Thursday Thirteen

 

Thirteen rando thoughts I've had this week. 

1. I over peopled today.

2. How deep is the ocean?

3. Will I ever go to bed before 2a.m. on a regular basis? 

4. Why am I a politics junkie?

5. I wish I'd have taken better care of my body and developed better exercise habits in my 20s.

6. Should I purge the garage or go through stuff first?

7. Can I afford to go to Ireland? Do I want to go alone?

8. I think I'm getting crankier with age.

9. I am falling into bad habits again.

10. How have I learned more about ADHD from TikTok than any doctor I've seen.

11. I really need to put away the laundry.

12. Working two jobs again was dumb.

13. I really do not enjoy the summer. 

Thursday Thirteen

 

The catching up edition.

1. I had a trail in June/July that consumed every waking minute of my days. It was complex, and complicated and every day after trail we were at the office preparing for the next day until 8p or 9p.

2.  The jury came back around eight p.m. on on July 3rd. I was home by 8:40p and passed out on the couch almost immediately. I remember waking up around midnight and going to my bed. 

3. I woke up the next day at 1:45pm.  I slept 13 hours and I needed it.  

4. My last week long trial was in 2018.  I was younger then. I bounced back easier.  We had three trials back to back, October, November, and January.  Three trials, three separate counties, two an hour away.  I wasn't this tired then. 

5. 2024 is not the same as 2018.  

6. I have a three day trial in mid-October and a two week trial in November that is scheduled to end the Friday before Thanksgiving. 

7. I really hope the November trial settles. Because fuck me if it doesn't.  

8. The October trial screwed my vacation days. Not that I planned to go anywhere, but I lost 80 hours last year because use it or lose it. I'm not making that mistake this year so I scheduled two weeks in Aug/Sept, and a week in Oct, a week in Nov, and the week between Christmas/New Years. 

9. The Aug/Sept and Oct days need to be moved because motions for both trials are due in the same time frame.  

10. Also, getting older blows.  I don't bounce back like I used to. I don't keep weight off like I used to. Yet my face still breaks out like a goddamn teenager.  TF?      

11.  And, my favorite thing in the whole world, sleep, I don't get that anymore either. I'm lucky to get 6 hours.  Who TF thought old people wouldn't want to sleep MORE in their golden years?  \\

12. I've lived. I've seen things. I'm tired. I want a solid 10 hour sleep every night. Period.

13. Now you're all caught up with me. What's up with you?

Thursday Thirteen – the positive edition

1. You are worthy

2. You are good

3. You are genuine

4. You are enough

5. You deserve nice things

6. You are happy

7. You are beautiful

8. You are NOT your past

9. You are better than you think

10. You can do it

11. You are worthy of success

12. You are strong

13. You are capable

Now swap out I for You, and am for are

Because sometimes we all need a little reminder  

Thursday Thirteen - First World Problems

 

Thirteen first world problems that I can absolutely relate to: 

1. One click on your mechanical pencil isn’t enough, and two clicks is too much.  We hates this.

2. I can't hear the movie because I'm eating chips. See also #12 below.

3. When my phone charger is too short so I have to roll over to play Wordle.

4. When the computer takes more than 0.0004 seconds to load a page. I don't have all day...

5. Being a lawyer. shrugs

6. The screaming carrot still hasn't been held accountable.

7. When it’s been 5 seconds and your password reset email still hasn’t arrived. THIS! I deal with this weekly.

8. My phone volume is too low with ear phones. le sigh Apple let me LIVE!

9. Logging into a Zoom meeting and the computer must update first.

10. When you grow a whole Rosemary plant to have fresh Rosemary but you feel bad tearing off the leaves so now it’s just another plant in the house. At least it smells good.

11.  When you hit the restart button instead of shut down.

12. When the background noise is louder than the dialog on a show  I loathe this! And, it's why I cannot watch anything absent closed captions. No I'm not deaf.

13. There's nothing to eat. All I have are ingredients. 

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Thursday Thirteen

 

1. Style

2. Wildest Dreams

3. Mean

4. Never Grow Up

5. Anti-Hero

6. We are never ever getting back together

7. I bet you think about me

8. You belong with me

9. Cruel Summer

10. Picture to Burn

11. Mad Women

12. I knew you were trouble

13. Blank space

I don't think I qualify as a Swifty, but I do like her music. In no particular order, Thirteen of my fav Taylor Swift songs.

Thursday Thirteen

I haven?t done this in a while.  I was going to list thirteen of my favorite blogs of all time in no particular order.  But instead, I will list the things I?ll be doing tomorrow in preparation for my baby to turn another year older, she is going from 7 to 8.  I?m not ready. I feel old.

1. Wake up.  This of course is essential to any day really, but, since I am not going to work, the thoughts of sleeping later have already crept into my mind and I keep reminding myself that it will not be a lazy day. 

