Surprised? Not me. Besides this cold or whatever that’s been bugging me, I feel like I could sleep for a week. The cold – yeah. As soon as I got into the deeper parts of the southeast, my allergies went berserk. Then it all exploded when I saw a caravan of lawnmowers on the highway in Florida. I managed to suck down enough sinus meds when I was at my sister’s so the nurses would let me into the NICU to see Mia, but I think that besides the massive allergy attack, looooong days driving, and many climate changes over the past week have made my body go haywire. Now I just need to get used to being back home and get myself some freaking rest.
I feel like I’ve finally caught up with reading my blogs. I’ll never be caught up on all the things I want to do online, but I did manage to get pics of Mia up on my flickr page. Sis sent pictures of Mia to Dad but he complained that they were too big. I can’t even begin to figure that one out, because Sis only thinks she knows what she’s doing online and Dad will readily admit he doesn’t have a clue when it comes to computers. I figured the best way would be to put them on flickr and give Dad the link, then he should be able to see them just fine.
As for cleaning my house, I did do a mad dash last night in preparation for guests, but there’s still more to be done. There’s always more to be done. My bathroom has multitudes of travel sized toiletries all over the place, and my toilet needs a good scrubbing. I don’t know what it is with the water here, but I get nasty and impossible to remove water rings in the bowl. I bought a pumice stone to try and take care of that, and some industrial strength cleaners. I hate a dirty toilet.
And tired, yes, I am very tired. Like I said I feel like I could sleep for a week. I overslept for work this morning. I was supposed to be at work at 11:30. That’s practically lunchtime, and yet I still woke up at 11. I ended up being a half hour late, since personal hygiene was a bit of a priority for me. And of course a half hour into my shift the need for caffeine hit me. I really need to get off the caffeine. I drank gallons of it on my drive cross country, and I usually try to avoid it because I’m too sensitive to it. Now all sensitivity has been lost, so I need to get off it so it will work again. (BTW, my caffeine vehicle of choice is diet cola – I hate coffee in all its incarnations, so good old diet coke or pepsi it is, preferably cherry flavored.)
Oh, and I must rave about my new jacket that Mom got me when I was in NH. We went to the LL Bean outlet store so that I could buy a 3 season jacket, which would be perfect for winters here in Las Vegas. I ended up picking out this one with a windproof shell and thinsulate lining, which you can see me wearing in the first photo in my slideshow about my trip. It’s pretty comfy. As I’ve been wearing it, I found a few more neat features that it has. There’s a hood that rolls up into the collar of the shell, and it’s removable so that I don’t have to have the bulk there if I don’t want it. And of course the hidden inside pockets. This part is my favorite. On the shell of the jacket, there are 3 inner pockets, and they are LABELLED!!!!! Oh yeah, this is the jacket for me. There is a cellphone pocket, the perfect size for a phone, a music pocket, with a little hole in it for your headphone wire to go through, and a glasses/goggles pocket, and in that one there’s even a lens cleaning cloth attached with a tether so it won’t get lost. Is this jacket awesome or what?
Ok, that’s enough random rambling for now. I really need to set my alarms and get my butt in bed so that I can make it through church and work tomorrow.
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