Fold My Laundry Please

I don’t normally do bullet point posts, but I’m short on time and it’s been a while since I told anyone what’s actually going on in my life.

• "The Life Aquatic" - We were hit with a pretty big storm over the weekend.  The wind picked up here in Salem on Saturday and brought with it a ton of rain.  It didn’t stop until Tuesday morning.  Some areas around here had to close the schools because of flooding, but we were fine.  I went about my "normal" daily routine, which involved running ten billion errands before, during, and after Ethan was at school.  (On a side note, why is it that some errands create more errands?  Shouldn’t I be able to check an item off my list without adding three more on?)  We had a small amount of wind damage which the rental people had fixed by the middle of the morning on Wednesday.  And I spent much of Sunday explaining to Ethan that the rest of the house was, in fact, NOT going to blow away.

• "The Life Chaotic" - I am the queen of multitasking!  I am proud to say that I got all of my Christmas cards done…in the car!  I only send out 35-40 cards each year (only…PPFFFFTT) but each and every one was filled out, sealed, labeled, and stamped from the front seat of my car, or as I refer to it lately, The Command Center; after which I dutifully drove them to the post office and sent them on their way.  So while I may be destroying the environment by spending what feels like 6 hours a day in a running vehicle, my Christmas cards will arrive at their intended recipients in a timely manner!  A quick question, is it poor taste to include a plug for your blog inside your Christmas cards?  Hi guys!
• "The Life Genetic" - Sunday was Ethan’s 6th birthday.  Can you believe it?!?!  (I have been changing diapers for six. straight. years.  Not Ethan’s diapers, he’s well past that thank goodness!)  What’s great about his being six is that he is old enough to see the difference between getting few presents and getting many presents, but not old enough to see the difference between cheap thrifty presents and pricey ones!  And I gained about a zillion points as he unwrapped his first set of big kid Legos.  Legos people!  I rule!

• "The Life Symptomatic" - I went to the doctor a few days ago and was finally able to get a prescribed routine with various refillable medicines to use depending on the current status of my eczema.  This new doctor said the same thing I’ve heard a billion zillion times…"This may be a problem that you’ll have for the rest of your life," and, "Do NOT use the strong cream for more than two weeks straight or else it will give you old woman hands," but at least he didn’t prescribe a tiny tube of cream with barely enough medication to last three days.  He gave me scrips for big tubes.  And they’re refillable.  Already, my hands have improved to where they look like I have a small booboo instead of a possible case of leprosy.  Hopefully, I won’t have to see a doctor about this again for a very, very long time.  Did I mention that the prescriptions are refillable? 
• "The Life Hypnotic" - Much to my husband’s dismay, my obsession with LOLcats continues.  Aren’t they just too cute?

• "The Life Energetic" - I have managed to get to the gym at least four days a week for a couple weeks in a row now.  I’m not seeing a lot of progress weight loss wise, but my energy levels have gone up noticeably and I no longer collapse into a wheezing heap at the end of my classes.  More importantly, my husband says he is starting to actually be able to see a positive difference in my body.  I’m gonna go ahead and call that progress. 

So that’s life at our house.  Things are going about as well as could be expected.  The family is healthy and we’re all blissfully unaware of just how busy we really are.  Well, everyone else is unaware.  I’m the taxi driver.  I can’t help but be totally aware!