Monday, Monday.....

As much as i love snow (okay, as much as i like looking at snow thru the windows of my warm home...), i have to confess that i am cold. It was 19 degrees this morning when i took my girl to school this morning. I have never been so grateful and thankful that we have a garage (I really should clean out a spot so my husband can park in the garage, too..). It is pretty outside, but I am pretty much over it. I had to laugh this morning when my girl came down stairs with her snowman earrings on; she thinks that if she wears those snowman earrings, it will snow again and school will be let out early. You know, like it did this past Friday. I will say this, if wearing those snowman earrings of hers does that, i am going to wear little sunshine earrings daily...

As i get older, i see myself picking up more and more of my grandmother's and my mother's traits. I feed the birds now, just like she did. I act like she did in that i am convinced the birds will starve if i don't feed them. I can't imagine how our neighborhood birds survived till i came along to feed and make sure that they had water. I tell you, as i get older, i get more disturbing. The fact that i use to giggle at how my Grandmother fed the birds is also bothersome. I am willing to bet that this is what is called "Karma" happening to me as i am sure my little daughter rolls her eyes at me as i use to do at my Grandmother when i insist on filling the bird feeders if it's too cold (or too hot, or too windy or too 'whatever') outside.

I am looking forward to our Spring Break....we are going on a cruise! All three of us!! We've not been on a cruise yet as a family, so it's time to do it. While my first choice would have been a Disney Cruise, this cruise line is the next best thing. I've only been on one cruise and that was over 20 years ago....looking at the boat (or ship) that we'll be on and all of the cool things to do is A.W.E.S.O.M.E. I'm willing to bet that e will have an amazing, fun time! Of course, a cruise is not Italy or Spain, i am still looking forward to getting some really good photos and just relaxing.

It cannot possibly be time to get into the car and pick up e....where does my day go?

Snow and other thoughts....

It's in the forecast for us to have a "dusting" or so of snow this evening. What that means for our area is that people completely lose their minds and the rest of the country laughs and makes jokes about snow in the south. I don't think that most Northerners understand that we truly can't really drive in an inch of snow, and we don't have snow plows or salt trucks to make our driving even more epic. While i would love to grab my camera and go out shooting photos of the snow, i know better. Heck, i have a hard enough time driving in the rain, so i just stay put. If i can't walk to shoot photos, i just watch from my back porch and take photos of my girl and dog from there.

I did manage to get to the grocery store early this morning as i was out of a lot of necessary items....you know, like toilet paper, milk, and bread (these are the items that ALL Southerners need in the event of a snow threat, btw). Had i really been thinking, i would have bought some wine to get me thru a snow-day. The sad part is that i'm not a drinker, although i think it may help my personality if i was. I could turn myself from a quiet, non-social kinda gal to hip and fun and very social kinda gal! Who am i kidding? After just one drink, i am ready for a nap, so i can pretty much forget about changing my personality with wine. One must be totally awake to change their personality, yes?

School hasn't been called out yet for early release or no school tomorrow. Let's just keep our fingers crossed that doesn't happen. My girl loves school and i don't think i am up for a day of whining about how she wants to be at school with her friends and not home with me because, well, i'll make her help with chores (which, apparently, when you are nine years old is just not a "fun time"). I truly think my daughter believes that i just hang out all day, having fun, playing with the dog and eating cookies till it's time to pick her up from school. I had to laugh when she asked me one day "Who changed the sheets on the beds?". My Mommy-like sarcasm came out and said, "Oh, you didn't know that we have laundry fairies?". I really need to let up with that sarcasm thing because it's not really funny unless she gets it....and i hate wasted sarcasm.

I only made one New Year's Resolution instead of my usual 15---> that i totally give up on in two weeks. No more of the "to get healthy this year" or "lose weight this year" or to "exercise more" and my favorite: "To eat healthy this year!". I finally figured out that those resolutions are pretty vague--and that's why they never last more than two weeks. So, this year, i'm going to "Resolute" to write daily. Whether on the blog or in my notebook, i am going to write daily. It can be writing about nothing but thoughts or about something i'm working on; either way, i am going to write daily. I don't have to write pages, but i need to spend at least 30 minutes on this. Usually, i don't have earth-shattering things to write about, but it's not really about that. It's about having an outlet. It's about clearing the mind. It's about just, well, writing.

I did start something life changing this past month....i had a sleep study done and lo, and behold, i have sleep apnea. That could explain why i drag myself out of bed, feeling like i've not slept or even worse, not getting out of bed at all. This ccap machine has changed my life. I wake up and my brain isn't still asleep. I drive my girl to school, and i don't need to take a 3 hour nap afterwards. I actually get things done and i actually am productive. How i wish i had done this sleep study thing earlier! Before, i was ready for bed at 6pm (seriously, who is ready for bed at 6pm???). Now, i go to sleep around 10pm and i am up at 6am. How amazing is that?!?! No more fog head. No more dragging around. No more wondering what in the heck was wrong with me. Apparently, it's really not a good thing not being able to breathe when you sleep. I was having approximately 20 episodes of not breathing while sleeping, which totally screws up that REM sleep that is so important. So, this ccap machine is the best thing ever.

Ahh, my 30 minutes are up. Time to get dinner into the crockpot and pray to the Virgin Mary for no snow and no snow day. :)