Random Tuesday Thoughts - crazy crap, literally, and figuratively

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Wow - this past week provided me with lots of random, but I failed to write alot of it down and now I'm having brain cramps....

• Speaking of brains... my friend who was told she had a TIA ended up not having one at all. So now, I can't call her Stroker Ace - and frankly, she IS disappointed in that. More importantly, the doctor called her diagnosis "strange, but not scary" and since her name starts with an S I've decided to call her Triple-S. (any wrestling fans, yes, I robbed Triple-X) Super Strange S___! Her neurologist (who IS by the way a cutie, and YES she snaked me a picture of him) we'll call him Dr. Hottie, told her that she had some sort of infection that caused her 'strange but not scary' symptoms. Not sure about you, but anything going wrong in my brain is SCARY..... I think she feels the same, but what can you do?? She's set to be monitored and re-scanned in a few months. I personally think she's counting down the days to see Dr. Hottie.


• On to the other 'crap'... my 3yo, who has been the poster child for regularity since he was about 6 months old has suddenly gone all independent and in control on me with his poopin. I could set a clock by him in general, 8-9am a poop, and then 4-5pm a poop. WHY is poopin soooo important to moms?? I have no idea but it is. Anyway, I called the doctor because for whatever reason he started going 2-3 days in between poops. WHILE I'm on the phone with the doctor, he's dumpin. Making me look like a fool, but still - I was glad to know that I'm not the ONLY mom who calls about this with a 3-5 year old, and she said particularly BOYS. What's with the holding it? Who knows, but as long as he's not in pain, and he's going at some time or another, I guess it's ok. She reassured me, I just needed a little hand holding. And I'm not ashamed :-).


• More crazy crap... wanna know what I did? Better yet, what I didn't do??? Recently my husband was laid off AGAIN, and then something major occurred in my family that really distracted me - and well, my entire household really. THEN the end of the month occurred and I was buried in work up to my eyeballs. SOMEHOW, for the first time since I've lived on my own - I failed to pay our power bill!!! And for no other reason then just being slack. We had the money right there for it!! So, not only was there one month due, but the new bill had came electronically and it was two months due. I do paperless billing, and I guess I managed to delete them both and assumed "I'll get around to it". I didn't get around to it, and today our power was turned off - well, for all of about 1 hour. And BOY I was embarrassed!!! I cried, I literally cried. I allowed some situations to distract me that much! I called them, paid it, and they were back out here within 10 minutes of my calling. They evidently frown upon missing a payment. I'm being sarcastic, of course. I'm ashamed, and embarrassed... but I can't beat myself up for it. It was fixed rather quickly and everything is fine now. I thought about going back to paper billing, but then I just decided to add it to my cozi.com calendar and that should get me back on track....that + try not to let trivial things distract me so much! (PS - how could they not call to collect on that, never even got a call - mystery)


• Wanna know what else is random? We're going on a last minute end of summer beach trip this week!! YAY! Just decided on a whim and I'm excited to say that neither of the kiddo's know and we're going to try keep it that way until we're headed down the road. I'm sneaking and packing almost everything tonight and then we'll load it in the car tomorrow night and be all stealthy.

• I'm pretty obsessed with A&E's "Obsessed" about people with OCD. That's what I'm watching as I write this post...


• Don't forget to check out the review and giveaway for the Power Shelf.... you could get a free one :-).