Check Please

I have been so busy lately. It seems like I am running in ten different directions. My mood has been decent, not really down and not super up. However, my shopping tendency has been out of control. I am thinking that I need to stay in the house until this passes.

It has been several weeks since I have written so I don't really remember everything I have done or not done. Danielle came over Fourth of July and we patched things up. She is still not living here at home but I have found peace with that. I think it is going to help with the campus living transition.

Mandi has been over several times. She is going back to school in the fall so she is no longer working at the radiology office. I am so glad she made the choice. I just can't see her spending the rest of her life pushing paper. She is way too social for that.

Emily had her next round of Botox injections last week. She was supposed to have a cast like last time but the doctor decided not to put one on her this time. I had went and bought her colored sharpies and stickers to decorate it so I told Mandi she was going to have to get her some construction paper when Emily asked, "What's Nanny gonna do with those markers and stickers?"

Mandi says Mom and Cherie are fighting like cats and dogs. I don't know what is wrong with those two. Yes I do. Cherie needs to grow up and move out. So does Tony and Charlee. There is a reason that God gave women menopause. There is a point in their lives when they are supposed to stop mothering. Mom is as much to blame for the situation though. She is an enabler and makes excuses so her misery is her own.

I splurged. I bought the kids a nine foot water slide that is connected to a wading pool that is 12 feet in diameter. It is super fun! The girls love it and I love it. I even went down a few times. That was a hot mess! Danielle took pictures of me and Mandi going down the slide but Hell will have to freeze over, thaw out and refreeze before anyone would ever get their hands on those!

The diet is still going well. I did have a lapse today but it does not mean I am quitting. I have lost 13 pounds. I have been exercising with the wrist and ankle weights and the exercise ball almost daily and I am still recording my meals and exercise in the online diary journal. Tomorrow my friend Sue is coming over and we are going to start Hip Hop Abs. Depending on if it kills me or not we are going to try to do it three times a week. This should be interesting since I won't have an adult beverage in my hand convincing me that I have some type of rhythm. There will be no pictures of this event!

Beau and I went to the New View Bar last night. I had a great time. I called Buffy and Frog to come up and I am kind of regretting it now because that was two extra people that seen me act a fool. I know I have said this before but I just don't learn from my mistakes. Apparently, the DJ doesn't either because he handed me the microphone again. Could I have picked a better song? "Cecilia, I'm down on my knees beggin you please to come home, come on home" really? I am pretty sure that I actually went down on my knees or at least my butt. I missed the chair and I can't ever recall having that happen before. Besides the embarrassing incidents, I did meet some cool new people and there were plenty of laughs (probably at me not with me). So I called Frog up and told him I found him a girl. For anyone who doesn't know I like to play matchmaker but it never works out. I don't think I have ever successfully set anyone up. This one didn't work out either. Mostly because Frog is in this fantasy land where he thinks he is going to score a nineteen year old cheerleader with a PhD that only wants to use him for sex. It will never happen. Perhaps, one day he can get a mail order bride and just take me out of the equation! I am a little foggy but I think I tried to set Buffy up with the guy that sang Cecilia with me. So my diet lapse actually started sometime in the early A.M. Beau and I went to Steak n Shake. But I am not really counting that since it wasn't in my system very long! Note to self...get on the wagon.