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Did I mention my birthday was last week? Today is also my mom’s birthday. She’s complaining about feeling old and all that stuff. Truth is, I haven’t felt so great since my birthday. It’s like I’m attempting to come down with what everyone else has, but it won’t just hit and then get over with. I’d much rather suffer with all the symptoms for a couple days and then be on the mend. Instead, it’s like one day I’ll have this and the next I’ll have a bit of that and so on. Today, I was for sure I had strep coming on. Actually, for a few days I’ve felt that. Today was bad in the morning throat wise, and now I just feel like I’ve been hit by a bus all over.

Maybe I actually am feeling older? Did you know that once my birthday hit this year I was told my life insurance rates were going to go up? Geesh! I’m only 34!! I guess it could be worse, I could be in my 50’s and having a hard time getting insurance. Thankfully, we are covered. Any additional coverage needs to be added in the next couple years just to ensure good rates I believe!

Yeah, the day my mother birthed me. I’m 34 years old as of January 28th at about 6:00 am. I didn’t do anything special. I slept until normal time, got up, took the kid to school, got some much needed coffee on my way home, and then watched Teen Mom that was taped from the night before. Later we headed out to get cake at Meijer because it’s really delicious, but I wanted a double layer so we headed to the local bakery and got picked up white on white cake and some cookies. Fun stuff huh? It is also bitter freaking cold here but we managed to head to the park and look for Joe and John the two fat squirrels that Sydney wanted to feed french fries to.

You’d think that my birthday would be a perfect reminder to take advantage of a free life insurance quote, but I’ve been too busy to act on it. Maybe next week when things slow down. Saturday we’ll head out of town for lunch with my in-laws and celebration of mine and my mother in laws birthdays. We’re driving separate cars so that I can shop after, always a plus. Sunday? A kid free day. I’m heading out of town again for lunch with the husband and to hit up a craft store I’m dying to go to!

On Monday I should be very full and fairly shopped out!

I have been so busy this week. I really neglected some things I needed to get done while I was doing what I wanted to be doing. And the things I wanted to do? Sydney’s room. We’ve finished painting. Now we have 3 pink walls and one white with coordinating border. At first the room looked terrible, but it’s starting to come together a bit. I plan on working on it a lot tomorrow.

I also tinkered with the site this week. I kinda had to, kinda wanted to, really needed to. I wanted to come up with a new layout, but I had already neglected some dishes and getting auto insurance quotes for our two vehicles. I figured I better get back to business before it all piled up on me.

And with that said I’m exhausted. I’ve got another fun day of redoing her room tomorrow, but I am so looking forward to putting all her junk back in her room and reclaiming the living room for myself! I see no end in sight. I’ve decided the bathroom is next!!!!

Most parents have to limit what their kid eats, not us. We can’t get her to eat enough. She’s shrinking, I swear it! I do have to argue with her to get her to eat meals with the exception of breakfast. Everyone says it is because of medication she takes and that just isn’t the case. She will pick and choose what she wants to eat so it’s not a matter of not being able to eat. It’s a matter of not liking textures and not liking meats at all. She’s so finicky with meat it’s not even funny, she also hates red sauces.

She will however put away the candy and chips if she’s able to. I’ve gotten to the point that if she eats a meal I do let her snack on whatever she wants, she’s a huge fan of yogurt, but she’s a huge fan of doritos as well. If I ate as much chips and candy as she does I’d be looking for the world’s strongest fat burner and hoping it worked. However, if I can get a decent dinner in her I do let her have ice cream or candy and or whatever else she wants as a snack in hopes that it puts on some pounds. Don’t get me wrong, I watch it and would never let her make herself sick or anything.

I’m so bored. Waiting for American Idol to come on tonight. I just love that show. No matter how many seasons it is on it never gets old making fun of those goofs who can’t sing and think they can. Now, don’t get me wrong I feel for some of them that are sweet and all, but when they come in all like I’m the stuff and then sound like a cat in heat it cracks me up.

Some of them annoy me though. There was one who called himself skiboski and I would rather have a colon and body cleanse then to look at him again. He was so full of himself. Turned out later that they didn’t do a great background check on him and he had some trouble with the police in Florida. They speculated he was mental or something like that, so turns out he is an actual pain in the rear.