2.  Take the dramas to school.  7 has no idea I?m sluffing work.  She thinks her party is going to be on Saturday. 

3.  After I drop them off, run to MIL?s house to pick up the new bike we bought her. 

4.  Crap!  Stop at Target and get her a new helmet to fit her newly grown dome.  I cannot believe I forgot that until right this very minute. Shit Shit Shit.  Okay, I?ll do Target first, bike second.  Shit.

5.  Go pick up her cupcakes and balloons at bakery. 

6.  Take cupcakes to school and drop off after brief meeting with teacher.

7.  Go home and clean decorate the house and put up balloons and banner outside saying HAPPY BIRTHDAY 7!!!  (She is going to be so surprised!)

8.  Somewhere in there, stop and have a cup of coffee and maybe a bagel. I am going to need my strength. 

9.  Confirm with her best friend?s mom that he is coming home with us after school. 

10.  Bake and frost her birthday cake. 

11.  Send The Man to pick up the dramas while I start cooking her favorite meal, Chicken Alfredo with garlic bread and salad.

12.  By now, it will be 4:30 p.m. and the family members will begin arriving for dinner.

13.  Eat dinner, have cake and ice cream, open presents, begin day one of hearing her new Hanna Montana, Meet Miley Cyrus CD over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over
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Thursday Thirteen - Tired

Thirteen Things that I?m tired of:

1?. Trying to do it all
2?. Being the asshole
3?. Waiting
4?. Being right
5?. Trying to be happy enough for everyone
6?. Being the voice of reason
7?. Having to remember everything
8?. Wondering
9?. Being the responsible one
10?. Not saying what I feel
11?. Feeling what I don?t say
12?. Putting everyone before me
13?. Worrying


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Thirteen Things That Have Irritated/Angered/Pissed Me Off This Week

1….Don’t forget to go vote for your fav blogs (and me of course) in the Really Fucking Stupid Blog Awards. (This doesn’t piss me off but shameless plugs may piss off someone else so I found it apropos to post here)

2…. Call me stupid, crazy, senseless, shameless, silly, dumb, redneck, uneducated or whatthefuckeveryouwanttoo but I liked Anna Nicole and I am sad and angry that she has died - especially now that there is a baby out there without a mother. Regardless of how fucked up that mother may have been.

3…. Clappy shoes. Ya know, those sandals that women wear that have no strap so the sole claps up on their heel with every damned step they take. Clap Clap Clap. Clap Clap Clap. Those annoy the shit out of me.

4…. Attorneys who for the life of them, cannot figure out how to properly bill for shit or write a legible description to save their lives. And I’ll add to this list impatient attorneys who make me call and ask for things that we don’t have due to us for a few more days and then I get my head big off by the bitchy woman at the place I call and I get told that “we need to wait a minute” and if the thing is due Friday we need to wait an additional five days before we call because we aren’t the only client out there with demands and deadlines and bla fucking bla. I wanted to reach through the phone and choke her with the phone cord. I just asked a simple question. Grow the fuck up and act like a professional you whiney whore.

5…. My family and all of their selfish dysfunctional irrational glory.

6…. Schools that send me letters after my kid is out all week sick as hell that there was a strep throat exposure in her class in January!

7…. My mother in law and her neverendingfuckingnagging about when are we going to get the window valances made and when are we going to buy this and make that. When will the yard be done? When will I buy the dramas new curtains for their rooms to cover those ugly blinds. My priorities are not at shopping right now. Live with it.

8…. My husband - who I love dearly but if he doesn’t stop fit throwing when he doesn’t get his way or things don’t go his way - I am going to have to inflict serious bodily harm to him. Grow the fuck up you big baby.

9…inconsiderate, selfish, fuckwad assholes who can’t be bothered to hold the elevator, when they see you coming, when you are right there and make eye contact and you see their finger on the close door button. I hate them all and wish they would get herpes and have oozing open sores every day for the rest of their sick pathetic lives. Bastards.

10….The demands of everyday grown up life. Period.

11…. Lack of sleep and migraines.

12…. The weird dream I had AGAIN last night. This one woke me up at 5:14 a.m. and I’ve been up since. I lived in some duplex, 7 (Drama#3) was playing between our storm/security door and the front door with some cars. There were these two pillars where I could see down the stairs from our front door. On the street, the cars were all parked at a 45° angle. There was this guy with a little red car. Like a Honda or similar. Anyway, he had this skeleton type thing that hung on a track inside his car and it would switch seats. Its eyes lit up red. 7 was watching this guy play with it and I was watching her watch him. He seemed to be tinkering with it and when he had it how he wanted, he motioned that she could come down and see it if she wanted too. I thought no problem since I was right there and could see the whole thing. So I told her she could go look. I told her it was okay. She walked down all excited and that fucker threw her in his car and drove away before I could get off the porch. It woke right the fuck up and haven’t slept since.

13…. That is the third night in a row that I have had freaky borderline scary dreams and it is starting to wear on me. Especially that one. Where the hell did that come from?

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