails done

7. Write my bills out (yes, again already!)

8. Do all of my Litigation homework

9. Do all of my PR homework

10. Do all of my Small Firms homework

11. Do all of my Pre-Trial homework

12. Take a picture of the progress I've made with my filing

13. Finish filing my papers, finally!

14. Pick up the house

15. Go through the munchkin's papers that have piled up this week on my counter

16. Find my AIL outline and email it to a current student of Prof. P's!

17. Send SillyJilly a link to start blogging!

18. Send SillyJilly a link to my acne treatment products, which have been so wonderful from my pampering salon.

19. Plan out my week

20. Write my man

21. Write my friend from high school as she wrote last week

22. As always, get me some serious sleep!

Dang...I always have a bunch of crap to do. Ugh...

BTW, my blood sugar was 198!! YIKES. I knew those two drinks and all those carbs were going to be trouble. The worst part is...mom & aunt & munchkin want to take me there again on Tuesday! Hmmm...guess I'll have to be better huh?! But it was so good....

Above and Beyond

On Monday I faxed my numbers to my Specialist as directed. Figuring I would only hear if she wanted to change my meds, so when my phone rang on Tuesday with her number I thought I was about to start a medication induced roller coaster again. Boy oh boy was I surprised when the doctor's office was calling to tell me how great I was doing and to keep up the good work! WOW!! I was amazed by that one! Thank you Dr. P, you are great!! I'm so happy to have her as my specialist! :)

Prisons Will Remain Open

Well, September came and went, super quick! Now it is October. There are so many things about October...Halloween, my B-day, my bro's B-day, my cousin's B-day, my nephew's B-day and the shut down of my state's government! Yes, at 12:01am, my state went in to a partial shut-down due to the fact that the legislature has failed us citizens yet again! They are unable to balance a budget so how do they solve the problem? Make us suffer some more. Don't even get me started about the idiots in our state capital... Of course the funniest thing was when the news network ran a list of the affected items on the bottom of the screen followed by a list of items that wouldn't be affected, which included the statement "Prisons will remain open." As if!?! Of course this follows my honey's statement on the phone today, 'Babe, I'll be ready for my pickup at 12:01am when they close this place down.' Too bad the government confirmed that his place was still "open" for business!