Tired

This week was interesting, wasn't it? We did actually get snow, but not as much as I had hoped for. I wanted to be able to take Kaia out and build a snowman tomorrow but I fear it will all be gone. :(

Cory & I spent the day cleaning and somehow no one room is done yet. Ugh. We have our realtor coming by tomorrow to tell us the dos and don'ts for getting our house on the market. I'm hoping she can also give us an idea of what she thinks it might sell for. She's been doing this a long time, I think she could probably give a decent guess. Anyway, we didn't get the garage cleaned out this week like we had planned so... we're behind a week but if the weather is nice this week, maybe we'll get it done and then do the "work" on it this weekend.

I registered for a bike ride Saturday. Just a 10-miler but I thought it might be a good way to kick-start my riding. I've got to get back into it this spring, even if it's just a long ride on the weekend. I miss it. And I really want to be able to do a century with D.

Kaia is getting so smart! She is giving hugs and kisses, blowing kisses, walking, saying bye and waving... it's just amazing to watch her learn. I love it.

Well, need to go check on the laundry. Ugh.

Hope everyone enjoyed their cold weekend. :)

Dead Sexy Shoes

My sister and I watch What Not to Wear religiously. It has really changed the way we shop for clothes. For the better. I buy fewer t-shirts now and am trying to buy clothes for the size I am instead of wearing clothes that are too big waiting for me to be a size 6 again before I shop. I don't think I'll be a size 6 or 8 again. I'm working at losing weight and I hope I do but I don't think my waist is ever coming back.

Anyway, a combination of the show and my cubemate - who always wears the cutest heels - has got me on a shoe-buying binge. And not my typical comfy shoes, but dead sexy shoes. You guys know me... even when I was a size 6, I didn't dress "sexy" and I sure as hell didn't wear high-heels. I've always been much more practical than that. But now, I'm just going to do it...(uh, the shoe part, not the dressing sexy part). I have to dress up while I'm at work, and I go all out on days I know that I will be going "out" to a meeting. Fridays, if we don't have any meetings, it's jeans day.

It's been fun. The above shoes I bought in orange. OSU day. :D

Kaia Walks :)

Those Elusive Teef

I tried to get pictures of Kaia's teefies but she's kind of a closed-mouth kind of smiler. But here are my attempts. You get the idea. :)

Sleepy Babies

Kaia is sitting in Daddy's lap watching Bedlam OKC style and kicking her feet. She's so sleepy she is doing anything to keep awake. I'm trying to take some "me" time for the first time in a week, even though I feel guilty as hell that I am home but not cleaning, working out or playing with my daughter.

So things are starting to be assigned to me at work. This is going to be as "big" of a job as I thought it was, which is good. And they are being extremely generous with my time right now, which is also good. I left at 4 yesterday after a meeting and left today after spending 4 hours at a water safety event with about, oh, 400 kindergartners. It was like herding cats. And tomorrow, I have a meeting at UCO until 4 so I'm guessing I'll get to leave after that too.

I got paid for the last 3 days of Feb. that I was on payroll. I haven't seen the stub yet, but the direct deposit hit and man, this is going to be nice.

The drive sucks, I'm already sick of it. I found a house I like in Edmond but of course, it doesn't matter much because we haven't done jack crap to get this house ready to sell. I'm of the opinion that we put it on the market and see what happens. Being at work at 7:30 in the morning does not bode well with living an hour away!!

Kaia is really not doing well in her new room at daycare. I don't like the lead teacher much. She isn't eating well there but eats great at home. I think they expect her to already know how to feed herself beyond what we have done with her so she doesn't get much of any food all day. We've talked to daycare about it but so far, I haven't been pleased with anything new being done about it. For the moms out there, how much should she be able to do herself at 13 months? Are we supposed to know when to give her the spoon and let her go at it? Because right now, she's barely getting food in with her hands. I mean, she does, but sometimes she misses and is pretty slow about it.

So, that's really the update. I don't have time for anything. Get home (usually) around 6. Play with Kaia, feed her, get her ready for bed, read stories, spend the next hour trying to get her to actually sleep, then I'm so exhausted I usually fall asleep too. I miss my husband. I miss blogging. I miss sleep. I'm even starting to miss cycling.

I won't, however, missing being broke.

Hi Peeps

Sorry, no time to blog, maybe this weekend. Just wanted to pop in and say the job is going well, Kaia is doing well and we're all tired of this commute.

:)