Irritation..

One of the most irritating thing in the world is when you say something repeatedly and NO ONE bothers to hear you. They may be able to recite what you say, but aren't HEARING you and listening to what you say. I have to admit I very rarely say things just for the grins and giggles of it. The purpose may not be clear at the time, but there usually IS one. Like a month and a half ago I asked C to call the house cleaning people we had a Groupon for. Did he? Of course not. Why would he need to? We don't need the service until THIS week - for right before Mattie's birthday. It can wait. This conversation went ON and ON and ON until a week or so ago until he tried to get a hold of them and couldn't. Then suddenly it was MY problem again. *I* needed to take care of it again and complain that these people were "evil" and whatnot. Turns out they finally get back to C. Their "next available service is LATE MAY. Yeah. Kinda what I figured. That may have been the reason I was bringing it up so darn much. And You may think "Why didn't you just call them yourself?" The promise of "Don't worry about it, I'm doing it today." Was made EVERY TIME. Had - even once- I don't have the time to get to it, can you just take care of it - been said,  I would have. I even offered several times, and was yelled at for. SOOOOO Now I am stuck with a broken foot, a dirty house, a cake to make, friends coming over, and am pissed.. 

Mondays are EVILLLLL

Well mostly because they are Mondays.. But..I'm torn whether is was good or bad. I went to the orthopedic doctor and the re x-rayed my foot. The good news: It's had a good amount of healing. The bad news: It's not even close to being 100% healed. It's about 60% there. The original break is about 75% healed, BUT I have to go and be REALLY special and he found 2 places that he didn't see until they began to heal that are broken as well. Soooo in actuality I have 2 bone chips and the original break in that 5th metatarsal. I'm in a walking boot instead of a full cast. We're trying to think of a good name for the boot because WOW it's huge. And we need to get some gems or something to decorate it because it's damned ugly. I'll be in Bootsy for at least a month but depending on how the healing goes on the original break and chippy 1 & 2 - it could be up to 6 months. Sooo I'm super NOT thrilled at that.

In other news (because I'm a total squirrel like that) I've passed my medical transcription testing and I can go and get a job and do that - even from home part time - which is something I've been working on for the last full year. When I started we had not planned on homeschooling either kid and I had slated to finish in 6 months. I'm disappointed it took so long, but plans changed and I needed to take care of the needs of T1 and 2 - but this should allow some flexibility too.  This is  the test I retook to get a higher score on. I DID get a higher score and graduated with Honors now. YAY me..

And for a completely different subject.. The Boy's birthday is in less that a week. The baby is going to be 5. It's rather tragic really. He's getting SO big age, size, maturity - well.. Except when he starts acting like a loon. I'm gonna have to make him his own post later with a photo progression.. That will amuse me..

12 Days Of April...

On the 12th Day of April my true loves gave to meeeeee:


12. Flinching Banchee Screams

11. Sawing Saws

10. Suite Life On Decks

9. Wet Towels

8. Empty Cups

7. Hours of panic attacks

6. Time outs

5. Meals prepared

4. Piles of Vomit

3. Clogged and over flowing toliets

2. Snuggly huggly bunny naughty kids

annnnnd

1. reaaalllllly long day..

Music..

Behold the power of music. T1 is doing a listening therapy for OT and they just changed the CD from one she REALLY liked to one she REALLY doesn't. She had done fantastically on the previous one. Her mood was great. She was sleeping well. She was cooperating with the schooling. She had a decrease in fits. Since the switch in CD's there have been increase in fits, defiance, stubbornness in school, whiny "I don't want to's", not sleeping, fighting with brother, and a whole host of other displeasing side effects. From Music. ALL from listening to music 20-30 minutes twice a day. It's special music but it's IS just music in it's basic form. How messed up is that?  The therapist has suggested that *IF* we can just manage to muddle through right now and not strangle our precious little darling, then we MAY have found some kind of frequencies that are setting off some kind of changes and we will eventually see POSITIVE changes. Oy. One can hope..

And now. I must go remove a fussy, pouting, fit having child from the hallway and deposit said child back into their room.

Cake!

I've got my 5th cake of the week in the oven at this current moment. One might think that I LOVE cake, but no. I really don't. I don't usually eat the cakes I make at all (or cupcakes, or cake balls or whatever it happens to be..) I really don't LIKE cake at all. I like to pretend the cake TASTES really delicious and that I've found the right "way" to make a moist yet done yet springy cake. And yet, even though I bake probably 25-30 a year, I really don't enjoy eating them. Cake BATTER on the other hand. WOW can I lick a bowl. THAT never gets old. It doesn't matter the flavor of cake either for that as long as it's a nut free cake, I'm there. My kids even get into the act and I even purposely leave a smidgy left in the bowl for us all to umm.. well.. lick. It's gross.. I know. But oh so delicious.

On a completely different note, allergies are heinous and evil and should die. They are literally killing me today. I've already taken my second double dose of Zyrtec (in addition to the other 900 allergy meds I take) and it's 9:30 am. That's 4 freaking Zyrtec's. It's gonna be specials. And I can just imagine how The Boy is feeling with no sinus hole to drain his snot, but he has a Dr. appt here in a few hours to have that looked at again. He's honestly not quite right but has no definitive symptoms to point out, but he never EVER does. It's a giant fuzzy gray area for him.