Today was ok...

Today was ok even though I've been fighting off the crud all weekend.  I could feel the congestion and post-nasal drip starting on Friday before I even left work.  Blegh.  I don't normally take decongestants, but I did this weekend because I didn't have the energy to suffer through it this time.  I needed to rest and the meds made me sleep and it was fine.  I might even take another one tonight because I need to sleep rather than stay up all night blowing my nose.

I finally went to Munford this weekend.  I saw Dad's new place and they are working on getting settled in.  There is some work to be done on the mobile home, but he's handy and can do it.  He doesn't seem to mind one bit because he'll be able to do things the way he wants them done.  He's no longer on a main road, but on the back side of the property so he's happy about that.  Overall he seemed happy with the direction in which things are heading.  I helped him clean a little today and I'll go back next weekend and see what else we can help with.

Me and Shadow also stopped by the place that burned down and it was basically completely demolished.  It was hard to look at.  It's a place where I spent summers as a kid with my aunt and brother and sometimes my cousin.  It's really sad to think that it's gone now, but there's no changing it.  On the bright side we saw Big Girl (dad's surviving dog) and Rumpy (the cat that made it).  Both were looking well so that's nice.  They'll be moving over to the new place this week when Dad and Lisa start staying there.

Other than that I still haven't gotten any grades for the two hard tests I took.  I have Biology class in the morning so maybe I'll see how I did on that one, at least.  My Trig teacher also teaches high school and she's on spring break with them this week so we might not get our grades on the tests until after GSCC Spring Break ends the next week (the week starting after the week that starts tomorrow).  Feels like a long time to wait, but I'm trying not to be anxious about it.

Anyway.  I hope the weekend has been good to you.  I've wanted several times to paint my nails, but these butterfly lacey ones are hanging in there and I just have no good reason to remove them yet.  I bet after I scrub Teyla's floor tomorrow and do some other things around the house that they will be ready to come off.  😂  I guess I can entertain myself by figuring out what I'd like to do next.  😃

Goodnight, friends.  Maybe this week will take it easy on all of us.  🙂

Me and the kid...

Me and the kid are watching Bob Ross paint on Hulu. Everyone needs to watch Episode 2 of Season 23 (Forest Edge). He goes from politely shit-talking a bad driver to nursing a baby raccoon - all while creating a beautiful forest painting. ❤❤❤

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!