Sleep? What's that?

It seems as though my daughter has forgotten how to sleep.

Case in point: last night, Katie went to bed at 10:30pm, woke up screaming at 2:30am, laid down with Mommy on the couch and was tossing and turning (while really only semi-sleeping) until 6:30am at which point Mommy handed over control to Daddy and got 30 minutes of sleep.  Needless to say, I am exhausted.  And it's not like this is going to be a restful weekend.

Tonight is my nephew's 16th birthday party and tomorrow is the mother of all bridal showers.  I think I'm going to need to sleep for a month.  Boy, how I wished I could sleep that much.

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V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N

It is 11:24pm on Saturday night and I am officially declaring myself ..... ON VACATION!!!!

Today was my last day of work and I got off at 2:30 (which turned into 3:30 when they asked me to close and THEN turned into 4 when people WOULDN'T LEAVE!).  Yesterday was my last day of work.

So why now?  Why 11:24pm?  Because my lovely history professor decided to have homework that was due Sunday at midnight.  And I just finished it.  Oy.

I do love my history class and my professor is really amazing, but what the heck man?!  Can't you give us a bit of a break?

Oh well, at least it's not the 10 page term paper I have to write for my art class.

Anyone wanna do that for me?

That might actually be a bit fun.  It's just a wee bit involving.  I have to go to an art museum and pick a single piece of art, then write about it.  Sounds fun!  Until you start getting into all the nitty gritty analyzing mumbo jumbo that just takes the beauty of art out of art.  I don't need to understand perspective or lines or shading to know something is a beautiful piece of art.  Whatever.  I do what I have to do.

But I'll save that for another time.  No more thinking about school.  What I need to be thinking about is SAVANNAH!

We leave tomorrow LATE (as in 10pm-ish) and drive the 16 hours to Savannah.  Then we'll wash up and head out to dinner and crash quite early.

But oy, we still haven't packed a thing!

Eh, Katie's packed for her trip to Ya-Ya's for the week.  That's what's important, right?

Ready ... Set ... BLOG!

Okay, so here goes.  The fastest blog post ever.  I have 15 minutes until I leave for work and I haven't even gotten changed yet, BUT I feel the urge to blog, so here I go!

Yesterday, Katie started walking.  Yes, I realize she is 14 months, but I figure she's been talking since she was 5 months, so I can give her a little leeway on the walking bit.  Her first REAL steps were in church, too, which just seems to make it all the more special.  And, to top it all off, they were to Papa.  My father-in-law melts over this little girl, so when her first steps were to him, he about fainted.  I'm so glad that Mike and I were both able to see it.  We kept joking that she would decide to start walking when Mommy and Daddy were in Savannah next week, but she decided she couldn't let that happen.  My precious girl.

She also had her first lollipop yesterday.  And it was a root beer flavored Dum-Dum.  Girl after my own heart, I swear.

It's midterms this week, which don't really mean a whole lot.  But work is also extra-sucky this week.  Lord help me, I am going to be earning my vacation next week.  Savannah is going to feel so darn good.

Mike and I are heading to the library this week to pick up an audiobook for the drive down there (yes, we're road trippin' it from Chicago to Savannah!  It's nothing compared to the road trip to Tucson/Phoenix we took when we were first married).  Anyone have any suggestions?  On previous road trips we have listened to Cell by Stephen King (which we loved) and a John Grisham book (which we didn't).  We have extremely varied interests in books, so it's a bit difficult.  However, if you have an audiobook that you have listened to that you'd recommend, I'm all ears!

The Great Update

I have been so neglectful of my blog.  I do NOT want to even check when my last post was.  Goodness me.  As you may have guessed, things have been mighty crazy here my wonderful household.  This last weekend was very homework ridden.

On Thursday, one of my professors (complete airhead, this one is) decided to announce that we had a 5 page paper due on Tuesday (as in, tomorrow).  On what, you may ask?  Good question.  One that still isn't quite clear to anyone in the class.  But oh well, I wrote it.  It's done.  It may not receive an A, but at least it won't be a zero.

I also have my first biology exam tomorrow.  Don't mean to sound cocky, but I'm really not worried about that one.

Oh, and did I mention I have a job interview tomorrow?  I'm interviewing for a position within the same company I work for now, but it's a higher pay grade.  It's a little bit further away from home than my job now, but I think it'll be worth it.  Things have just been way to crazy at my branch.