It’s almost my birthday. I’ll be in my 30’s. It kinda stinks. I feel like I’m always getting younger, mind and soul, body not so much. I don’t see many wrinkles or spots on my face, I sometimes think I feel them though. Currently, I don’t own any anti aging products, but I’m thinking I need something just to be preventative.

When you run into someone from school that looks like they haven’t aged a day since 16, you really start to second guess yourself. Come on, it’s just flat out genetics for some people and I realize that, but I’m contemplating asking next time. I’ll suck it up and just go hey, how to you stay so darn young looking? Are you slathering yourself in crisco every night before bed to keep yourself all moist like a turkey baking in my oven? Or did you sell your soul to the devil?

I’ve spent the morning attempting to catch up on emails. It’s something I desperately needed to do instead of reading a blogs and surfing goofy sites. I did pretty good, I’m down to where I needed to be at. I had two emails waiting to be replied to and one was from my cousin. I slack, but I weeded out everything before that and am at the email, so I’m making progress. The only time I got side tracked was to read an appetite suppressant review which took only a few minutes.

Do you have the email problem like I do? I only belong to a couple of mailing things, but it all seems to pile up. It’s not like I’m getting the joke of the day, the quote of the day, the recipe of the day, or anything like that. I get a few mailings from my favorite stores telling me about sales and products, that’s it though. I can’t honestly figure out how it piles in my inbox, except that I seem to ignore it constantly.

Have you ever noticed that you can be in pain, excruciating pain, and if you have no diagnosis you still have some peace of mind? It wasn’t until I got my diagnosis that I started to feel some overwhelming feelings. I guess I was under the assumption that I’d be able to take some magic pill and it would fix me. I have to say it’s bad news, but it could be worse.

My biggest fear was having to undergo some type of hip arthritis treatment. My hip was hurting so bad, but turns out it was radiating from my back, or spine I suppose. My spine is shot. It’s not going to get better and I have to attend physical therapy to work with what I have going on now. Hopefully strengthening my core will help a lot. I have absolutely no strength in that area at all. To turn from my right so I had to wiggle around out of bed. Getting off the floor is a task that is hilarious and hurtful. I almost threw up from the pain this weekend after trying to get off the floor.

Unfortunately the therapy hurts too. Other things the doc threw out there were finding the right pain meds for me and putting in an epidural block in the spine. Fun Fun.

Right now, I’m exhausted. It’s been a whirlwind since Christmas was over. I guess I was under some assumption that when the holidays stopped the madness would calm down. Not so. We’ve had two deaths, which meant two callings, two funerals, and lots of emotions…all since Christmas. Those events in themselves have been draining. Pile on top of that the daily going ons of this family and I can’t hardly keep up!

I did take some time to go out with my best friend last week. We exchanged our presents late, as we always do year after year. We sat and ate lunch for a while, shared quick weight loss tips with each other, and then headed out for some much needed shopping. Very relaxing, although I wish I had more money to spend at the craft store. I’m hoping to get my online business going this year with a little help from the friend I mentioned above, but to make money you always have to spend money!

My first day of physical therapy was today. It was sort of crappy because I had to get Sydney up and ready, myself up and ready, and get us both to school and therapy by 8:15. I was about 5 minutes late. They don’t love that, but since it was my first day they were not too hard on me. It was just evaluation. The upside is that I’m doing water therapy for the most part so I’m super excited about getting into the pool next week, just me and a physical therapist one on one. If I can’t find an adequate suit by then I’m going to suck it up and do the shorts and tshirt thing, and look like an old lady the entire time.

You know it is the top of January here. Bathing suits are not that easy to come by at the moment. Making matters worse for me was the fact that it was January 4th and very, very cold this morning. None of us wanted to move, and Sydney just got off of a two week vacation from school so she was lagging to say the least. Somehow we made it though. I swear after last year we need a nice vacation to get relaxed and revived.

You’ll think I’m nuts, but my idea vacation is a ski vacation. Yes, it’s cold and snowy here, but I’m not sitting at a lodge sipping hot cocoa am I? I’m not looking out at mountains and snapping photos…not just yet!