I haven’t updated my blog in a LONG time. So says El Fiance - live! from Afghanistan! for only 23 more days! - to which I reply, “What? two weeks and two days isn’t that long.” And here I am. I’ve just been sitting here contemplating today’s to-do list: get David’s glasses fixed, take the dog to the vet, get costume elements for the movie David’s making for his History class, sushi dinner out with a friend this evening, shower, laundry, not necessarily in that order.

I’ve dropped by here to visit and thought about making an update or two, but there just didn’t seem to be much to say or an interesting way to say any of it. Well, sometimes, you just might suck. So, hey, there was that two day trip to Tulsa for work on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week, that turned out to be a lot of fun. I went as a trainer and I ended up letting my nerves get the best of me, but I’ll do better next time. All the feedback I’ve gotten from that says I’m WAY too self-critical and everyone did just fine, but sometimes you don’t want to be just fine, sometimes you want to be GREAT! DAZZLING! FANTASTIC! etc. Oh, who am I kidding, I want to be those things ALL the time.

And then my 35th birthday was on Sunday the 18th and Mother Nature helped me celebrate by dumping fifteen pimples on my face – about HALF of them on or inside my nose and I would just like to say that I am officially too old for this shit and Mother Nature, would you PLEASE stock up on your Midol again, kthnx. It was a quiet day, I went out by myself for the first part of the day. David stayed home because Allergies are kicking his arse this year, but I can’t say I minded a quiet pedicure, shopping by myself without him asking to go places he’d prefer, and not having to worry about what he would eat when I went to P.F. Chang’s for lunch because he’s not fond of Chinese food. I had the Great Wall of Chocolate as my birthday cake there, but, minding my weight loss (sixteen pounds now!), only ate half of it and brought the rest home for the kid…who surprised me by sweeping the floors, taking out the trash, and starting his own laundry. “Look, mom, I’m becoming much more self-sufficient!” Happy Birthday to me, indeed! I didn’t find much out in the stores so I came home and bought this: On clearance, PLUS an extra 30% off, thank you very much. Originally about $370, but got it for $90 after adding FedEx shipping and all that. 

I’ve been trying to get a little yard work done here and there this week. I tore up some crumbling bricks used as garden borders at the front of our house and pulled out a vine-plant-thingy I’ve never been particularly fond of. And then I wondered why we don’t seem to own a wheelbarrow, but instead have a big red trash can labeled “Clean Socks” that we apparently use to haul weeds and dirt around. And then I sprayed some weedkiller around and then I got dizzy because allergies are kicking MY arse as well – no, really, it’s so bad here, the morning of my birthday I was in the backyard with the dog and there was a breeze blowing which created a kind of greenish blizzard because crap was just POURING down out of the trees and ah-CHOO sniffle sniffle hack cough someone PLEASE get this VISE off of my head and stop PINCHING my nose I’ve had a sneeze stuck in there for DAYS, etc. – and I came in, took some Sudafed, and went to bed because the Non-Drowsy formulas work SO well. 

And now? To shower.