And to top it all off, Miss Katie Mae has molars.  Four to be exact.  Three of them were a complete surprise.  We hadn't a CLUE they were coming in.  But this last one.  My goodness.  I really wish I could just give her a tranquilizer and wake her up when it's over.  Poor girl is just SO miserable.

Good news, though!  Katie hasn't had a bottle all day long!  I'm so proud of my big girl.  Apparently, she gave YaYa and TiJo (That's aunTIE JO-jo) a hard time today because of it, but I really think it was just the combination of the molars and sippy cup.  She did wonderful yesterday with mommy and daddy!  Maybe she just thinks she can get away with more at YaYa's house (which, of course, she can).

We also bought a new car!  Well, new to us.  It's a 2006 Mitsubishi Outlander.  It's beautiful!  41,000 miles!  Excellent condition!  AND we got a great deal!  Saved about $4500 on it!  I do love driving that pretty girl around.  I named her Ruby.  She's not red, but Ruby just kind of struck me as her name.  So there it is.  (I think Mike is still confused by it hehe)

Honestly, my brain is fried.  I can't think of a single thing left to update!

In that case, my dear friends, I bid you adieu!

Weekend Warriors!

Woohoo!  Here are my plans for the weekend:

1) Work today (should be leaving now, but whatevs, no rush) until 2:30.  Then we're heading to church (meeting up with my in-laws and our Katie Bug).  Post-Church, mommy dearest will be working on homework.  (Hopefully, I'll be able to get some of it done at work as well).

2) Tomorrow is nothing spectacular.  We'll get some grocery shopping done and then, as long as the homework is done, I'll tackle my new project: reading a non-school book.  We'll see how well that goes.

Maybe, just maybe, we'll head to Kohls because, like Ms Joy, we have some gift cards still from Christmas and hubs and I need some new clothes (him more than me).

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Pooped.

One word to describe how I feel.  Pooped.  No better word to describe it.

I'm physically tired - although I've gotten, really, plenty of sleep, I'm still physically exhausted.

I'm mentally exhausted.  School is kicking my rear end and, although we got 2 snow days last week, that doesn't mean my workload was any less.  It just means I didn't have to drive in the snow.

I'm emotionally wasted.  Hubby and I got into a fight on Sunday - a pretty big one.  And although things are great now and were great within an hour of the fight, I'm still just spent.  I can only liken it to a really tough workout at the gym.  You feel it days later, deep in your muscles, but it's a good kind of hurt.  The kind that you know is only going to make you stronger.

And lastly, I'm spiritually exhausted.  I haven't been reading the Bible.  I haven't been praying.  I haven't been studying God's word at all.  I just haven't been.  We didn't even go to church this weekend.  We did listen to it, but it's just not the same.  You don't get to share the comraderie.  You don't get to sit there and watch the words filling people's hearts.  You don't get the heavy worship.  You don't get any of that.

What I really need is a prayer, a nap, a cup of coffee, and a non-school book.

And, of course, some snuggle time with my Bug.  But she's napping right now, so I'll just have to wait a little while until she wakes up :)

SNOW DAY!!!

Ladies and gentlemen, it's a snow day in Chicago.

Now, you may be thinking to yourself, Pssh.  Snow day in Chicago.  Who cares?!


Uh, hello?!  This girl does.  I have never, ever, ever in my entire life had a snow day.  Not in grade school (that I can remember and, really, what grade school kid doesn't remember a snow day?), not in middle school, certainly not in high school.  It took all the way to college for me to get myself a snow day.  Can't say I didn't earn it, that's for sure!

Not only is school cancelled (I did go to class today, but they closed the school down at 3pm.  Unfortunately, my last class ended at 2.  Hrmph.), but the bank I work at closes at 4pm today (unheard of) and quite possibly will be closed tomorrow!  AND, since hubby and I work for the same company, we get to enjoy our snow day as an entire family!!!!!

I'm so excited, in case you haven't figured it out.

Once it stops being all blustery out there, I think we're gonna take Katie out for her first snow experience.  Yes, that's right, we haven't done that yet.  She isn't walking yet so we just figured it'd be lame, just sitting in a pile of snow.  But we simply have to get pictures of her in the biggest blizzard we've experienced, certainly as a family, maybe even in our lives.  I don't know, I don't have all the facts on that.

Shot of our backyard

I'm not kidding, I JUST got done shoveling.