The lease is just about up on my car, so I’m heading in to the dealer today to pick up a new one.  We’re buying this time, because it makes more sense financially, which is odd for me, but what the hell, I’m a grown-up, I can handle one car for more than 2 years, right?

This morning I pulled everything out of my car. Then, being the blogger that I am, decided to share with you the stuff….I give you….the contents of my car!

And just for fun, here are some of the things I found:

1. Plastic dog bowl
2. ONE shoe
3. umbrella (3a=another umbrella)
4. 3 packs of gum, one thing of orange tic tacs (who knows how old those are!)
5. Nuvi
6. packing tape
7. assorted winter and ball caps
8. Map of Michigan that is probably older than both of my kids
9. bag from Cracker Barrel which has forgotten Valentine’s Day presents for the boys in it
10. assorted glasses
11. Random Objects: Change, Kleenex holder (no kleenex), one matchbox car, receipts, a straw, some taco bell mild sauce, not currently used iphone case, various cords.
12. Cases for aforementioned eyeglasses
13. snow scraper
14. eye drops (and ear drops for the dog in another spot)
15. credit card paper rolls that need to be returned to Office Max
16. Reusable grocery bags

Not labeled but there – the blanket all the stuff is sitting on, a bottle of water, a thermos of juice (eww), fake money, gloves, a library book, 2 pens and a pencil, and an old napkin. Of course, having kids, there was also random food stuff – a cracker, wrappers, a petrified timbit. You know, the usual. Plus 2 booster seats, a leash for the dog, shredded paper to take to the recycle bin.

What would you find if you cleaned out YOUR car today?

My day started out pretty crappy (slept too good, had crazy dreams I needed to finish, and I did not want to get up, plus I was just inexplicably cranky).

Finally got the boys to school (late) to find the doors we’re supposed to drop off at locked. Annoying.

Decide to try to talk myself out of bad mood with McDonald’s for breakfast, including one of their lovely McCafe Frappes and very loud Glee music.

McDonald’s drive-thru inexplicably closed; they requested (at the speaker) for people to come in to order. Uh, no. Not getting out of the car.

Had BK for breakfast instead and was wholly unsatisfied.

Finally get into the groove at work – inventory, talking frame lines, discussing how to revamp, what to put on sale, etc. Look at watch and realize I have to go get boys (stupid 1/2 day).

Am late getting to boys. Preston with Latchkey group, Matt no where to be found so I race around the school to find him out front with the principal.

Try to talk boys out of going to my mom’s to have lunch and help her get new printer. No dice. Have very long annoying discussion about eating on the way or eating out with her.

Get lost trying a new way to mom’s house.  (But finally have some laughs while realizing that I suck at directions)

Get to mom’s, go to lunch (late and again, wholly unsatisfying, with boys that are being brats), go get new printer.

Go back to mom’s, setup new printer (thankfully easy), try to remember how to play the piano, listen to the boys try harder.

Still cranky.

Bo gets home, and while the boys are occupied with my mom, I had a nice, adult conversation.

Amazingly, turned my mood right around.  Intelligent conversation as mood booster – who’d a thunk it?!

(Of course, the kids were nuts after we got home again, didn’t listen, etc. But Molly (our old nanny/babysitter) came to visit, so that was nice).

And now, to bed.

Tomorrow will be a better day.

RIGHT?!?!

Even though I don’t work 9-5 and have to go into the office on Mondays, Sunday nights are still Sunday nights before Monday mornings, and I find that if I can stay IN the weekend, it’s not a big deal, but the moment I realize the weekend is over and things are about to get crazy again, I get a case of the Sundays.

Today was a kind of rough day for me and I don’t really know why.  Of course there are the usual work-related money things weighing on me heavily, which of course results in home money things weighing on me and Mike, which of course weighs even heavier because Christmas is rapidly approaching and I LOVE to buy and give presents, which of course is difficult with money issues – not impossible, just harder and I have to be more creative.

Plus the boys have been horrible listeners for me lately and they are driving me nuts.  They push and push and push until I finally snap at them and then they apologize and then I feel guilty…I don’t know if it’s the upcoming holiday break, Christmas coming, or just the cold weather and lack of outside time that is causing them to be crazy, but it’s a struggle in the morning AND in the evening at bedtime.  Perhaps tomorrow will be a better day – I’m going to try to adjust my attitude and maybe that will help as well.

Plus my leg has been bothering me today – very twingey, a little sore and slightly swollen feeling all day.  I have my last PT appointment tomorrow, during which I am hoping to get a compression stocking that actually fits and stays up.  I tried to do some exercise yesterday – did 20 minutes of Wii Fit before I felt like I was overdoing it without my stocking on; plus we walked all over the place for a couple hours, then did some baking, so I’m sure it’s just that.  I’ve been doing my own massaging, so hopefully that is helping.

