The Beach Is Back...

We survived the beach- or should I saw the beach survived us? We had a blast. Went over with the plan to spend the day, and drive home. We stayed. The kids don't think we stayed long enough!I am tempted to agree.

Since I last typed...

To say it has been crazy around here would be... an understatement? Pretty normal- for us? Not even beginning to scratch the surface? All of the above?

Ding- ding- ding! We have a winner!!

Well, Mothers day has come and gone- I survived. Laundry and dishes... my wash tubs runneth over. The kids have remained relatively healthy... bumps, bruises, 4-wheeler crashes, and "he hit me!"... every one is still mobile under their own power. Even if they still want mom to carry them around.

Chemistry is still blowing my mind- but I only have to deal with 1 test, 1 lab, 4 lecture days, and one final. I think I have almost enough coffee to cover that.

I got my acceptance letter into my program (pardon me while I do another little happy dance here) WITH a nice little financial help from the university (and the happy dance continues!) and all the stress and anxiety that comes with it.

OK I am in... Now I have to DO WHAT? Books, fees, requirements, forms, orientations, IMMUNIZATIONS, expectations...

Definitely need more coffee.

It's Memorial Day weekend... which means high gas prices and an overwhelming NEED to get out of town. So fuel costs be damned, off to the beach we head. In about 5 hours.

And I am still up dorking around on the computer.

Maybe TOO much coffee?

Impossible :)

Alphabet soup ... for brains

Here I sit- my mind is quite full of useless knowledge. Over flowing... because I just think in circles, it gets all swirled around and comes out as a big scramble.

Scrabble blogger. That would be me.

I wonder if I just type a whole bunch of random letters, someone out there might be able to decipher it and let me know what exactly is going on in there. Because, I really haven't a clue.

Ugh. Ugh. Double Ugh.

Good Intentions

The road to WHERE is paved with WHAT?

I have really meant to get on here and blog (whine, witch, complain, fill you all in on the boring nada- ness of my daily being, etc) but life seems to have gotten in my way.

Its a lot nicer than saying I have had absolutely no ambition to do much of anything at all... Lazy Ass-ed syndrome people. It seems to hit me hardest in the spring time.

And spring it is... I'm sure I will snap to my senses again sooner or later~

Hi. My name is Amy. I'm a mom.

When you hear alcoholics say that you know exactly what you mean- the big "Ahhh" moment and you hide the booze... or at least try and act like you have never had a drink before, and would never consider it a possibility in the future.

Sometimes I get the same vibe when I say I am a mom. A stay at home mom.

After the barrage of "so what do you do?"... I am at home with the kids. "Oh, you do daycare?"... No, I just stay with my children. "Ohhhh......" and then they move on, like I was poo on a shoe.

In my desperation for adult semi-human contact I usually spit out something about having my own personal herd of children... and all that comes with it. Desperate attempt at silently screaming "I DO something, really! Talk to me, I promise I am not a leper or anything, I really do DO stuff! Not exciting or anything, but STUFF. I. DO. STUFF. TOO!!!"

It is frustrating beyond all measure, to feel like I have to justify myself, over and over, just to feel less like a lifeless lump of squishy mom mass. But I do. And it is over dorky insignificant things...maybe if I violently spew the amount of tedious STUFF I do daily, the sheer quantity of it will negate the mind numbing sameness of it all. OR make me feel even more like the dumpy, exhausted, unfocused housewife I appear to have become.

Maybe THAT's why I get the "ahhhh...ohhhhh" looks. People DO understand that I have no life, and hope it's not catching. Crazy lady with a Herd Of Monkees... STEP BACK!

I'm a mom. Actually, it is a pretty powerful statement- but just because I am, and have the herd... and stay at home (mostly) with them (as much as my sanity allows)... does not mean that I just sit at home and attempt to maintain, and contain, the devils spawn that I have produced and inflicted upon the world, trying desperately to reduce their destruction of the planet.

I like good books and walks on the beach too.

ugh-UGH... did I mention Ugh yet?

Another Monday is upon us- I think there are more than one in every 7 day cycle. There has to be. Every time I turn around it feels like it's another one.

Since we last spoke... or rather I ranted, whined, spilled my boring daily life guts... I survived the 14th birthday of the oldest of the Monkees. I feel like he got gypped a little- because what can you buy for a 14 year old, that they like and/or want... that you don't need to take out a 2nd mortgage for?? Honestly- please! If you have this information, please share. I have 6 more 14th birthdays to deal with.

So I flubbered my way through it the best I could. He seemed, not horrified... so in Teen World, I guess we did OK. Knocking on some wood here~

Still trying to recover from The Trip- nothing quite feels like "normal" yet. But as I have mentioned before- I have NO IDEA what normal is anyway.

Also managed to maintain my lunch during, and after my Interview... 6 hour round trip drive...stress beyond all reason... absolutely NO idea if it was a good interview, or a disaster... getting to wait, and wait, and WAIT SOME MORE to find out if I am worthy.

Wow, I am too exhausted to even care anymore. If I am in- groovy. I now have the opportunity to have TONS of stress and homework PLUS student loans. If I am deemed NON worthy, I at least get a few months of couch vegging time, before having to stress out about the entire process all over again in 6 months.

Did I say ugh yet?

In more exciting news- I got to meet awesome people in Oklahoma and Texas, met the Sister and the niece and nephew too. Did I mention AWESOME?

Somewhere along the return flight home, I pinched a LOVERLY nerve in my ampleness. THAT STILL HURTS.

My Sis got engaged AND on Judge Judy... in the same weekend.

Grampa ROCKED his golf tourney, Grama survived having the kids invade for a week- AND it looks like, MAYBE, we all survived yet another Monday.

Still knockin' on wood!!

Survived the vacation

Made it back from MY VACATION, and still trying to get back into the swing of things. Had a really good trip- but am very glad to be back with my monkees... next time we will need to take a road trip~

More details soon!!