Catch Up from Saturday to Monday

Saturday came and went. We had a good time n the snow but the cold and my little girls gloves didn’t match for the event. She had mitten type gloves and the snow was a very wet mushy one so she got cold quickly. Although she was up for staying out longer, I didn’t want her out there in wet clothes that long. She had a great time and it was fun to watch her smile and play.

I took her out again and made a tower with her about three buckets high. That gave her a kick. We need to get her some good gloves to play in the snow and we can make forts and snow men next time.

Sunday started out with me having a headache. Sinus from the change in temperature I guess as well as both Saturday and Sunday I slept in too late.

My fantasy football team is hapless right now. No matter whom I activate, they are having the worse game possible. I lost badly this week but I don’t feel too bad about it. I had enough of Peyton Manning failing me so I put tin Kyle Orton who is currently the second best QB playing. I thought anyway. Yet he didn’t get me 10 points. The main problem was the guy I was playing against had Adrian Peterson, Drew Breeze, Arian Foster, Marques Colston, and I forget what other superstars they were. I had an uphill battle to begin with anyway.

I usually score around 110 to 120; he scored 126 I scored 86: Wonderful right? I beat him earlier in the season but he didn’t have the "All Madden" team in play. I have already secured a playoff spot so I wasn’t worried but I would have liked to have another win under my belt still.

My main strategy that almost worked was I picked up Robert Meacham to take some of the points Mr. Breeze would be doling out and negate that for him. It worked somewhat. The other part of my strategy was to pick up the back up running back for Adrian Peterson. Peterson was hurt this week and a game time decision. If he hadn’t played, well, this would be a happier post. I gambled and I lost. Oh well, on to next week.

Today I stayed home from work. I didn’t feel like I had a restful weekend even though it was non-eventful. I didn’t have many things pop up from work so that was good. However, I just felt tired and achy and run down. Later Sunday night, I finally got some relaxation for a short bit and was ready to watch some Dexter and my son broke his key off in the lock. I missed the start of the show dealing with that and then I got aggravated as it grew in impact since we need to replace the locks now.

Seems like a very trivial event I know but all I wanted was to watch this hour long show and fall asleep. I am not asking for much. Why is it happening right in the middle of the one thing I want to do before bed?

I get past this aggravation because dwelling on it will only make it worse. I resign to watch it when it comes on again or on demand and focus on something else. I begin searching for something else to rest my eyes on and settle down. I find something and before you know it I am drifting off to sleep. I guess I was a sleep about thirty minutes from the point of the show I was watching, nothing groundbreaking just Numbers, and my wife comes out to tell me my daughter is asking for me. I love my wife and my daughter but at this moment, I am thinking, ugh!

I go upstairs and my daughter has already fallen back asleep. I guess she decided it took too long and she will deal with her monsters on her own.

I traipse back down stairs, emitting a grunt or sigh I am sure, I know my wife feels bad about this and I don’t want to make her feel worse but not sure how well I handle that interaction half asleep. (I know she doesn’t get good sleep either thanks to our little angel.) I make it back to the couch and now I am awake again. I find some more mindless TV and I don’t know how long I was awake because I refused to watch the clock, but I definitely didn’t sleep enough because I called out of work today to get some rest.

I still don’t feel rested or like I accomplished anything. I have a lot to do at work; I have two classes left and one test in school and it's review and goal setting time at work as well. I have a big load going on right now and my wife is handling Christmas mostly by herself with a few inputs from me. It’s a bit busy and a bit stressful. Add my head hurting this weekend and it was a no win situation.

Chili’s cooking right now: it tastes and smells good. My wife is taking good care of us again and I am very proud and grateful for that. If she wasn’t here to do it I couldn’t work like I do and enjoy my family the way I do. One day it will be better than it is now and we will be more relaxed and fulfilled. Maybe I’ll get that job writing for a news paper one day and be able to do what I really love to do and get paid for it. We’ll see.