Home from our Great Wolf adventure…I dont know how Wonderboy and Bonusmom are doing this morning but holy hell. I think I got the whiplash on a waterslide. Seriously. My neck started hurting on the second day, but I thought I just slept wrong. It progressively has become more and more gimpy. Sheesh. Old.

The trip was fabulous however. We swam for hours and hours. We hit the wavepool for hours and hours. We floated the lazy river. We rode waterslides. Multiple times. We played inside and outside. We played MagiQuest. Which…let me just say, is pretty brilliant. It’s an interactive scavenger hunt/video game kind of thing. The kids have wands. There are clues. One must traipse up and down the stairs because, ya know, there’s clues in the stairs. Many quests. Many adventures. Wonderboy left,after two and a half days of questing, as a Master Magi. The questing really revs up after 9pm when the waterparks close…imagine all the kids…hot stairwells…loud reveberating stairwells…holy crap. It’s a lot. Even Wonderboy said forget it a time or two. We revised our playing strategy and kicked some butt the next time around!

The trip home was fairly easy, minus some construction traffic. I was exhausted and hurting quite a bit. I watered the front and the back then I took some muscle relaxers and hit the bed before the sun went down. true story. Everyone is getting more water this morning because uhh yeah. We’re in the upper 90’s here this week. Sheesh. it’s still June for crying out loud! I’d had my a/c set on 80 while away and let me tell you, we got home about 3:30 and it took a full 10 hours to cool the house down to 70. My poor a/c…

It was a great trip. I’m gimping and hurting but it was allllll TOTALLY WORTH IT!!! Hope your weekend was great, that you had good Father’s Day’s, that your week is grooving right along. For the Normal’s…it’s your Humpday!!! Wahooo!!!

Have a cuppa joe. Drink some water today. Smile awhile.

FINALLY!!!! It’s the day of departure!!!

I have most of everything collected and ready to load. Fridge clean, litterbox clean, trash out, yards watered, garden fertalized and watered, cats all fed and loved, house picked up to return to, car cleaned out and detailed and filled with gas…

Need to shower my body (FINALLY in a warm shower today) run some checks to the bank to deposit, go to work and fix M’Lynn’s hair then she and I are getting pedicures. Lest you think I”m being ridiculous…you seriously should see the cracked heel I’ve been walking around on. That has to get taken care of before I’m in the water for three days and scraping it on the bottom of pools…ouch. Then it’s home to load the car with two of my favorite people and all our stuff and head south on I-35!!!

GREAT WOLF LODGE HERE WE COME!!!

have you seen this place?

Man oh man…we are soooo close to our mini break!!! Great Wolf Lodge is within smelling distance. My lawn is mowed, and after Monday’s flood sufficiently watered. The fridge is mostly cleaned out. Bills are paid. Things left to do…go clean out car so I can take it to Red Carpet today.  Fill up with gas. Packing, which means a load or two of laundry. Today is a mostly full day…there is a bit of a break where I can take my car and perhaps get a pedi. My heels are cracking and I’ve been picking and well…it’s horrifying.

Oh. Must firm up plans for the cat/garden care while I’m away.

SO EXCITED!!!! Wahoo!!!

Also in the Exciting News File, I spoke with my insurance company yesterday about my leaking roof and water damage in the spare room due to the monsoon on Monday. I was afraid it was going to be another claim, HOWEVER they are just tagging it onto the current one. What a blessing!!! So next week I need to get an estimate on repairing the drywall and ceiling and send THAT in. Sheesh. What I would really like? a little extra…windows? or perhaps a freaking trip. yeah, I know I should put it towards debt…sigh. We’ll just jump off that bridge when we get to it, ya?

ok. I have to go outside and clean out my car. Happy Friday Ya’ll!!! Enjoy your day, stay out of the heat, drink some water, laugh a little…

i love you and I love george clooney.

Wanna know what cures the MEH’s and the BLEARGH’S and a twleve hour day full of color education, a friend being hurt and a long ass day of listening to people’s drivil while you know you must get home to mow the ONE CORNER of your lawn that is growing as well as figure out why there it no hot water?  And since there is no hot water figure out how to fucking light your pilot on the hot water heater???

What cures that is at the very end of your day, I mean the VERY END, after twelve hours of all of it, station back in order, hair swept, tips collected, all of it finished, when you’ve gathered your purse and are THIS CLOSE to walking out the door…

you say, “what in the world is M’Lynn doing here?”

and she walks in and says…”I was wondering if you were about to get off work and would like to go to the Waterford and get a cosmo with me and talk awhile?”

“YES! YES! YES! YES! Please GOD pick me! YES!”

so we went to our place at the Waterford where the cosmo’s are mixed juuuuuuust right, with that tiny sliver of lemon in it and the bitty bitty ice flecks floating around in that oh so pretty hot pink juice….

and gentle readers…we covered it ALL.

dates.

work.

home repairs.

rent.

work.

high school.

bras.

supper.

traffic.

hawaii.

the big twelve.

the end of the world.

(those two go hand in hand around here)

television programming.

cable.

laptops

iPads.

chicken.

old friends.

new friends.

work.

sugar free candy.

laffy taffy wieners. (that’s what she calls that mondo long laffy taffy)

fitness.

lack of fitness.

snack mix.

we covered it all.

sooooooooo…tomorrow I will be taking a cold shower. I’m fine with that. Tomorrow night I will be packing for my trip, cleaning my car, and mowing my lawn. Hopefully…figuring out how to light that fucking hot water tank will figure in as well…thing is? it’s over 90 every day this week. I can shampoo at work. I’m not that worried.

