Just a Few Thoughts In this Big Brain

-On December 1st I will start a 30 day inspiration series on my blog. My basic premise will be to showcase things or people that inspire me daily. In turn I want to be able to inspire others. I'm doing this to dig a little deeper into myself. I chose to do this at this time mainly because when else can you be the best inspired? The holidays seem like the best place to do it.

-I've fallen madly in love with a song called 'Run' by Matt Nathanson. This song is a deep love song. This is the kind of love I want to have. Deep and passionate. I also wouldn't mind having a guy write a song about me and then sing it to me.

-I'm back to the semi-early shift at work, 8-530. I'm really not ready to go back to work tomorrow.

-I'm still not 100% over being sick, but fortunately I have a wonderful boyfriend who helped take care of me over the long weekend.


Peace&Love
~L

Running the Gauntlet

Yesterday I ran the gauntlet. I don't mean this literally. Actually, I didn't do any running. I went to 3 different Thanksgivings. Yes you read that correctly, 3! First was my boyfriends moms where I actually ate food and where we stayed the longest. Next was my grandparents place where the food from place 1 caught up with me and I didn't feel so good. Needless to say, I didn't have anything to eat for the rest of the day. I guess that is a good thing. After about 2 hours there we went to the boy's dads get together and lasted about an hour before we were both ready to pass out. I started feeling sick yesterday with  a head cold. Then as the day went on it got worse and worse. We picked up some NyQuil on the way home, took some and before you knew it I was passed out. I slept from about 8 til 7 this morning. Man am I ever glad someone invented this drug. Feeling sick is not how I wanted to spend my 4 day vacation, but I guess it beats being sick at work.

Now lets talk about the weather. Only in Wisconsin can it be 65 degrees on Thanksgiving and 18 degrees the next day and snow flurrying. It's way too cold out to do anything outside, which is a good thing because I don't think I'd feel to good doing it. I'm also not a black Friday shopper so I'm avoiding all shopping centers as much as possible. The boy is currently playing video games and I've been "working" at Starbucks. I did a little bit of lesson planning, but mainly I've been job searching and wasting time on pinterest. I'm about to head back, but I figured I would write you all with my brief story of yesterday.

What did you all do on turkey day?


Peace&Love
~L

Happy Thanksgiving

Since I most likely won't be on here until next week sometime, I figured I would wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! Eat lots of delish foods! Enjoy lots of time with family and friends, and by that I mean quality time. I say this because I don't get to share holidays with my immediate family due to distance, so don't take that stuff for granted. For those of you going crazy for a day and being a part of Black Friday...good luck and don't get trampled on. I will let you know soon about my long weekend and running the gauntlet of 3 Thanksgivings in a day!

Peace&Love
~L

OT

For those of you that don't know what that means, that means overtime and lots of it. Basically since I've started at the daycare I've been getting at least 2 hrs of ot each week. That starts to add up over time. (No pun intended.) Recently, it's been taking a toll on my body. I haven't been eating the best and working out has more or less become a thing of the past. I'm trying to get back on the working out thing, but I'm so exhausted when I get home I don't do it and in the morning I have no motivation since I'm freezing cold. But this post is not about that. This post is about what happened last night.

On a typical day my hours start at 830 and end at 6. I'm usually out the door at about 6 give or take a few minutes. Well last night, my coteacher and I were the last 2 stuck with 3 boys. 2 of which were brothers. We got a call from one boys father and he said he would be there about 630, so I knew right then and there this was going to be a long night. There was still no sign of the brothers mother so I called her at 605 and she apparently fell asleep and was on her way and would be there soon. It was now 635 and the one boy was long gone and we were still waiting on her. So my coteacher called her this time and she said she was 2 mintues away, when in fact, she was 10 minutes away. So I was at work until 645!!! I was quite angry. I guess I don't understand how you forget your child, or how you fall asleep and don't set an alarm to make sure you get them. I don't understand how parents think it's ok to leave your child there, do you think that we just stay overnight and don't have our own lives? Thats what irks me! Hopefully today won't be as bad...we have picture day. Should be loads of fun!


Peace&Love
~l

Short Week

I'm very happy that this week is a short week. 3 days of work and 4 days to eat and drink and sleep and relax to prepare for another long stretch of work. As much as I should put more effort into caring about these last 3 days for a little while I really could care less. I also have quite a bit planned for the weekend so I won't be relaxing all that much. Here's to hoping this week goes by fast and the weekend goes by slow.

Some highlights from this past weekend:

-Went shopping on Friday night and bought to pairs of jeans, now down to a size 6! Got a black lace dress for the boys company Christmas party for $25 from H&M and a few plain tees from H&M as well.

-Caught up on lots of White Collar while the boy was at work.

-Went to my friend, Britt's birthday party on Saturday night. We went to see a comedy show called, Bye Bye Liver, basically lots of drinking involved. After, we headed out to some bars and the boy met me down there after his family party.

-Watched the Packer game, too close for the fans to handle

-Went to the mall with the boy just for something else to do.

-Went to the grocery store to pick up some massively oversized meatballs for our pasta.

-Watched Big Bang Theory and a little bit of nothing and came home


Peace&Love
~l

Tales from an Asthmatic

I've had asthma all of my life. It was worse during my very young years and it progressively got better as I got older and more under control. As an adult it is under control but to a certain extent. I'm on a daily steriod inhaler that I'm not a fan of. I would love to get rid of it over time, but I think my body has become so dependent on it, that if I should ever stop using it, my body would have a hard time adjusting to breathing without it. However, I'm not here to tell you about me, I'm here ot share with you how I feel about parents of my daycare children who basically expect us to care for their ill child.

We have a 2 year old boy who is just like any other kid his age. He loves to play and run around and get into trouble. So, when you see this boy laying around on the ground, moaning, you know something is not right. He has struggled with breathing in the past and has had to take treatments. I mentioned to his mom once that I had asthma so I know what he is feeling. She said oh no he doesn't have asthma, its what happens when he gets sick. Ok that may be very well and true, but I still know the sound of asthma when I hear it. I know how hard it is to breath when you are having an attack and he clearly was at this moment. I felt so bad for him. We notified our director who said she would call his mom, but told us not to expect much. The feeling for him had to have been much worse than I deal with, being so little. And the worst part? His parents both smoke like chimneys. And you wonder why he is having difficulty breathing! That is one thing that just makes me cringe. How as a parent can you allow yourself to smoke in the presence of your child? I respect the fact that people want to smoke, but don't do it in front of a person who has no choice of moving away from you smoking. Don't smoke in front of children. Period. I have come close so many times to tell mom that she needs to stop doing that, you are killing him slowly.

I hope that for his sake his parents start to see what damage they are doing to him, or pretty soon he won't be telling tales of asthmatic, but as someone with cancer.


Peace&Love
~l

Thirsty Thursday...

...or is it Wasted Wednesday? Yesterday was quite a long and painful day at work. 8 children who all were crabby and crying and throwing tantrums and hitting me and my co-teacher. Made for a burned out me. And yes as you are all aware I'm looking for other jobs. I do believe that my bosses are on to me. They asked me yesterday if I was putting in my 2 weeks and of course I said no. I have no other job prospect yet. But all of this craziness lead me to drink last night. Normally I would deal with the stress by working out, but since I didn't get home until almost 7, I just had no energy left to do that. So drinking was the best alternative. I wouldn't say I was anywhere close to wasted, a little tipsy and that might even be a stretch. I had a slight buzz that wore off at about 10. No hangover today, which is good, because work could have been extra long then. For future reference, I'm not going to drink midweek anymore, especially when I have work the next day.


Peace&Love
~l