The Queen of Procrastination Strikes Again..

[yes, I am royalty]

So, we're leaving on a trip early Saturday morning..

Like an 11 day trip..

Am I ready? No..

You are probably thinking, "you have 3 whole days, you're fine"

No, I really don't..

First, I take FOR.E.VER to pack..

Today I have dance festival at the elementary school, Chelsea has graduation practice, I have to pick up the dog from the groomer in American Fork (don't ask, but he had to be there at 7am), I have to pick up my new coffee table, need to get the rest of Chelsea's graduation gift [the exact one we want won't get here before we leave town, so settling for 2nd choice.. ugh] I need to find someone to feed my dog, cats and Chelsea's fish while we're gone, and I need a substitute for 2 Sundays in Nursery (did I mention I'm out of Cub Scouts and in the nursery now? Yay! I love Nursery!)

Tomorrow.. Well, GRADUATION.. Plus I have my parents coming in town (luckily, I don't think they expect me to be entertaining..) I guess I'll do my last minute laundry?

Friday.. Last day of school for little girls, packing, convincing Chelsea she wants to go [this is ongoing.. :)]

And now, before I curl in a ball, I need to wake up the girlies!!

Am I this boring?

I want to get on and post SO SO bad!

The problem? I can't think of a dangflabbin thing to write about..

How sad am I?

PLUS it is Tuesday.. My beyond busy crazy day.. (dance, pack meeting, dance, city league basketball [Davy, not me!], Chelsea on a date..) When am I supposed to make dinner?? (I won't even get into how I only have 1 point left.. gotta love the WW)..

I DID go out to lunch with the more mobile Elissa.. (went to the bathroom in Red Robin in 4 minutes, yes, I timed her..)

I DID drink 5 Diet Cokes with my lunch at Red Robin..

I DID go visiting teaching..

I DID go to the grocery store..

I DID order American Girl bunk beds for Valentine's Day for my girlies..

..could my life BE any more exciting?..

Kid jokes..

Now, you may be expecting some lame jokes my girls have told me.. 

And they do tell me.. 

Really..

Lots..

The problem is, I was realizing this morning (as Adi was telling me a joke) that I simply don't listen to them.. Like at all.. Like at all, at all..

I have a "laugh" that my girls just expect when they tell me a joke.. I don't even try to do a real laugh.. Its more an annoyed courtesy laugh..

I don't think they're offended, or anything ::whew!::.. But, they're just in that phase where they're trying to tell jokes, and half the time they tell it wrong, they don't get it themselves, or worst of all - they made it up!..

But I was kinda feeling bad about it this morning.. How sad that mom can't even remember (and she's even trying) the joke you just told her.. I hope I'm not totally alone in this, but I'm having some very minor guilt about it.. 

Believe me, I'm not going to lose any sleep about this, but it was one of those "light bulb" moments, and it made me just a little sad.. My poor little aspiring comedians, with a very unappreciative audience.. 

I will try a little harder on this one.. 

Things I feel the need to share..

*see edit below*

• Can I tell you how much I love boots? (This is in terms of my little girls) Well, in general, way cute, and I looked for them early enough in the season that both little girls have some we like!.. But the best part? Our socks don't have to match! Now, I promise if you were to check, both Savannah and Adi have matching socks on today (well, they match eachother).. You have to know, socks at my house are an endangered species, and are often called (by me) the bane of my existence.. We have issues keeping track of socks.. But with boots? No one knows if your socks match! -your outfit or each other! Boots - they are a beautiful thing, and save my sanity almost daily..
• Soft foods - So SICK of the soft food diet.. I gave Davy cream of chicken soup on Sunday, you would have thought it was chili.. He was terrified of those tiny pieces of chicken.. He couldn't really find much to eat at work that worked with his psycho version of a soft food diet.. "I only have raspberry yogurt, and I'm worried about those seeds.." He was giddy about having some Cream of Wheat at work, but Byron didn't make Cream of Wheat today "Oatmeal? Too chunky.. It could get down in my.." (He prefers not to take this thought any farther.. He doesn't know where it could go, but he doesn't want it there..) I went and bought him some CoW and you would have thought he was a 6 year old on Christmas morning "Mmmm.. It looks SO good.." I agree, just looking at a big bowl of CoW - so divine! (ha!) I think he was happy to eat it, but not sure it was as delectable as he had imagined - I didn't get any rave reviews after he ate it..
• Food Network - For some sadistic reason, this is the channel Davy got into all weekend while he couldn't eat anything real.. All through dinner he told me all of the new foods that he has never had, that he is craving.. Great.. We're doing good to have normal dinner at all, let alone Food Network food.. (shoot me now)
• Little girl fears - ONE time at the beginning of the year, I was about 5 minutes late picking Adi up from dance.. It might as well been an hour, AND maybe she was left alone in the cold and dark.. In reality, she sat and watched the next dance class inside.. Well, needless to say, she has not forgotten this. Luckily, we quickly fixed (okay, not fixed, but put a band-aid on it) this.. Savannah goes and watches her class so Adi isn't alone.. There have been no tears on Tuesdays since we started this.. Forward to today.. Savannah has Activity Days today (in the past they have been on Wed).. Lets just say there is a 7 year old girl whose world is crumbling.. When I wake her in the morning, she is always happy and sweet and generally asks "What today is it?" Not today.. She opened her eyes, her face crumbled, and she cried, "I want Savannah to go to dance with me!" UGH.. (and how is that her very first waking thought?) Can't wait until 3:30 - haha..
•  I need a USB cable.. I went and bought a new printer last night.. On the instructions it says "May include USB cable".. of course mine didn't, and when I told Davy he said, "We have tons of USB cables!" Well, I can't find one, and I really need to print up my cub scout schedule.. And a resume for Chelsea.. And.. (lets just say, there's a list)
• Next Blog - have you ever hit that? Up at the top of your blog? It completely confuses me! How is this the "next blog"? Really! Today, for example, the first was in, say, Italian, (I am such a linguist) the next Russian, (pretty sure) then Spanish.. Once I tried it and every one was in Chinese (or some other oriental language) AND each time you look at this, it is different! This confuses me.. Why is it there? Does anyone care about the Next Blog? Is the Next Blog useful to anyone?

