Stupid Sinuses
I woke up with such a headache this morning, and I can’t get it to go away. This weather may be nice, but it’s got me all messed up as far as my sinuses are concerned. Hot to cold to hot to cold to hot…I’m hoping we don’t have another big cold spell. My head already wants to explode.
Top that with all the stress of trying to make sure the bills get paid this week. It’s time to deal with that outrageous power bill we got last month. I just hope the next one isn’t as outrageous because I don’t know how we’re going to afford two huge ones. Sigh. Maybe I should get a job that has something to do with power so I can get something back out of what I’m putting in! Hmm. I could get a energy auditor certification.
All we’re hearing is how we’ve all used so much extra power with the cold snaps we’ve been having, but it still doesn’t make since to me how Blue Ridge is charging $300-700 on most power bills while Duke Power raised their bills $30 making the average bill $100-150. Just why is Blue Ridge so much more expensive? You’d think with all this money they’re making from us someone has to be banking! If only we had a choice over which company to use, but we know that’s impossible.
Feeling Busy & Icky
Thank goodness it’s Friday. Busy day number 3 is currently in progress, but I have the weekend and a babysitter tomorrow night to look forward to! I’m just taking a short break to type out a couple posts while I eat some lunch. Elliana was late going down for a nap, but at least she actually went to sleep this time.
My dad stopped by in the midst of all the chaos, and he offered to put her to sleep for me while I ate lunch, but it just wasn’t happening. She is a total boobie baby, and she won’t go down for a nap without nuzzling and sucking. She spit the bottle out the second he’d put it in her mouth. I ended up sending him away to run his errands while I put her down with the “mommy time” she wanted. He said he’d come back to see her after her nap, so that’ll give me a bit more time to get some stuff done while he’s playing with her.
I’ll probably take advantage of that time to jump in the shower. I had a bath with Elliana last night, but I just don’t feel clean right now. I think it’s because I’ve been stressed out, so my face looks like a pizza again. Plus I haven’t been eating exactly the healthiest of foods this week. We’ve had a lot of pizza because it’s been the easiest thing for me to grab and eat on the go.
Plus this time of the year I tend to get these nasty looking bumps on my chin that are HUGE. Hubby has nodular acne, so I’m wondering if that’s not what this is, too. My whole chin will turn into a huge pimple. There’s never a head on it to pop, so I just keep putting meds on it until it finally disappears. Sometimes that can take weeks. When I was a teenager my doctor told me it was probably allergy related since it happens at a certain time of the year, but he never gave me a definitive answer. Now that I think about it maybe I should get it checked by a dermatologist. Then again that’s just one more thing on my list I don’t have time to do right now.
Ready To Sleep
Ugh. I was totally right when I said I didn’t think Elliana would stay asleep when she went down at 8pm. She slept a total of 20 minutes before she woke up again. I fed her and tried to get her back to sleep, but it just wasn’t working.
I handed her off to Hubby for a bit so I could grab a bite to eat, and then at 9:30pm I gave her a bath thinking some Johnson’s Bedtime Bath might help her drift off quicker. I’m not buying anymore of that stuff because it totally doesn’t work for her. I try to follow their little 3 step bedtime bath, bedtime lotion, and quiet time routine, but it just doesn’t work. Baths tend to wake her up instead of putting her to sleep, so after I got her dressed I spent well over an hour rocking her and feeding her before she drifted off again. Even after she fell asleep I stayed in the rocker for awhile to make sure she was good and asleep.
Now I’m not certain she won’t wake up again. I decided I’ll sit here reading fat burners reviews for a bit, and if she doesn’t wake up within another 30 minutes I can probably safely say she’s down for the night…or at least until 3-4am. I’m crossing my fingers and praying she’ll stay asleep because it’s been such a long day.
Worn Out
Whew. I am totally worn out. Today has been one of those days. The baby absolutely refused to go down for naps today except for a 40 minute nap this morning. She was cranky, my Grandma was begging to see her, and I had a huge list of stuff I needed to accomplish. I’ve still got a ton of work to do, but at least I ended up getting most of my housework done. I gave in, took the baby to my Grandma’s, and I ran back and forth all day doing what work I could while going back to check on her.
It might not be quick weight loss, but all that running back and forth should help me lose at least a couple pounds. That’s the plus side of having my Grandparents next door. They’re always begging to keep the baby, so I have a built in babysitter. Plus I can walk back and forth which helps me lose weight. The downside is running back and forth like that totally wears me out.
Now the baby is finally down, and I hope she stays that way for the night. I doubt she will, but if she does I can finish the work I didn’t get done today, and then I can go to bed early with her!
