My pup has been sick

My poor son has been sick for a little over a week now. He'll get better, and no fever, then he'll get fever again. I don't know what it is, but we're going to the doctor on Monday (hopefully they can get us in!) just to see what's going on. He's rarely sick, in fact, I think this is the first time in a year or over a year that he's been sick so I guess we were bound for an illness at some point. I feel bad for him because I can tell he's getting cabin fever and ready to be out and about and if he didn't have fever, I would take him out for a bit.

Not sure where he got it from or when but you can never tell with kids. They're always passing around germs even when we don't know it. It's amazing when you think about all the surfaces that they touch that we don't know about. Not to mention coming into contact with kids with runny noses and coughs. You just can't keep them from getting what they're going to get. I used to get all vexed when Simon was around a child that "could" be sick, you know the kids with the snotty noses and coughs that seem to always be there, but no matter what, the germs will still be there. Okay now if someone brought their child around with a KNOWN illness, yeah, I'd be ticked off, but ALL of us parents, and I don't care who you are, have taken your children out with runny noses, and coughs when you don't think they're contagious or over their illness, you can't help it sometimes!

So our week and part of last week was dealt with fever and now we're dealing with cough. I have a slight cough myself but I know for a fact mine is due to the weather change, I always deal with this. I think I have really bad allergies and probably should be on a daily allergy medicine, but I hate taking medicines, especially one you have to take daily. My pup on the other hand, never has anything so I'm not convinced his is allergies. I feel bad for my MIL though because she's been stuck in doors for weeks it seems and even she got a little bit of a head cold.

On another note...my job is almost up and running. I'm waiting on our phone line to be completed. They came over here and semi installed it but something else needed to be done. Also, I need a few more accessories then I'll be ready. I have to say, right now, I'm not too excited because I'm getting very little sleep waking up checking on Simon and checking his temp so I'm not all that thrilled at working right now, but I gotta do what I gotta do!

I'm bored.

I'm so damn bored. I finally got my WAHM job that I wanted and what the hell am I doing? Looking at crap on the internet rather than completing my background check and checking what I need to install. I'm so pathetic. I think I'm really waiting for my real break. You know, when I win the lottery. I know I'm so lucky that I don't even have to buy a lottery ticket but once and I'll win, I'm just putting it off so I can live in no money hell.

Speaking of money...how the hell can these people on HGTV afford $500,000 1200sq. ft. homes? Does everyone outside of Texas make a huge amount of money? They say it like it's no big deal..."Well I know our budget is going to limit us. Our price range is between $400,000 and $500,000 so I know we're going to have to make some compromises." Seriously?!?!? What the hell!?

One person

Ahhhh this blog is going to help me get out a little bit of frustration so here it goes.

I'm really tired of ONE person being able to ruing things for everyone else. Whether it be a mood, a way of doing things, prayer in school whatever, it sucks that ONE person can bring it down. There are many examples I can give of this personal and not but one such example is in our little towns elections.

We have a wonderful Gmail group for our neighborhood. It's run by a gentleman that can be a smart ass but is hilarious and he's taken it upon himself to start this group for us. It's always a wealth of information regarding upcoming community events, lost animals, a place to sell your things, crime etc...and I consider it invaluable to our small community. Unfortunately ONE woman who seems to have taken things the wrong way and has thrown a hissy fit has threatened to unravel the group. She is a mayoral candidate and the man who runs our unofficial HOA website had put up for all of us to go and meet the candidates. This chick didn't include herself so when she heard that we had a "meet and greet" she accused our little group of being a PAC and that we can be penalized.

Of course this changed everything and a disclaimer had to be added. It really ticks me off how ONE woman can take things completely the wrong way and start bitching and threatening. I have little to no patience for people like that because it's their own insecurities and issues that they reflect on everyone else and ruin things. This woman did no favors to herself or her campaign. Rather than just takes things on the chin and say "Hi, sorry I wasn't apart of the last meet & greet, but I'd like to introduce myself" she decided she was going to throw a hissy fit and make herself look like an ass therefore, she's losing votes. I sent her an email telling her so and why.

Okay...off my high horse.

Poor little Simon & I have been sick but we're on the mend, I'm just taking it easy this weekend and we're going to have to postpone the rodeo and family thing till next weekend. Next weekend is going to be a party the whole time!

This week...

