Today was a difficult one. I didn’t sleep great and on the drive into the office I was really struggling with not falling asleep in traffic. It was physically painful to focus on staying awake. I just can’t keep this up. I want everything to go back to normal!!!!!!!

I came home early with hopes of taking a nap and it was useless. I wasn’t even close to falling asleep. Now it is the time I want to go to bed and I am not really feeling tired.

Alright – enough complaining!! I played ball with the puppies. They are getting so good at catching the ball in the air and I am trying to get them to put it back in the basket when they fetch it. Dime is going to be the one to master that first, Nickel is stubborn.

I finished putting together the other nightstand tonight. It all looks good. I have some car cleaning stuff to take to the garage but other than that, I am done with the like organization part of the room.

Let’s see, I can’t really thing of anything else interesting that happened. Sometimes my life is just normal and not the usual rainbows and sunshine I just can’t help how funny I am

OK, goodnight and sweet dreams everyone

I got my end tables in the mail today!!!! I built one of them, but it like totally kicked my booty so I will do the other one tomorrow. The goal of these is to put sweaters and bedding stuff in them so that my dresser can be stuff I use more often I feel so accomplished and that is great!! I know I am such a nerd. A friend of mine said something like it looks like Pinterest exploded in my clean corner – I thought that was hilarious It’s not just me that is funny, I try to surround myself with funny people!

Alright, must go play tennis with the dogs, they are going crazy with built up energy!

They are getting so freakin good at catch! I can’t wait to do another video of it. I have to get a mount for my phone and I will put the tripod up and just film, maybe next week.

Had a good day at work today. Not super eventful I suppose, especially for a Monday. I made my flight and hotel arrangements for next week – CHICAGO!!! I say that like I am going downtown to the Hilton, I am flying into Midway and headed right to Calumet City and then to Ohio. So, lots of driving, 8 hours total and 4 hotels for 5 days We may be getting on a packed travel schedule here this month, I will keep you posted.

I am going to get ready for bed, I am a bit worn out! Also, my teeth have been really sensitive to cold lately and that give me a bad headache Aleve PM and sleep will come soon Goodnight!!!

Well, it was bound to happen and it has… Nickel ate the living room remote control. Luckily we have the original remotes to use until I can program a new one, but what a little BRAT! When he gets upset he does these things and most of the time no one is around to notice what he is doing to correct him. I don’t know what to do with this dog

Today was laundry day, which went quickly since I was sick most of last week. Mom wanted to go to the store to get a new lamp shade so I took her and we stopped and picked up some dinner. That was pretty great

I cleaned the stickers off my metal pieces for my desk and will hopefully get them painted this week. When I am not 100% sure about something I really drag my feet on it I just want to make sure it is right.

I talked with dad and we are going to build another picnic table! Gonna come up with some moving system for it so we can just move it out of the way. Found the same plans as the one we made 15 years ago. Will be doing things a little different this time though May use different wood for the top and will work on something to personalize it, like burning our names into it or something.

Alright, sorry it is so short, but I am going to finish up my room and get to bed early today. I have been sleeping very poor still. BYE!!!

Everyone came out to the house today when we weren’t really expecting it!! It was very nice. I had wanted to cook, but the time didn’t really work out good. I am making brownies right now.

Today was also the day the pool day. It was a bust, they just drank out of it… I was so sad.

I cleaned out my corner and that feels great!!

And brownies are done I will be partaking in them – I shouldn’t, but I will.

Tomorrow I am going to finish with the bathroom because Samantha has a bunch of stuff to go to the goodwill so that will be perfect. I will then be super ready for my new end tables and then all will be so great I know, how silly to be this excited about this kind of stuff.

I did realize today that we haven’t done like a picnic in so long. I gave my table that dad and I made to someone so now I think we should make another one and we can move it onto the car port when we want to have a picnic – or we should put it on the lanai. I am not sure which will be better, but when something happens you will be the first to know

Oh, almost forgot, I put the protection stuff on my car seats for the puppies. Basically they can’t get hair, scratch, or whatever anywhere in the back seat and they can’t get to the front seat from the back. It is great and anyone who has dogs that they take with them – you should get one I will review it as soon as they use it and post a link on that blog.

