Errand Day

Well, its starting to be cruch time re: the Happy Hula 6th b-day party...that seems to have developed a life of its own and is growing by leaps and bounds. So far, no one has said they are not coming. Gulp. I had figured most would not come from her class since we're not such a tight group, but that does not seem to be the case. Looks like I'll finally be meeting alot of the parents, which is a good thing. However, alot have not RSVP'd yet, so there's still a chance of regrets.

So far, 10 of the 19 girls and 5 of the 13 boys invited to the party have stated that they are coming. That puts my numbers for moms and other adult friends at 18 of 35...assuming no one brings their husband or other kids...which I understand can happen. Oy. I've tried to guard against that buy clearly stating in the invitation that it is also a "mom's day out tiki cocktail party". I have no objection if a dad brings the kid, its just that if both come my numbers will explode.

As I've stated previously, I'm not going to obsess on it. Our numbers are perfect right now, for the perfect party. If more come, the more the merrier (I keep manicly repeating to myself over and over again like some crazed zen chant).

My house is, if fact, being painted as we speak. That was a long time coming. It had been over 10 years since the last paint job. What was so bad is that the last painter ripped me off with the pressure cleaning. I could have done as good a job with my garden hose and the nozzle set to jet stream. The result of that 10 years later is that the east and west walls of my house were in total peel...of epic proportions. The front of my house (north facing) was peeling as well, albeit not as badly. Currently? My house is basically nude. The current painter used some type of super-sonic pressure cleaner and I couldn't be happier. He's busy today fixing all the cracks and caulking windows, and paint will be applied starting monday.

Today, we have a big costco run on the agenda. Plan is to buy the booze for the mai tais, the soda/juice/water, and the chips.

All I can say is thank god for my IRS return...which was conveniently deposited into my account yesterday. What with T's bday falling at the end of march, her parties are sponsored by the IRS.

Happy Saturday, everyone!

Beautiful Morning

...to plant some flowers. T was assisting and having a fab time.

Miscellaneous Nothings

My little diva. She insists on wearing her fluffy bathrobe everyday after her bath...along with the towel on her head.

Hmm, I probably should get her some fluffy slippers. Maybe I'll look around for some for her birthday!
Meanwhile, it may take me a while, but I usually get around to doing something. I have FINALLY put a picture in this FABULOUSLY, STUPENDOUSLY cute frame aunt Ceci sent us...it may be years ago, now.

Finally got around to buying that command tape stuff, to stick it on the wall. Love it!
My granny's old furniture is coming along. We're in the middle of giving it all a bit of a facelift, and spray painting it all white.

I'm liking how its turning out!
Lastly, I leave you with a pic of our butterfly box, that we made at color me mine.

T loves it and keeps her coins in it, next to her bed.

I think we did a pretty darn good job!

Where has time gone?

Where in the world did this week go?

Since I was sick last week, I've been super busy at work. Plus, I had to take off this week to take care of parent business issues. Nothing big, just time consuming. And it just doesn't stop. Luckily, my mom is doing as well as can be expected health-wise. She seemed in good spirits this morning, but then she'd just had a "shot". (a prolonged sniff of oxygen). I think I need one of those machines, too, for a little pick-me-up.

What with being sick and just plain tired, I've fallen off of my exercise bike regimen, so to speak. I'm bound and determined to start up again. Maybe this weekend.

On an upnote, people are responding to and evite invitation I sent out for T's birthday party. Its all every exciting. We're up to about 10 families who state they will attend. So, looks like its shaping up. We couldn't be more happy.

So, we're going to attempt to have a relaxing weekend, and shore up our reserves for the weeks to come. Boy having fun can be tiring!

Midnight Madness

We are up, awake, and eating cookies and milk. Why?

That would be because when we got home this evening, T went into her room and fell asleep. From about 7:00 p.m to 11:30, when she came into my room and got in bed with me. And then proceeded to toss and turn.

So, we got up and she got a much-needed bath. She was a mess and I am secretly glad that we will not be attempting to take one in the morning. With all the painting we were doing, T was covered with a fine layer of dark espresso-colored dots from the spray paint. Face dirty, hair dirty, fingernails dirty, etc. Now, at least she's clean, although still sporting some dots.

We're having a couple milano cookies and milk, and then hopefully I can get her to bed again.

The morning promises to be interesting!

What was I waiting for?

Seriously. What the hell was I waiting for????