This week has been interesting already. I've dealt with drama, joy, and lack of sleep. Lack of sleep is the worst of the three LOL. For some reason, my dear baby boy has decided NOT to sleep. He's taking over an hour to get to bed, then we hear "mama, I have to go pee", "mama, can you come tuck me in?", "mama, are you gonna cuddle with me?". MAMA MAMA MAMA MAMA MAMA!!!!!

I don't know what his problem is but I bet it has something to do with his Nana being here. I think he feels like he's going to miss something while she's here so he'd rather not sleep. Also, he's scared of "monsters". How in the world do you deal with this? I've tried the "monster spray" and praying and showing him what's in his closet and nothing is helping. I'm kind of at a loss here and him sleeping with us or vice versa is not an option. I've done my share of sleeping with him and it's not comfortable in the least!

I'm hoping and praying that tomorrow, he'll at least sleep until 7am, but with my luck, it's school tomorrow so he'll sleep in until 8:30. Tomorrow is his Valentines day party and I have to say, I suck at being a prepared parent. I just found out that Valentines Day cards were needed so now I have to get my happy ass out the door at 8am to go to Dollar General to buy Valentines cards and cut up some apples all before 8:30am. I need to get my ass in gear and pay attention to it all before he starts real school but his "school" is with a yahoo group which I completely don't understand. I'm a creature of habit and I like forums whereas google and yahoo groups are not set up like forums so you see post.post.post.post. rather than a post where all of the conversations are in one, you have to close. open. close. open to read it all. Yeah I know I'm being picky but hey, this is my damn blog so I can pick if I want to. And I must put a disclaimer...this is NOT anything against anyone who started the group, this is just MY opinion just as I don't like our HOA group on google. I like forums ;o)

So what else is in for this week...Thursday not sure what's going on then and Friday, another Valentines Day party (these are getting costly, someone in the valentines industry is sure making it's money on kids parties, that's for damn sure). Oh wait...Thursday, my family comes in!!! I get to see my mama, daddy, sister and niece!!! I cannot wait to see them, I haven't seen them since November so it's about time. Simon for sure is ready to see them. Saturday we're going to take my MIL to a rodeo and I'm sure my sister and I are gonna get into some trouble there. Anywhere there is beer and cowboys, my sister & I WILL be in trouble.

On this morning...

On this morning, I am thankful for my family and friends. I just woke up with this feeling of being grateful. My parents and sisters are awesome and are always there for me no matter what and I have a group of friends here who have been awesome friends for almost two years and I'm not sure what I'd do without them. I don't know why I'm so reflective today, I hope I'm not dying! LOL

Anyway...enough mush. Last night was an awesome night! Dh & I went to the gun range and have some Indian food with our friends and had a great time! This was the first time I actually shot my 9mm and Dh was right, once you start shooting, you don't want to stop. I think we went through 86 rounds so needless to say, we need to buy more bullets. Dh wanted me to shoot the Mossberg 12 gauge and I said HELL NO! I saw him shoot it and when I saw that first burst of fire (flames and all) that put me off it big time. The blast was so loud that people came looking to see what kind of gun it was. All I know is if a burglar comes in our house and hears the unmistakable sound of that thing being prepped for shooting...they'll shit their pants and for good reason. There's no way someone would live if that thing got someone, so thieves better think twice about going into homes, you never know who's got one!

I also got to shoot our friends AK-47 and some other bad ass shot gun, one that I would love to get for Christmas or birthday. I'm glad we had our friends with us because they're really knowledgeable about guns and were able to help me along when I was shooting. One thing that wasn't so good is that I'm so damn short, I gotta learn how to aim better because I'm shooting more in the gut and penis area rather than the heart and head. I hope I never have to shoot anyone but if a thief is breaking into our house and I'm the one who shoots, his chances are pretty high that it's his dick that will be blown off.

Today...what am I gonna do today? A whole helluva lot of nothing! My MIL is making a lovely roast dinner, and I'm going to cut coupons and catch up on some much needed sleep, this time with the bed ALL to myself.

Hopefully this week will be productive, last week wasn't at all so I have to get up and get myself going. My family is coming in on Thursday so I'm so excited to see them all! We're going to have us some BBQ and go to the San Antonio Rodeo on Saturday. My MIL cannot wait to see a real rodeo. She's becoming a Texan and I doubt she'll be recognizable when she gets back to England.

Okay...gonna go cut me some coupons and get back to sleep!