Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008

Today was my birthday. 36 years old. Holy crap, probably half-way to death, lol. It was a pretty good birthday; busy as usual.

I volunteered at Ealy Elementary for the Book Fair from 9-12. Heather & Taylor each picked out a book, I picked up a couple of stocking stuffers, and got a few cheap books for daycare kids for Christmas.

I've been feeling crappy for the past couple of days. Achy, a little nauseated, and my sinuses hurt. I think it's a touch of the flu, only I'm not getting it full-force because I got a flu shot this year. Also, the last few weeks I've had terrible acid reflux. So far, Tums pretty much takes care of it, although sometimes I have to chew a couple every couple of hours because it just won't go away. I've got to get back to the gym to try to lose weight; I know that's alot of my problem. Although I still have to take it easy at the gym; between having carpel tunnel surgery and then I got tendinitis in my elbow of the opposite arm. Over-compensation at the gym is what the doctor said, because I was pushing harder with my left arm and strained it. Honestly, getting old sucks!!

I then went and voted. It only took about 15 minutes to get through, so not too bad. And I got a sticker!! lol

Yesterday was my last physical therapy for my carpel tunnel surgery. I didn't think the therapy was going to do much good; I just didn't have faith in it. But I've changed my mind; the incision actually feels much better. I had alot more scar tissue than normal, and more pain in it than normal, too. Guess I'm a slow healer, so the therapy helped alot.

I then went to Wal-Mart for paint for the fence in the front yard. Notice I said for paint, but walked out with clearance Halloween stuff. How can I say no to cheap stuff? lol

I went to class from 6-9:40. Intro to ECE class. I had a book presentation to give. Basically I did circle time with my class. It went well, I think. I got my mid-term grade back; I got an 85 out of 100. I'm averaging an 88% in the class, so I'm pretty happy with that.

Came home and tried to do some work, but I was feeling crappy. I fell asleep on the couch with Critter, watched Barack Obama's acceptance speech and John McCain's concession speech. It was about 12:00 a.m. when I fell asleep during Obama's speech. Sorry, but my patriotism was tired, lol.

last weekend

We had our daycare Halloween party last Thursday evening. Nothing like 25 or so people in your house to make you exhausted, lol. It went pretty well overall. The kids were wild, and that sucked. But they're not usually like that, so I'll keep my job, lol.

On Saturday evening I went to Mom & Tom's and spent the night. On Sunday we had birthday celebrations for me, Jon, Taylor, my brother-in-law Justin, and niece Kelsey. We made really good food; cheese and crackers before dinner. I made the cheese ball out of cream cheese, Old English Spread, garlic, Worcestershire sauce, and nuts. Then for dinner we had lasagna, garlic bread, salad, jello. Dessert was spectacular. Mom made a blueberry & peach cobbler, I brought cheesecake, and Grandma made an apple pie. We were stuffed!! We played ping pong, and my sister made an ass out of herself, as usual, lol.

Today I went to court for an ex-parent who owes me money. She called this morning and wanted to know if she was going to jail because she couldn't make it. I'm done being nice to people who owe me money and promise over and over to pay. We had a vehicle repossessed, my house was less than 4 hours from being foreclosed on (our atty. saved it at the last minute), and we had to file for bankruptcy. I've lost over $16,000 in the past 6 years that I've been doing daycare, so what I really want to tell parents who don't pay is "HUG A NUT!!!". Everybody has problems, and I'm sorry that I can't feel bad for them anymore.