I felt like I deserved it, so I treated myself last night. I painted my nails!

I felt like I deserved it, so I treated myself last night.  I painted my nails!  Woohoo!  😃

I didn't go with the whole "butterfly on each finger" thing.  I just can't.  It feels so wrong to try to match my nails.  And when I inevitably fail it will look dumb, too, because they won't be perfect, so... there's that.  LOL

I wish this lighting would have captured the beauty of my base coat, Demure Vixen by Essie.  I know it's not the best match to my skin, but I love the pink / lavender undertone.

I also meant for one of my butterflies to turn out blue (the one on the thumb), but the way I layered the colors, it didn't work out that way.  Oh well.  At least it is somewhat different than the green and purple on the ring finger.

Anyway.  I did it.  And I like it.  But I wish I could take it off already and paint something else now.  LOL  I'm terrible.

Today sucked.

Today sucked.  I fought a migraine all day.  Didn't go to work.  Mostly didn't get anything productive done until about an hour and a half ago.  🙁  And that's really terrible because there is A LOT to do.  I'm finally doing laundry - which is something because everything that got wet will mildew / mold if I don't hurry the hell up.  🙁

I do not feel well.  My head and my brain aren't good.  I think that I have hit a point of "stressed out" from which I'm not having an easy return.  I feel really weird inside my head.  Like, almost kind of head-spinny all the time.  And even when I'm exhausted sleep doesn't come easily and I feel really shitty when I do finally wake up.

I don't know what I need to do to get back to a "normal" kind of feeling, but I wish I did.  Maybe it's just a time thing.  But I haven't really felt ok since Monday.  I've had episodes of my chest being tight... kind of almost suffocate-y at times.  I'm not really used to that.  But between that and my head I'm having a hard time focusing and thinking and doing things.  🙁

I'm glad it's Wednesday.  I'll see my dad this weekend.  He's moving into his new place so that should be awesome.  I will also be seeing a friend and taking her some nail art supplies so I think that will be fun also.  As long as I can survive until then.  😂😂😂😭😭😭

Me, in dragon form. 😂😂😂

Me, in dragon form.  😂😂😂

My Baby Man! 😃

My Baby Man!  😃  Shadow, back when he was small enough for me to carry him around.  😍

Pardon the line through the middle of the photo (if you can see it).  I couldn't get a scan without it, though the original photo doesn't have it.  I'm not up for a lot of shooping tonight.  😕  The fact that I had to scan this in should tell you all that I'm old and tired.  😂

Ok, well, today was better than yesterday.

Ok, well, today was better than yesterday.  I did miss class this morning, but we have water in the house now and I did manage to work for an hour or two.  Biology class for tomorrow is canceled so I'll make up some work hours tomorrow, I guess.

My bedroom (which seems to be the lowest room in the house) is where most of the water flowed to.  I didn't realize until this morning that both of my carpeted closets got wet so I immediately started moving stuff out of there when I found out.  Looks like a minimal amount of stuff was damaged, thank goodness.  However, my bedroom is in such disarray that it took me forever to get myself out of the house.  I needed dry shoes, which were buried under the stuff I removed from the closets.  It felt like the difficultly of every minute task was multiplied by a thousand today.  Blegh.

I've got a ton of laundry to do - partially clean things that got wet, part dirty things that I was going to do anyway, and part was clothing that was donated to my dad that was in a box in my bedroom.  My porch also looks terrible because it's full of stuff I moved out of the house so we could get the water up, so...  I need to go through that and see what survived and what didn't.  But that's going to have to wait until this weekend because I am freaking exhausted.  😳

Anyway.  I don't think Shadow had a bad birthday, thank goodness.  We took him to eat at Waffle House (that's what he chose!), and my mom came to see him and brought him a dessert he likes.  There was not much celebrating today because we all felt like crap.  I didn't get nearly enough sleep because I was up cleaning and despite making Shadow go to bed he didn't sleep well because of all the noise we were making with the wet / dry vac.  Shaun didn't sleep at all - he just stayed up a few more hours and then went to work.  So we haven't been a very lively crew, but maybe by this weekend we can relax and do something fun.  I hope!

Well, I'm about to check on all the animals and call it a night.  I don't think I could stay awake for much longer even if I tried.  Goodnight, friends!

Me to Shadow this morning...

Me to Shadow this morning after he woke up to get ready for school (both of us sleepy and groggy in the hallway):

"You can't shower and you have to pee outside.  Happy Birthday."

So the Man-Cub is 16 today.  We have no water, but we have a plumber on the way.  I missed class and I'm late for work.  Shadow's home, as well, because me and Shaun were up all night vacuuming and cleaning so I know he didn't sleep well.  Not to mention that I'm pretty sure it's torture to send a 16 year old anywhere without a shower.  😂

Shadow has hung in there with me through 16 years of me never quite having my shit together as much as I'd like.  And he's ALWAYS been a good sport about it.  I knew I was a lucky mom before he was even born.  When he got here he was the happiest, cutest, goofiest baby, and he's still happy, cute, and goofy - just not so little anymore.  He's 100% been the best surprise of my life and from pregnancy through watching him grow up - definitely the most interesting thing to ever happen to me.  Life as a young single mom with a kid hasn't always been easy, but every minute has been WORTH IT.

Thanks for being awesome, kid.  I love you all the way.  ❤

1:30 in the morning and...

So... 1:30 in the morning and with both me and Shaun trying our hardest we're just now to the point where most of the water is up.

Since the water is turned off Shaun's on his 3rd trip to Wal-Mart for the day to get a few jugs of water for hand-washing and tooth-brushing and such. 

Does anyone have a good plumber to recommend?