Well, I am going to get out to the kitchen to cut the brownies and then jump in the shower and fix my bed!!!!! What a nice day

I am going to paint some parts of my desk this weekend and I stopped by Home Depot to get some spray paint and I used the self checkout – which I HATE doing – and it flagged me for buying spray paint. I know it makes sense but I guess because it has been so long since I ever got it that I didn’t even think about it. Crazy stuff.

It is pouring now so I hope that I can even paint tomorrow, I just plan on doing a sample so I think I will be OK either way. I am not 100% sure I am going to like the end result and I want to play with the finish anyway. Not sure if I want it to be perfect or look a little distressed, or not perfect.

The puppies are not happy that we can’t play tennis tonight. They would have no issues, but I would be a total mess if I tried. I have no doubt I would be covered in mud

I went to the office today, didn’t really feel great the whole time, but made it. I did leave a little early to try to avoid the rain. I made it to the car with a little bit of water, but not as bad as it could have been if I had waited a little bit longer

I had to get gas on the way home. I HATE getting gas. I really wish we still had some full service stations, I would probably go out of my way to get gas there. Oh, if we only lived in New Jersey

I have a couple goals this weekend. I really need to get my bathroom cleaned out. It isn’t that it is so dirty, there is a lot of donate stuff in there. I had no place else to put it so it has been piling up. Then I would like to get the corner of my room cleaned up / organized. I have some more things to help with that coming next week, but I am sick of looking at it. Picture below!

Carlos and Paul should be coming out tomorrow. Love that they make the time to come out. It helps out so much and means a lot

Alright, I am going to find something on my TV to watch and try try try to get some real sleep. Might have to take some helper pills – like the over the counter stuff

Today was another sick day for me. My dad is much worse where he has basically lost his voice. I am not bad with voice, but I feel a bit sick. I hate being sick and this year so far has been difficult for me. I am a person who never misses work, never takes vacations, and this year I have been working from home so much – it isn’t good.

Got a couple important packages today. I wanted to get my mom one of those handheld spotlights, like people who play in the woods use. Well, when she opened the box I was a bit shocked at just how huge it was. The goal was to be able to light up the place and it sure will. I also had ordered Paul something that came and they are great. Will post a picture on Saturday cause I have successfully guilted him into reading this blog and I don’t want him to see the actual thing The last package was the water guns! Nickel chewed the turtle one up so the replacement is a bag full of them!

I have been watching more documentaries today, none have been spectacular but I did watch one on Alzheimer’s. It was very sad, but good.

My mom went to the store and to get her hair cut – she wanted “real food” for dinner so we are going to cook pork chops. Yummy!! Talking about cooking, or baking rather, I haven’t done it like I used to before the “incident”. I enjoyed it so I am going to do it again this weekend. My dad has been asking for corn bread and cake for so long now and it’s time to get that bakers apron ON!!!!!!!!! Dad reads this too so he isn’t going to let me forget that I said I would make it

OK, I also will try very hard to post a vlog this weekend too. I haven’t so far, but I have some ideas. I am really going to try the raw style. What I mean by that is just some random moments, but not really cut and pasted together more like a continuous thing.

K, gonna go cook. Have a great night!!!!

I think I got what mom had and dad too. We both sound horrible and I felt really sick last night / early morning. I just got out of bed to eat a little something and now I think I am going to lay back down. I also went ahead and took an allergy pill since we have some high levels of pollen today. Even though I certainly don’t plan on going outside.

Well I am feeling no worse at the end of today so that is a good sign. I just got back inside from playing night tennis with the puppies. They have no issues, I just can’t keep up with the balls!

I watched a couple documentaries today they were pretty interesting. Can’t remember the exact titles, not really worth mentioning.

