It has been a most fun and glorious few days. Shall I share it with you? I shall!

First off...all those things I said a couple of posts back about Dr. McDreamy the McChiropractor? I was sitting in the waiting room, in EXTREME scream pain...but being quiet I might add...and for some reason I am thinking about he and his wife (who I love to death...she is so sweet she would give you a cavity just when she smiles...and no, I am not a lesbian)...how they go home to KC to visit family every chance they get...his practice has built up very quickly just in the 3 years that we have known him...what brought them to this neck of the woods to settle anyway...wondered if they were going to start a family (after all, she is 29 already)...and if they ever think about moving back home.

I get into the 'treatment' room, he is all grins. I lay face down on the table as instructed...but first he looks like a little kid on Christmas morning...and says, "I have something I want to tell you!" (I'm starting to feel a little uncomfortable). He straps my feet to the end of the table (what the HECK?) Then he starts to tell me all the details of he and his wife selling his practice to go back to KC..where there is a brand new office waiting for him...and they want to start a family where they are around their families...(whew!) All the while he is talking, he has this table in motion...it bends in half and goes up and down like a bucking bronco in slo-mo...stretching my back muscles and it is all I can do NOT to scREAM! But, hey...I heard every word he said. And it was awesome...how everything fell into place for them...and even though I was in pain I began to laugh and he stopped...I said, "so NOW I understand why all that stuff was running through my head in the waiting room!" and I proceeded to tell him my thot pattern. He laughed too and said, "yeah...it's crazy all the stuff like that that has happened. I'm tellin' ya...this is definitely the right move." We will miss them but I am really happy for them. They are so very nice! He said the guy that bought his practice and is coming in is a lot like him. (oh great I hope he doesn't feel the need to touch while talking )

****** My son did his Tuesday act this morning instead. Gotta start early to miss the rush (I don't know what that means). Not that I believe he conciously does it on purpose...but it is the same thing. And then there is the cell phone arguments while he is on his way to school...and how much I don't care about him...I'm not trying to get it...yada yada...and then when he comes home it is all good. YOu know what I want for Christmas? I want to see someone smile at me in the morning, give me a nice hug, and just be pleasant. It really doens't cost anything. It's easy...but apparently not for some ppl.

And now I'm off like a dirty shirt...I have other...um...things to deal with.

It is no wonder I whine...but...I will not blame my mood on someone else. I can either choose to let it get to me or laugh. I think I will laugh now...otherwise anyone else that comes across my path today doesn't stand a chance. Instant pile of ashes.

And the academy award goes to....

I'm not sure. Neither one of my kids put on a good enuff performance this morning to turn me into a puddle. All they did was make me roll my eyes and feel irritated. My daughter starts with whining that she supposedly didn't get any sleep last night. I looked at her and said, "Yes, you did. I heard you snoring." She came climbing into my bed in the middle of the night yapping something about she woke up and couldn't get back to sleep. If that was true I'm sure she was laying there trying to think of some way to get me to let her stay home from school. THEN, she sat at the breakfast table and started crying cuz she couldn't quit yawning? What the heck? I just shrugged and said, "At least you won't die from lack of oxygen!" wow. If looks could kill I'd be a pile of ashes. Then of course I proceeded to tell her about the first 5 months of her life...how she liked to sleep all day and be awake all night. Her dad was away at school (not that it would have made any difference), her brother didn't want to go to bed...EVER...and I still had to be at school everyday the next day and be energetic enuff to deal with students...and other teachers asked me how I did it...I told them what I told my daughter, "Just don't think about it. You tell yourself it is something that has to be done and you do it." I also pointed out that at least she could come home after school and take a nap...a luxury I was not afforded.

Then the other one...I swear to gawd if he moved any slower he'd be backing up into last week! I've seen turtles with molasses on their feet move faster. And the 'ouch!" and grimaces and "my back is killing me!" and "I feel like I got punched in the stomach". I told him at least he could live through back pain. I am living proof. Again with the look that could kill. I just am on everyone's chit list this morning.

The only caveat this morning is that I don't have to listen to the other one coughing his lungs out after a morning smoke and THEN hear the angry out bursts about what he is hearing on the news.

When we were first married, we both got up at the same time in the morning...I take that back...I got up FIRST and took my shower right away...so he could lay in bed a little longer...and we got ready for work and left for our jobs at the same time. In the meantime, he would turn on the morning news and then follow me around the apartment with one angry diatribe after another about what he was hearing on the news. It drove me nuts! (so, that should explain a lot right there! ) I finally told him he was NOT allowed to turn on the news in the morning before work cuz I could not stand to listen to him and that anger before work. He got me all nerved up and in a crap mood that would take me all the way to school to shake...and I had to shake it becuz I had classes full of students that came to school with their own moods caused by crappy home lives and other mental problems and I had to be calm and positive to help them feel better. So, for a while, he quit.

I am not Mary Sunshine in the morning. I don't get up with a big smile on my face. I need a few minutes of quiet and some coffee. Yet, I am not a grump, either. I can be pleasant...as long as I don't have to put up with instant grump...whine...wah...

And now I will finish my coffee, take a few moments to enjoy the sunshine, stretch, smile, listen to some pleasant music...and aaaahhhhh. And tonight I will pull out the Christmas stuff...after I get my classwork done today.

I hope you all have a pleasant day. Just try to stay out of the malls unless you are wearing bullet proof vests and are packing some kind of protection (i.e. a stun gun). Pay attention to who/what is around you, lock your doors, yada yada...

Even though yesterday started out not so good with TJ, it ended up btter. He finally opened up about a few things and we talked through them. He still has to learn how to deal with some stuff and where to draw lines and what to be able to shrug off and not give so much emphasis. His counselor is beginning work with him on that.

We got some snow and it is still coming down. The schools are on two hour delay. I won't be taking Bethany into school right away. Her school will open at 9:30 and I would be taking her out at 9:50 for a med check up appt...so there is no use taking her until after the doctor appt. is over. TJ will be leaving for school just before I take her to the doctor's. They are really good about keeping the freeway clear and de-iced between here and his school. So he should be okay. His first winter driving experience. (* guess he won't be getting his first experience with it today...after I posted this the first time, the JVS school he goes to decided to just close for the whole day. So he gets the day off, but Bethany still has to go)

Well...since I have a few hours of peace and quiet for myself...I am going to go take advantage. I think my classwork will be on two hour delay this morning as well. I have been sleeping like a rock lately, which is good. I feel better when I do wake up in the morning...not as tired...and it helps me make it through the day, since I don't have time for even a 10 minute power nap (those are good!). However, I had the worst time keeping my eyes open in my Industrial Safety and Health class last night. I still managed to learn some things about fire...NOT my favorite subject. I have nightmares about ppl catching on fire. It is another weird glitch in my make up.

And I am feeling a bit off physically. I was too busy yesterday and only managed to grab two slices of toast half-way thru my day. And thru a series of unplanned for events, I didn't get near food again until after 9 last night when I got back from classes. I had left the ingredients, utensils needed and recipe for my kids to make lobster bisque (the poor man's version). I had to add milk to mine becuz even though my son swears he put the milk AND cream in, it looked too thick...like he DIDN'T put the milk in. The only thing I did manage to do for them was bake some rolls. Oh, well. They had warm food and they ate it. He'll learn.