And now that I’ve been whining about everything, enjoying the quiet and aloneness of everyone else being in bed, I’m feeling a wee bit better, as it usually happens.

It’s late, but I think I’ll read some blogs and then head up to bed. The solitary and quiet is hard to find around here sometimes, you know?

Thursday I got Tubey removed.  It actually didn’t hurt at all (yay for numbness!), and just for fun, I did look at the part that had been living inside my leg.  Um, GROSS.  I mean, really, gross.  The cool thing is how fast that little hole healed up…it’s still a little icky, but for the most part, it was like magic!

I started yesterday wearing my sexay compression stocking. Very snug but not too bad…until today that is. Today, after I had been walking around the house, cleaning up a bit, it started to bug me. Upon further inspection, it had slipped down my leg and was bunched around my knee. Huh.  Not going to stop a lot of swelling if it doesn’t stay up, now will it?! I obviously either didn’t have it up high enough (yes, it’s a thigh high) or it’s really not the right size.  Although, my upper inner thigh IS still fairly swollen, so that may have something to do with it.  Either way, pain in the arse!

The boys had their last soccer game today. It was windy and cold and I’m pretty sure the parents were more excited for the end of the season than the kids were!  When we got home, I put together all the pictures from the season and I’m going to order a photo book.  Normally, I would have made a scrapbook album, but apparently life has made other plans for my time and the photo books ARE super easy and inexpensive!

I’m working on the photo books for the grandparents as well.  Last year was the first year, so I did Birth to 5 for Matt and Birth to 3 for Preston.  This year I am doing one book of both of them, September of last year to August of this year (after birthdays to birthdays).  The crappy part is that sometime in March of this year, I lost a BUNCH of pictures from my computer.  I have no idea how, if it was one of the boys or just a glitch or if I did it accidentally, but either way, I am missing photos from October 4th through February 8th.  Which means that, especially since my memory SUCKS, I basically lost 4+ months of memories of my boys’ lives.  NICE. Also, it makes it hard to make a complete book with CHRISTMAS AND HALLOWEEN missing!! GAH.  Am trying a recovery, but last time it didn’t work; crossing fingers for better luck this time around.

Tomorrow we’re heading to the pumpkin patch and hopefully throwing some Halloween decorations up around the house.  I’m so behind because of my surgery and recovery it’s crazy…not to mention that Preston’s costume is NOT EVEN CLOSE to being completed (spray paint FAIL)! ARGH….

Hopefully I will be posting some happy fall pictures of mah boys tomorrow…until then! xoxo

Ok, I’m done with this stupid tube being in my leg…I’m done being stuck on this couch…I’m done wearing yoga pants and a bandana to cover my hair every day…I’m done with this whole cancer thing.

What’s that? I don’t have a choice on the cancer thing?  Oh, alright.  But I AM done with the rest.

Fingers crossed, tubey comes out tomorrow along with the remaining 4 staples.  My drainage is almost at the right spot, but moreso, they don’t want to leave it in much longer time wise, so tomorrow we head to U of M Cancer Center again and hopefully leave some things behind.

I still have my MRI & CAT scans to do, but once those are done and checked out, I’m hoping for at least a few month reprieve from that part of Ann Arbor.

The numbness in my leg is getting better and I am definitely walking a lot better, with less of a limp.

Tomorrow I will find out my next steps in the process of taking care of myself.  I want to be able to drive, to go on walks, to play with my Wii Fit and EA Active; I want to be able to clean the house (oh my GAH, the vacuuming that needs to be done!), I want to go to TARGET (oh, how I have missed thee!).  I want to be able to run upstairs to the boys when the yell (well, not really, it would be so much better if they just didn’t do that!). I want to get back to living the life I know, albeit a little more cautiously with regard to that big yellow thing in the sky.

I’m doing research and looking into specialized supplements and diets and such for cancer (let me know if you have any ideas or suggestions).  Since I don’t need additional treatment right now, I’m not looking for alternatives to that, I’m just curious.  Besides, if eating say, 27 red skittles a day might help keep it from coming back, I’d be silly not to try it, right?

Mike is going back to work on November 2nd; I’ll probably start going back into the office for a couple hours a day next week.  I’m sure a good amount of my time will still need to be with my leg elevated for awhile each day, so I’m going to take it slow.  Besides, I’m not so much looking forward to going into work, what with how slow it is and all the changes I’ve had to make, but I know I need to Captain the Ship, so to speak.

This weekend should bring a trip to the pumpkin patch, the last soccer game and putting up halloween decorations (SO far behind!).  I’m looking forward to a life more ordinary.