Here’s to you on your Humpday…I hope that you were as blessed as I was with a most splendid surprise at the end of yours.

CHEERS!

I have a roof that is temporarily repaired. I have a general contractor that is going to do all the cyphering and the figuring to get my roof done, my house painted, and the guttering put up. He is the husband of one of my managers at work. He came over at 7pm and after he repaired my leaks, he sat with me and went line by line over the insurance papers and explained things to me (some things several times) Words like contracting and depreciation and line items and composite shingles and decking and what the what????

Todd is my Rainy Monday Hero.

He’s going to get back with me by Wednesday and then we’ll get started. WHEW!!!

So…I’m thinking of having my house painted a different color other than the white that is on there now…I’m going to have my trusty decorator give me his opinion and we’ll see! Kinda exciting to think about it when it’s someone else’s money.

The floods today were epic. Seriously. We made national news all day long…but tonight it’s calm. and I’m covered. and the windows are open and the breeze is blowing and I threw some grass seed out that will hopefully spring forth in a few weeks and things will be back to normal. I have high hopes for this week.

Happy Monday Ya’ll.

and I’m standing in my house.

yup. roof’s leaking in the spare room.

we’ve had flash flooding.

something like 10 or more inches since 3am.

shit is wack.

and I am officially over it.

Summer nights, under the stars, hanging with my Pseudo Sisters and about 5096 other people…tonight! 

just how much coffee I will need to gulp down in order to make it till five pm?

what I’m going to wear to the Tim McGraw/Lady Antebellum concert tomorrow night?

if it’s gonna rain tomorrow at said outdoor concert?

how tomorrow’s premiere of TRUE BLOOD will be?

why Kikimama has the runny poo?

if ANYTHING will stop the bird killing at mi casa? (two yesterday. one outside one inside. all three cats are wearing collars with bells.)

when I will get to mow my front yard like my neighbor is doing?

if the A-Team movie is any good?

what I’ma gonna do tonight?

I’ll keep you posted as I get answers.

The past two days have whooped my butt. Seriously. Lotta hair to bang, but the tips have been good and I’ve been paying bills each day so…I appreciate your mojo that you’ve been sending my way. Muy appreciato.

I had to kick Laurie Partridge and her tambourine out of my room last night. She’s pissed at me but I slept like the dead. Till about 6:30 when Sammy came meowing his butt in my room…I found him waiting patiently in front of his bowl as I stumbled into the kitchen. Oy.

As usual I checked under the table for a carcass, CLEAR!!! Grabbed my java and headed outside for my morning ritual of watering and deadheading and talking to all the plants. Stormy is laid out in the middle of what grass I have…and shit the bed. There’s a baby bird. Almost dead. DAMNIT!!!!! I’m only hoping that it fell out of the next and we didnt have any cradle robbing going on…shit shit shit. I throw my hands up in defeat!

Today I have a few appointments, with openings for more. Tonight I have a wedding to bartend. Tomorrow another full day of banging hair then WEEKEND!!!! Ahhhhhh. I’m still doing well and keeping up my chores for the week so I can laze about on the weekends. This Sunday is the Tim McGraw/Lady Antebellum concert! I’m excited about that!!!

ok…that’s it from me. I need more coffee.

We’ve all known that my cats (Sammy in particular) has a penchant for killing. This week, I heard the last squawks of a pretty pretty cardinal and had to clean up the mess BEFORE I went to work…ENOUGH! Collars and bells for EVERYONE!!!

Why don’t you keep collars on your cats you ask? Well. They get rid of them. They last for a few days, then poof. They come home sans jewelry. One month, I spent 40 bucks keeping them in collars. Finally I threw up my hands and said Fuggadaboutit.

We are trying it again.

Upside is, third day in a row and all three still wearing them. NO BIRDS!!! dead or alive in my house.

Downside? The one woman tamboruine band at the head of my bed where Kikimama has taken up residence each night. For the love….finally about 4am I just pushed her off the bed. Santas sleigh constantly in my ears. Couldn’t go back to sleep, as my brain IMMEDIATLY started with The List.

“contractors: roofer, painter, guttering…send in reciepts for grill…do I replace the umbrella or buy the hammock? what am I going to make and take for lunch tomorrow? am I really going to finish that book I started last night? It’s not doing it for me”

rattle and hum.

I was asking Hawk just yesterday…how did we become Those People? The ones that are wound so tight that the voices and the lists and the guilt make it almost impossible to even at the minimun…get a good nights sleep??? Seriously. If I ever get a vacation…it will take me the first three days to just chill out before I can enjoy anything! Sheesh. Just amazing.

So now, I’m sippin my coffee. I always feel a little bit of accomplishment when I set it up to automatically finish making by the time I wake up. I have a fairly busy day. 9-8 so it’s a long one. I’ll take a break this afternoon and try to remember to go across the street to the mall and pick up my contacts that have been at the dr.’s office for a month now…maybe run an errand or two.

In wrapping up, today is Laura’s Birthday!!! Wahoooo! Happy Happy Happy day to you my dear girl. Enjoy Chicago. Enjoy Michigan Avenue. Enjoy all of it!!!