Do broken cookies count???

This Weight Watchers thing is tough sometimes. Like right now... tough. I think that broken cookies (or pretzels or other bite sized items) shouldn't count. Surely there must be some affect on the calorie content when they break. What's really bad is that if this were true I can envision myself with a heavy object beating the calories out of the Chips Ahoy that are calling my name from the pantry. I wanna eat a cookie.

Zombies, zombies everywhere

Well, we didn't get to go to the Zombie Farm on Saturday night because Clair had a case of bad attitude (brought on by the ihateeverything teenage years). She didn't even know that we were going to go because I was planning to surprise her anyway. I just can't justify rewarding bad attitude.

We did however get to go tonight. I don't do scary usually. I just went because I knew she wanted to go. I got ticked off at the ticket counter because I printed a coupon from their website for $2 off admission and when I gave it to the ticket guy he said that I needed two copies of it in order to get two discounts which I think is ridiculous considering all I had to do was print it from my computer. Anyway... we go into the first door and two "hogs" jump out to scare us. Then the guide told us to go through the next door which we did but when he went to close the door behind us Clair went freaky on me and said that she wasn't going to go in without him. I tried to talk her into it but she absolutely refused. She decided maybe she doesn't do scary either. So, we go out to the van to leave after paying $16 and not even going in. I call her dad to tell him we're headed home and I ask him to talk to her about it and she decided to go in again. We went back in and she actually enjoyed it. I tried not to pay too much attention to things since I don't do scary but it was well done if that's what you like. It had a theme of an old lady at the front door asking you to help find her children and scary kids really creep me out. I always got creeped out by Children of the Corn when I saw it too. It's just something about the whole creepy kid thing.

Too tired to knit???

I was so tired last night when I sat down to knit and watch ST:DS9 that I fell asleep before we even finished 1 episode and I only knit about 3 rows on the baby bib I'm making from Mason-Dixon Knitting. How could I have been too tired to knit? I fall asleep all the time trying to watch TV and movies but usually I don't fall asleep knitting. It isn't very safe either... can you imagine the ringer that the police would put my husband through if he tried to explain how I strangled myself "accidentally" while he was sitting not 3 feet away from me on the sofa. Not only the stangulation hazard but I could've even put my eye out with the needles!

Tonight I think I might take Clair to the Zombie Farm haunted house. I don't like these sort of things but she really wants to go and she went to Kohl's with me to help shop for clothes for Raleigh and Jocelyn so I feel like she deserves to do something fun.

Ahhhh! It's finally Friday!

Gosh what a long week it's been. I've just been busy with life and work, nothing super exciting going on. My DH had a work deadline this week and that usually means long hours at the office so not as much help as I'm used to getting with everything. It was also my first week back at the second job. I had a hard time making myself go back there this week. My first day back was the same day that Brian passed away and I was just a big ball of emotions all day. I just wanted to be with my kids and my DH. Anyway, the first day back went well. There were 2 new people there that I have never seen before so it was kinda twilight zone like.

Not too much to blog about since Jiffer and Bobbi are the only people who read the blog anyway and I talked to both of them today. By the way girls, it was nice to talk to you both (in real life for a change).

I feel some knitting coming on. I think I'll curl up on the couch with my knitting and watch some Star Trek: Deep Space Nine since I screwed up and haven't updated Netflix lately so I have 3 discs on DS9. This cool weather has me wanting to knit.

I'm back

I've been so busy I've had no time to blog. At least the blog name is sort of a disclaimer in and of itself. You would probably expect that there would be times when things are just way too chaotic to post. I've been very busy at work lately and the kids have been busy with their stuff too.

I was supposed to get off of work at 3:30pm today and I knew that there was no way I would be out on time so I called daycare and told them to give Maura a bottle if she got hungry. At about 4pm I started getting worried that I wouldn't be out in time to pick Clair up from her speech meet at 5:30pm because things still weren't looking very good on my bench. I called DH and he said that he would pick up the 3 youngest from daycare, Raleigh from after-school daycare, and Clair from her speech meet. **sigh of relief because I didn't even know where the school was located that the speech meet was at** Anyway, I finally get done and am about to walk out of the door at 5:30 and DH calls and tells me he didn't have time to pick up the 3 youngest from daycare and asks if I can go and get them after all. Yikes! I thought he already had them and although they're technically scheduled to be at daycare until 5:30 I usually pick them up earlier, and besides that I would have called to check on how Maura did with the bottle since it's the first time they've had to give her one. I was soooo stressed out by the time I left that place today.

In the end, Clair won a 2nd place ribbon in the speech meet, Raleigh missed his cub scout meeting, and Maura reluctantly took her bottle. I'm still stressed out because of all the studying and getting every body ready for bed and all that stuff. I just feel like I've been in high gear all day long and I need to slow it down. I think I'll go and get a nice warm (almost hot) bath now.

Thing to be thankful for today: Nasty UTI seems to be clearing up with antibiotic that my dr called in for me.

Thing that sucks today: I already have a huge to-do list (left over from today) at work for tomorrow and I have to leave early to take Maura for a well-baby visit so I'm looking at another fun-filled day of stress.