We had some stir fry for dinner, we have this all the time and as usual.

I am setting up YouTube to watch on the big TV – so exciting Wow, it looks great.

I ordered a little kiddie pool for the puppies. It should be here by Friday so we can play with it this weekend.

OK, I should put this away so I can sleep!!

I stopped at Publix on the way home because me and my dad needed milk and I managed to pick up mine with an expiration date of April 20… That is TOMORROW!! Publix had GreenWise Milk out at $5.99 a gallon that expires tomorrow. Makes me a bit sad.

Also, my mother refuses to have anything to do with this blog and she thinks all I do is talk about her. So, I asked her to help me title this blog and she had no idea what I was talking about. BUSTED!!

I thought I was going to get this done right now, but Nickel is bugging me to go play catch so I must go

Alright, they have officially had enough – well as official as they can be.

I had a meeting all day today and I am exhausted for sure. There was lots of heated discussions but really it was good because we are having issues regarding this stuff so hopefully something great comes out of it

I ordered me a couple of night stands that match my dresser, not to be used as night stands mind you, but to use as extra dresser space for sweaters Yes I have that many and I can’t stand to hang them on hangers because of the whole shoulder puff! Ha ha ha

Well, I haven’t been sleeping well lately so I think I am going to try to go to sleep a little earlier tonight. BYE!!!!

So, ever since November I have been steadily gaining weight. I was down to 143 and now I have skyrocketed up to 195…

I have been thinking of little else since Thursday to be honest. I am not happy about it, I am a little disappointed in it and most of all I am now motivated once again to get back to it. I have been taking medications that have been messing with my appetite and I think I am on the right stuff now. I have plenty of personal training sessions piled up to see someone 3 times a week for a while and that is just what I am going to do. I want to start at home on the treadmill to prevent burning out too quickly at the gym, but no later than the middle of May I should be getting to it!

Update: Regardless of which is right, my scale says I gained 40 pounds and not 50. Good news for me I guess.

Today was pretty good at work, we had a little bit of an issue to resolve this morning as soon as I got in, but I think we got it worked out now. The only bad thing about the day is that my friend at work has taken a new job and she won’t be there anymore. It is good for her though so that makes me happy

I got home to the puppies making a beeline to the gate. Luckily I was though and had it closed before they got there. Then they proceeded to herd me all the way to the house. Once I open my door, the heavy girl Penny jumped in my lap. She weighs 50 pounds I think.

I was supposed to stop at Publix and pick up something for dinner, but I was on the phone and passed right by it. Because of this new road they are building I would have had to go like 5 miles out of my way to go back I decided we could find something here to eat

I ordered new lens for my phone and they came today. I can’t wait to try them all out, should be very nice!! Now if I could just remember to post some pictures on here that would be great!!! So, let’s catch up!!

What’s today, that’s right laundry / cleaning day I got a late start today, but have already got this day going!! I finally gave in and got a second set of sheets so that I didn’t have to leave the bed unmade while I was washing the bedding. It just takes so long and the puppies are relentless when they can’t come in the room.

Loving the new TV!! I can’t seem to get it to go in screen saver mode, but other than that – pretty perfect Will add a picture to this in a bit.

Happy to report that mom is finally starting to really feel better. I wasn’t too worried, but she was pretty concerned about feeling bad for so long (a week).

I am not sure what we are doing for dinner, we haven’t really been cooking too much lately.

I have got to finish this room so that I can get that desk done and installed. Plus I am pretty sick of seeing all this crap everywhere. I added to it with the new TV so that doesn’t help

K, gonna get back at it – will check back in later.

Wrapped up with the laundry. I didn’t finish, didn’t do the bed sheets, but that’s OK. I can do that anytime during the week.

I am in need of more dresser space and I can’t figure out what I want to do. Yet more issues with this room

Had a good day over all and I think I am going to call it quits and watch a little TV and then take Nickel and Dime outside to play catch. He is talking to me like crazy to go play