Last Sunday after we went to church with my parents, my brother joined us for lunch at Perkins. That afternoon I took Casey's cell phone to the T-Mobile store because the internet hadn't been working for a long time. But as soon as I got there I realized she had it password protected and I couldn't ask her what the password was because I had her ( Read more... )

As if I weren't always running low enough on time and money, the holidays had to come along. So tired. I want to go to bed but the one load of laundry I've had time to do this weekend needs to go in the dryer first. The past few days have been a blur of trying to get as much crap done as possible while also catering to Casey's whims, but I'll try ( Read more... )

Casey has been officially kicked out of band. If you haven't been following the saga, it goes like this - she decided to be a part of band at the very last minute, I believe it was the week school was starting. This meant she had missed the mandatory 2 week band camp over the summer, and that her schedule would have to be re-arranged in order to ( Read more... )

Friday I got off a little early after working a few long days earlier in the week, got some cash, stopped by the benefits desk to pick up an electronic jump-rope (which I received for participating in a summer health challenge thingy... a consolation prize for everyone who didn't win the big drawing), gassed up the car, stopped by my brother's shop ( Read more... )

My mom is back in the hospital with her pancreatitis. They think maybe they let her go too soon last time, so they will be keeping her longer now. Her pancreas just needs some time to rest, so no food or drinks while she's there and she'll be on an IV of pain meds, antibiotics, etc. She and my dad were supposed to leave on a trip to Australia ( Read more... )

I saw two movies today - The Lovely Bones at the theater with April and Jeff, and He's Just Not That Into You via Netflix with Casey ( Read more... )

You guys, I have been so busy. Running running running. Not much time for leisurely things like LJ (writing this on my lunch break at work, and I’m SO behind in reading your posts), or TV (my DVR is almost totally full now. Ha). Oh December ( Read more... )

Typing this from the backseat of my parents’ van, about halfway into an 11 hour drive to North Carolina. No WiFi available, but I’ll put this in Word and copy/paste later ( Read more... )

It's been nice. Not long enough, but then again since it's an extra day off I didn't really feel obligated to be super productive. So I had a lazy morning, and then finally took a shower and headed out. Stopped at Casey's doctor's office to pick up the new patient paperwork so I could have it filled out before her appointment and then went to ( Read more... )

Saturday Casey and I went to Disney with my friend Mike and her friend Bailey. We had a great time, but it was exhausting. We were there for 12 hours and did all 4 parks. EPCOT was fairly busy because they've got the food and wine festival going on, but the other parks were nice and quiet... we barely waited in line for anything ( Read more... )