Long time readers of this blog recall that I threw my back out and herniated 3 discs almost 5 years ago, at the tail end of my maternity leave. Since then, i've had back problems, and found that one of the only chairs in my house that I can sit in, was the glider. It was moved to my living room.

Problem is, the glider was white, and my living room is full of dark espresso brown furniture. Today, I took the bull by the horns, FINALLY, and bought a few cans of spray paint. I did the footstool first, to see how it would turn out, and LOVE IT!!

I bought some extra paint tonight, and will be doing the chair first thing in the morning.

What We've been Up To

On Friday, I also was able to score some cute things for T's room. She is the happy new owner of a Peacock blue shag carpet. Its not showing too well here in the pic, but its really pretty and vibrant in person. Very much a "big girl" rug. Problem is, that in comparison to the old carpet, which was mostly a light pink, her brown furniture looks too dark. It looks much better with white furniture, as you can see here.

So, my granny's old furniture is slated for a reno job. It needs it anyway, b/c the finish on the dresser is so bad. Cardboard boxes had been filed on it at my parents' house, and the cardboard paper stuck to the surface. So, Leonors son will sand and paint it all for me.
The second big purchase was obtained from the container store. I could spend days in that store. Anyway, T has taken to taping photos of friends to her wall next to her bed...with like 9 pieces of tape each. I decided to get her some magnet boards (the pink flowers) and two dry erase boards, that's purpose is to hold photos and such. T is very excited about it all, and claims that she is now a cool girl. She even slept in her own bed last night!

Here's a quick shot of T playing twister, one of her favorites. She's playing with Princess Tiana, here.
And here's a pic of one of her latest purchases from Claires. For some reason, she's taken a shine to sleeping masks, and this one was just too cute. The eyelashes have glitter on them.

Too cute!

It's A MIRACLE!!!

HALLLL-LE-LU-YAH! HALLL-LE-LU-YAH! HA-LE-E-LU-YAH!!!!!

My fever is gone!!

Popped the first two antibiotics at 4:00 p.m. yesterday, and my fever steadily decreased throughout the night. Woke up and it was gone. Its like I'm a changed woman! Still have some of the other symptoms, but they are much lessened. What the heck did people do before antibiotics?

Since I was feeling so much better, I had a big day. I had been planning on taking off a couple days next week to run errands and accomplish some other things without T around, but now I really don't have the luxury of taking more time off, given all the work I missed this week. So, I did some running around today.

The biggest thing I did was buy T's birthday presents. A quick stop into the toy store, and I'm done! Let's just say its going to be a Barbie Birthday when it comes to presents. I snagged the following, one of which will be from my parents:

• Barbie Cash Register (T's learning about $$ at school)
• Barbie Rain Umbrella
• Asian Barbie
• Shimmer, Glimmer and Shyne (From Barbie's fashion fairytale)
• Mario/donkey kong DS game

They are all now squirrelled away in my closet, hidden from sight.

We're now home watching Megamind, and all is right in our world once more!

I Scored Drugs!!

WoooHooo! Went to my doc, who is a TOTAL MISER when it comes to dispensing antibiotics. Not today, though. She was very concerned that my symptoms started with immediate fever and cough low in chest for 3 days, then moved up to my nose...versus starting in the nose and moving to the chest and then developing a fever. Says my symptoms are more dangerous, therefore was prescribing a zpack of antibiotics. I think she was worried about possible pnemonia...which I do not have as of yet!

I also got an oral steroid, to knock the asthma out of my lungs. In addition to sudafed, multivitamin and advil. So I'm basically popping pills right and left. And I'm not a pill popper, so this is a major PITA. Luckily, the incentive to feel better is huge, so I'm grinning and bearing it.

Just checked, and my fever remains. 99.8 Doc said it will probably take a couple more days to kick it, so I'm home tomorrow and this weekend. Luckily, its Megamind weekend (the dvd releases tomorrow in stores), so T and I will be having movie night and game night. No painting the town red for us!

Getting worse

Yep, I seem to be getting worse, not better. Now, on top of my ever present fever and cough, I have a full-blown nose action going on. Chest is much worse, too. I think its pretty clear that my asthma has been triggered, and just feel miserable. 4th frickin' day of unrelenting fever.



I'm trying to get in to see the doc today, otherwise I'll drop in on some unsuspecting urgent care center.



Only high point is that T is OK...for now.