I feel like shit.
I kind of felt like I was coming down with a cold yesterday, and in the middle of the night, my feeling became reality. I woke up with a stuffy nose and headache and couldn’t fall back asleep for hours. So, I took today off in order to get caught up on my rest. I’m all caught up, but I still feel like crap. Oh well, at least I’ll have the weekend to recover. Hopefully I’ll feel a little better tomorrow because we have a project scheduled.
I’ve been feeling restless the past few days. I think this is due to the beautiful day we had this past Monday (and the crappy days we’ve had since). Jake and I even managed to go outside and play for an hour before supper that day. Since it’s way to early to be doing any yardwork, I didn’t have much to do outside, so I mostly played with Jake. He wanted to play hide-and-go-seek. I’m always hesitant to play that game with him because of an incident we had last year…he wanted to play the aforementioned game and I was to hide. There aren’t a whole lot of places to hide in our yard, so I hid in the shed. I was in there for like 10 minutes and he didn’t find me, so I ended up looking for him instead. I looked everywhere for him and he wasn’t to be found. Naturally, I figured he was abducted. I decided to check the house just in case he went in there. I found him in the living room watching tv. Apparently he gave up on finding me so he decided to go watch the tube instead. Sheesh.
While we were out the other day, I did put a few things away in the shed–namely the scooter Jake got for Christmas and the new lawnmower we got last week. Let me tell you about this mower–it’s a reel mower (you know, one of those old-fashioned kind of mowers that doesn’t use any gas). I don’t know why, but I’ve always wanted one of these. Last year I decided to get one since we now have a place to store it. I absolutely refuse to cut the grass with a gas-powered mower because they’re just too freaking loud. But, I can see my self using this new one. Don’t get me wrong–I don’t plan on cutting the grass every week, but I can see myself helping out a little this summer. Brian never wanted one of these mowers, but he’s into it now. It could just be because any grass I mow is grass he doesn’t have to mow. We’re going to see how we like it and if it works well, we may just get rid of our gas mowers next year. Time will tell.
We took a trip to Home Depot on Sunday in order to pick up some stuff for an upcoming project. Remember how we built that shed last year and then filled it up with cherry lumber? Well, we need to build a rack to hold the lumber so that Brian’s motorcycle! motorcycle! motorcycle! has a home. Granted, the bike’s not scheduled for delivery until April or May, but there’s no sense in waiting until the last minute, either.
It’s going to be a busy spring, summer, and fall. I have quite a few projects planned for this year. Stay tuned for updates…
Today, we hosted our first playdate. Jacob’s friend, Jake came over to play this afternoon. The boys had a great time and everything went smoothly. Jacob was disappointed when Jake’s dad arrived to pick him up. But, like Brian said, any time before 11pm probably would’ve been too early for the boys.
We put the dogs in the family room because who really wants to have to deal with two little boys and two dogs running around? (Especially since I still have a migraine today.) The girls did well down there (having some rawhide to chew on didn’t hurt things). I took the first shift of watching the kids, so Brian went to the shop for a little while to work on the end table he’s been building. While Brian watched the kids, I planted a few seeds for my garden (indoors). By few, I mean 48 plants. I’m not sure if I’m going to have enough room to plant everything indoors this year–I’ll have to figure something out regarding that for sure. I mostly planted herbs today because I’m putting in a bigger herb garden this year. The good thing is that I won’t need to replant most of these herbs next year because a lot of them are perennials. I also planted some broccoli and Brussels sprouts.
Anyway, the bad thing about this playdate stuff is that Jacob wants to have everyone from daycare over at some point. I don’t know if I’ll ever be up for that…
The last episode of NYPD Blue aired last Tuesday. We had to tape it and watch it Wednesday night because I had to go into work 30 minutes early Wednesday and I didn’t want to chance things by staying up late Tuesday night. I thought the final episode was a great ending to the series. It was pretty much like any other episode, but you did manage to get some closure from it. I’m sure going to miss Andy Sipowicz. I’ve been watching the show since its inception 12 years ago. I converted Brian over once we started dating. The show has seen me through over 1/3 of my life. I’ve lived in four different places since it’s been on. I was single, then married, then a mom. A lot of things have happened in the past 12 years.
I guess all good things must come to an end.