Crack-a-lacka

went to see McCrackin today. apparently I was almost too inflamed and tense to even crack….ALMOST.

the man is a miracle worker. and I have been eating the ibuprofin. and slathering the biofreeze.

kids…it’s a bitch when a waterslide can bring you down.

I wouldn’t trade one second of it.

worked all day, had a fabulous fantasy vacay improv text with Kizz…Gave Noodle her 12 year old haircut and got schooled by the child once or twice…oy. save us all from that 12 year old!…then had some gazebo….porch....patio…sitting on dirt beers with LT tonight and just talked it all out.

i actually feel human tonight as I doze off…remind me tomorrow about my Life/Math Epiphany.  gah.

Woof.

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.

HOWL!!!

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?

Friday

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.

Cosmopolitan: or It’s All In The Timing

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!

HIRED!

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.