Apparently, I'm having issues..

I went on to thecutestblogontheblock.com to change my background.. It won't let me! On either computer, it says I need to sign in & have credentials? Now, I know I'm bad at this, so I went to Pyzam.com to do one of theirs.. all that one does is put the whole script on my sidebar.. Not happy! So, rather than have a white blog, I chose a premade Blogger background for the time being.. I'm a little sad right now..

It's just one of those days! ..ugh..

So, I wake up the girls this morning and GUESS WHAT? 2 girls with pinkeye! Oh my heck! Adi went to school yesterday, just fine, (congested.. not a pinkeye symptom) she is full on cruddy again! Now, Savannah is very mild, but still! Don't they realize this is one of those crazy weeks? I have got SO LITTLE done! (I know I had yesterday, but I was visiting Elissa, she slipped in her kitchen on the 29th.. broke both her tibia AND her fibula.. one a compound fracture.. So, I was like, doing service! My laundry had to wait..) 

Here is my day.. 

• Chelsea haircut at 11
• work on Savannah's science fair project (experiment was supposed to be done yesterday.. we're close, we just need some cookie tasters), 
• Savannah's county report due tomorrow! (why are these so close? 4th grade is breaking me this week)
• den meeting (yes, I'm a wolf leader--2 new partners with 10 kids all under 8 between them-not a joke, and each with a 5 month old..) so we're doing scouts at 7.. I'm trying to have a good attitude, they're doing this so they don't have to bring all their kiddos.., 
• laundry.. so behind (enough said there)
• Davy has a dentist appointment Friday and wants to be put under, trying to convince him its NOT necessary.. this is the guy who wants to be put under for a cleaning..
• Supposed to be going to the Jazz game tonight.. Dang, probably the only one I'll get to this year, but have scouts.. Maybe the sick kids excuse?
• Oh ya.. Call the scouts to tell them we're now meeting at 7 (used to meet at 4)
• Get my dang printer to work (k, I won't really work on this, but I will be angry because it isn't working)
• Find the memory card for my camera.. I'm hoping its in my purse
• Pick up prescription for Davy
• I'm sure there's more, but I'm in denial because I'm looking at this list and wanting to go lay in bed!

Now, I'm sure I sound all disorganized (okay, I am) but now you have to hear my day yesterday..

• 12:30 visit Elissa (see above) til 3:00
• Drive 1 mile, taking much longer because of mucho snow (by the way YAY!)
• 3:30 girls get home, jump in my car, head to Adi's dance class
• Go to post office, send letters to missionary
• 4:30 pick up from dance
• Get home (about 4:45), start making 2 batches of cookies for science fair project
• 4:50 Davy gets home from dentist, report on his trauma (ha!)
• Baking, mixing
• Davy leaves for Stake meetings
• 5:45 leave to take Savannah & carpool to dance
• 6:00 arrive at Walgreens to pick up Davy's prescription, which of course isn't ready, deal with them trying to get our insurance info entered (of course it was called in to a pharmacy I'd never gone to!)
• While there, buy haircolor for Chels, and get stuff for she and her friend to ask guys to a school dance (Morp) THIS Friday (see? procrastination is hereditary!) Go back to pharmacy, still not ready..
• Leave to pick up dance girls (done at 7:15)
• Get home, begin supervised baking again, get little girls doing homework, advise/supervise Chelsea with Morp items..
• Chelsea leaves for doorbell ditching
• Feed little girls frozen burritos.. (it is 8:15)
• Hear Chelsea and Sarah's doorbell ditching adventure (really quite funny)
• Put little monkey children to bed
• Color Chelsea's hair
• Finish cookie baking (finally)
• Help Chelsea dry hair
• Davy gets home (10:00)
• Now, sit and watch Friends with Chelsea and Davy

Wow, I may have used my daily allotment of bullet points today.. Wish me luck!

*edit - I got brave and called my fellow den leaders and told them I'm going to the Jazz game.. Yay me! Points for bravery..*