OK, I’m out. Two of my final four teams lost this weekend for one bracket and my winner lost in another game so I’m out. Better luck next year I suppose.
kids sick
Grrr..so Lexi either has really bad allergies or the croup or something. I had to go get her at MILs Saturday morning after waking up at 11 after the concert the night before. She said she barely slept Friday night. So I decided not to take her to church but Emma REALLY wanted to go to church so I decided to drop her off at church and have ILs be responsible while I was not there. Lexi and I ended up going to the youth room and working on the podcast while she watched a movie on the big screen up there. (too bad the sound didn’t come out on it and i have to redo it AGAIN). So I pick up Emma after church and lo and behold it looks like she has pink eye. Yuck. Anyway, we stayed home the rest of the day save a trip to drop an overdue movie off at Blockbuster, a trip to get Emma some eye drops the dr had called in and a trip to Grandma’s to get Lexi’s Arial doll we had left over there. Lexi is coughing a good bit. I just realized I didn’t give her cough medicine, only Benadryl tonight. Maybe I should go give her some. But then there’s the whole paci issue. She may want it if she starts crying again. I’ll give her some time and then see. All this sickness means no school tomorrow even though work tomorrow for me. At least Scott is off the next two days.
Paci gone?
Wow, why didn’t someone tell me to do this before! OK, so apparently Emma took the job into her own hands this afternoon while the 3 of us stand in the kitchen getting ready to go to Grandma’s house…
Emma puts her hands on her hips and takes a teacher-type voice Lexi! You don’t need that paci anymore. You’re a big girl. You need to throw it in the trash. Emma puts her hand out
Lexi leans over and spits her paci out into Emma’s hand. Emma walks to the trash and opens the lid and dangles the paci over it, looks at us and asks me in a much less authoritative voice if she should do it. Lexi shakes her head yes.
Me: Sure! throw it away.
Emma: OK!
Me, with crossed fingers, toes, arms and legs: OK, paci is all gone, let’s go to Grandma’s!
So we all head out the door without a peep from Lexi. We’re walking through the garage and Emma crosses her arms and says No more paci! So of course Copy Cat crosses her arms and says No more paci! We get in the van and Emma says Lexi, you want your paci? Lexi shakes her head yes and Emma says, Well, I threw it away!
She asked a couple more times for it including at bedtime and I told her Emma threw it away and it’s all gone and Lexi says, Ohhh… She seems sad and it seems to register. All I want to do is grab it out of the trash and give it to her but I stay strong and take her to bed without it. She currently is sleeping (well, actually coughing in bed right now) without it, so yay!
Chris!!
Yo, yo, yo! I think I’m going to see Chris Daughtry in Greensboro for his free concert. I’m so psyched! Woot!
at work
I ended up coming into work today. It’s been a good day. It’s nice outside and I’m getting a few things accomplished.
Have I mentioned how much I’ve been going to the gym? I went 4 times last week and have been 3 times this week already. It always feels great and I actually always want to stay longer. Well, except last night when I went to Sweatshop, usually I can’t even breath in that class so it’s nice to walk out of there.
I think I may have ruined all of my efforts. I ate crab alfredo at Olive Garden for lunch today…back to the gym I go!
AI Top 11
So all the performances were decent. I actually thought Sanjaya had improved. Not as impressed with Lakisha this week. Blake was my favorite.
As for the vote-off, surprised that Stephanie got voted off. But I think Simon has it right that it’s better to be bad than forgettable. Really surprised Chris R was in the bottom 2 though and not Phil, I thought for sure he’d be in the bottom or gone.
Me Day
Saturday was a bit of a me day. The girls were at ILs house for the day. We were invited to brunch at IHOP with J&J. It was a really nice visit and we may make that a weekly thing we do. We came home and Scott actually helped me clean the house. I had given it a good cleaning the week before so it didn’t take that long. I went to the gym during lunch and then headed for a manicure and pedicure after a shower. It was a very nice morning/afternoon for me. I could do that every weekend and be quite happy!
Brackets
So I started by downhill sloped in one of my pools…down from #1 to tied with several for #3. As for the one at work, I’ve worked my way up to #8. It’s really funny because my coworkers are #14, #50 and #71 in that pool so seeing that I have no clue what I’m doing, it seems ironic that I’m doing better than them and my manager is razzing them about it apparently. It seems odd to not have any games for a few days. I have no idea why I’m into this this year but actually hope I win one of the pools.