Two Lists in One Week!

You guessed it.  I’m feeling listy AGAIN.  And just a warning.  I’m going to have a lot of those YELLING moments.  I’m feeling like raising my voice for WHATEVER REASON!  So get over it.

1. Today is going to bite, I just know it.  Friday has become the longest day EVER.  I almost hate Fridays.  But really how can you hate the end of the work week.  Well, maybe when your work doesn’t end on the weekend, THAT’S WHEN.  Ok, so really I wasn’t feeling like complaining, just raising my voice, so I’m going to stop with that.
2. This is why today is going to bite.  We (Jack and I) were supposed to go and get ice cream with Brady and his mom today and well, I’m pretty sure Brady is sick, or his mom thinks he might be getting sick (because she is just like me – super paranoid – because she is going to be handing him off for a few days to his Gma next week and she is stressing that something will screw up two completely planned (down to the second) days of freedom).  I digress.  Ice cream.  Yeah, so Brady is sick and now we won’t be going for ice cream.  Which I was really looking forward to.  And I just can’t go by myself with Jack because we will look incredibly pathetic and the people at Coldstone know me by my first name at this point (and so do the people at J Crew… this is becoming a problem) and well, it’s just all very pathetic.  And it’s supposed to rain today. 
3. We’re (Jack and I) are heading out to MI next week.  And I’m freaking out.  Just a tiny bit.  This will be my first flight alone with the Jackster.  And there are no longer direct flights to my destination (or at least that is what E says), yeah, so now I have to worry about making my connection.  And let me tell you how huge it is to have another person present to hand your child to when you are flying.  Because for a second you can sit back and relax and pretend you don’t know them.  Then you can go back to calming down the kicking, pinching, and screaming.  And let me tell you, I am PRAYING that we don’t have the same sleep issues we had in Chicago because I have planned a ladies night (which means NO boys, not even Jack) where I will be able to spend time with my girlfriends for the first time in I don’t know how long.  And well, if I have to leave him with anyone and he is boycotting sleep, I will be home by 9:30.  And well, I was hoping for a little bit later than that.
4. We’re off to test drive one more car this weekend.  ONE more.  Because that is all I can handle.  Yes, it’s supposed to be a little cooler (upper 80’s versus the upper 90’s that it’s been for the past eleventy billion days in a row) but still, can I piss and moan (like I have a right, I’m talking about the new car I’m going to be buying here not the hog farm I have to go clean) just for a second about how much I hate test driving cars?  First it’s hot.  And you hop in that car that’s been sitting in the blazing heat (YEE HAW) – God FORBID that we let the damn thing cool off because the car salesman must HURRY so he can move on to the next schmuck who’s not going to buy a car.  Anyway, so I’m all sweaty and they hand it over to me.  And the air is full blast freezing my sweat and I’m driving in an area I’ve never driven before and for whatever reason I feel like I’m in driver’s training and I’m so damn focused on not wrecking the damn car or getting pulled over or scratching it randomly on something (?!?) that I can’t even think about whether or not it even has any positive attributes.  So by the time we’re finished I’m sweaty-wet but freezing cold and I hop out into the blazing heat again and I’m all confused and bewildered at what just happened.  Did I like the car?  Wha?  Car?  Huh?  Geez! 
5. Last but not least… no more bitching… I promise.  Great news.  We sold the townhouse in Atlanta last night.  WOOO  HOOO!  What a load off.  Talk about some major celebrating we’ll be doing this weekend!