what i did today

I’m feeling bored at the moment.  Waiting on my manager to update my queue.  I’m in between projects right now (the ones that can last up to months), trying to stay busy with all the little things which really isn’t enough.  And right now is review time and I’m having to fill out a bunch of really awkward, boring surveys about people I work with every day.

 So yesterday my doctor was REALLY nice to me.  I was shocked.  I even told him flat out that I hadn’t done my lotion like he requested because it hurt like fire and he was fine with it.  I kept expecting some sort of really long speech about how if I didn’t live in a submarine or diamond mine, I should be doing it (really, got that speech two visits ago).

 We did end up going out to eat with my family and then headed to Target afterwards to get my Dyson (see previous post).  So of course I came home and vacuumed the whole house!  Which apparently it needed it because the whole thing was full when I was done.  Lots of carpet fuzz.  Which the Rainbow guy said that was because there is sand in our dirt and it tears the carpet up, literally.

So I got our youth group’s video in mpg format out on that web site (email me if you want the link, i’d rather not post here).  Yay!  Just waiting on my new computer to install my editing software to get the rest of the stuff set up.  It’s not the best quality.  Especially since we use blacklights for lighting and I’m just recording it with our personal camcorder.  I really recorded it more for the audio for a podcast than for the video.  I just think people would use the audio podcast more than the video since most people have a nano.

Did anyone watch House last night?? It was SO good.  Best episode in quite some time.  But here’s what I don’t get.  How come House couldn’t get charged with stealing the oxy even though it wasn’t oxy (even though really it was) when he thought it WAS oxy.  So if he THOUGHT he was just stealing sugar pills and it was really oxy pills, could he be charged with stealing oxy pills.  Well, that makes no sense.  Shouldn’t what you intended to steal count for something? I know people could lie and say they didn’t know what they were stealing but STILL.  HE KNEW HE WAS STEALING A PRESCRIPTION.  I just think that is backwards!  Anyway, Heather and I watched it together and at the end when they showed clips for the next ones, we both said in unions THREE WEEKS!  Not fair.  Except for the fact that it’s because of American Idol.  That sort of makes it ok. 

And did you hear the news? Cameron and Chase are engaged in real life?  Didn’t see that one comin!

So Scott is back on nights.  He worked last night and I got quite a bit accomplished.  I was able to play with the girls–hide and seek and such, clean and mop the play room, put up Lexi’s clothes and pay our bills.  All of those (except playing with the girls) are alll the things I hate to do so they feel like huge accomplishments. 

I also managed to listen to another installment of my Beth Moore Living Beyond Yourself Bible Study.  I started this back in August or so and I’m STILL not done.  But it is SO good.  I want to do it with some group at church..maybe my Sunday School, maybe our girls youth bible study group, maybe do one for adult women.  I don’t know, but it’s so good, everyone should do it.  Anyone can do it online at www.lifeway.com/lby but I actually bought the DVDs awhile back with the intent of doing it with a group.  Hopefully I’ll figure out what that looks like.

I’m trying to get our church set up on Podcasts.  Seeing that I’m in-between computers and don’t have the right hardware, it’s quite difficult.  I’ve been having to go back and forth between the church and here and I really don’t have what I need yet to make it live.  I’m very anxious about it and we really need a good system.  We really need a DVD camcorder because when we captured the video from my digital 8 one, it was 7GB!!  That is huge and we will not be able to keep much backlog of the original files!  We will get it figured out though.  I can’t wait!

Today I have an appointment with my very rude dermatologist.  I don’t know why I continue to go to him except I’m too lazy to find a new one and plus he knows the history.  But gosh, he is SO rude.  I have a story every time I walk out of there.

Tonight I think we are going out to eat with my parents and sister.  The 3 of them have started doing Herbalife.  Mom has some customer that sells it.  Mom and Heather have already lost weight on it and they’ve only been doing it since Saturday.  Whatever works I guess.

Made it to the gym again yesterday.  She about killed me though.  I went to this class Sweatshop that I don’t normally go to but the timing worked out.  Last time I went I said I wouldn’t go back because i didn’t like the exercises she did and I didn’t get much work out.  I peeked in and the set up looked different so I went in.  She really about killed me.  I had to stop a few times so I wouldn’t faint.  I think I kicked until my leg really wouldn’t lift to kick.  It was a great workout.  This sounds funny, but I will definitely go back to that class.  I just need to eat before I go!

Kind of a blah day today.  Kids had cabin fever I think.  But I mentioned to Emma going to get McD’s for lunch and it was a no-go.  But I heard a lot of whining and saw a lot of pouting.  Up until about 2 weeks ago Lexi was getting pretty good at these pouting spells where she would go in the kitchen and lay down on the rug and get on her knees and put her head down on the ground and pout.  I have been trying to put a stop to that recently (yes, we spank after they get explained why they are getting spanked, not just random swatting).  She starts to get down on her knee now and I say, Lexi, don’t you lay down and pout and she gets up real quick.  She usually continues to cry some but at least she’s not throwing herself down places and crying.

When Scott got home from work I took off to the gym and he took the kids to his Mom’s for dinner after Lexi woke up from her nap.  She was still down when I left.  They are supposed to be bringing me some food home.  So the house is really quiet now.  I straightened up a little but now I just want to lay down somewhere.  But I always feel like I have to be doing something when the kids are not here.  Like I need to take advantage of the house being empty to do some chore I always say I can’t do when they are here.  Right now I think that might hanging Emma’s clothes up.  Ugh, I’m going, I’m going…