Monday, reflected

So Robin Williams kills himself and the internet ceases to move ahead?
Meh. Suicides should be forgotten and left alone. They chose their end, why bother them anymore?
My clock is fast. I awoke thinking it later than it was because it was set fast. Throwing breakers to see which was wired to dw was adventurous on Thursday. Regardless, dw wasn't a thing squared today given the family outing to Magic Castle.
Felt horridish early with back issues from work... I'm getting old. So much to do, but I'm not in the mood to do such and what not.

Magic Castle Monday

Hopefully, I will awake and partake willfully at Magic Castle as we are going to take advantage of half price Monday.
I hope to get started on fixing my dw as well.

ears and fears

This is the time of year that I begin to sweat myself silly at the carwash. It's like a sauna, so I turn on exhaust fans to combat the humidity. The fans are loud, so I wear earplugs. I'm not fond of the variety we have available now and have switched between my old pairs and the newer ones. Well, today I've had a pressure feeling in my left ear that is mild but I senses are a bit annoyed by K's voice and feel slightly off balance. I'm starving at the moment but I have to fast if I want to get my bloodwork done in the morning.
Such a nice day. The girls let me "sleep" in until after 10, so the day was slow going but I felt productive when I needed to be on the go. Still odds and ends for tomorrow to do, but I have to be up early to take kids to school since B has a fieldtrip in the morning. Maybe I'll take her out and about before K comes home, seeing I have to pick her up around 1:30. There are a couple things to do in the window they are both away... but only one is most desirable if I can uphold my fast through the night.
I've had a lot of cake as a result of B's birthday bonaza. I fear my sugar will be out of sorts in the blood drawn this week regardless of my fasting.
I did stuff today, but I can't say I used my time completely well. I need to give up  Facebook. I lost a bit of my day without accomplishing much when I  checked fb this morning. I need to be more organized with my day. Blog is productive if I'm working on organizing my thoughts, right?

fair start, music, son of the wave

Only bad thing about listening to the Pixies is the occasional "you f%&*ing die!" Of course, Surfer Rosa and Come on Pilgrim aren't for developing minds able to parrot words, but to a 4 month old any song seems fine if it sung lovingly.
The Clash have accents which makes their vulgarity less noticeable, in my opinion. London Calling is much safer than the Harry Nilsson which I grew up hearing.

return of Mehnday

I still love Mondays, but I had a rough go at getting started. Having three kids will do that, I suppose. Just got a bit of kinks in my back and such that will work themselves out after coffee and such.

The Apple 5S commercial has turned me against Pixies Gigantic in a degree, but for unrelated reasons I now think of bigamy. Between "Big, Big love" and "Hey Paul, Hey Paul," I get Big Love and Poly on the brain.

I still like the song, unlike Cash's Ring of Fire that conjures unpleasant thoughts of STDS between the title and the "and it burns, burns, burns."

Seriously, feel like I have pain from doing something athletic. I know its work related and that it will go away once I adjust to the grind. Weird thing is that I awake hungry when I eat before bed. I probably burn enough calories to maybe eat twice the caloric intake a person who sits at a desk should indulge during the day.

I need to eat better in addition to eating more.  Should start running and doing "exercise," to assist in deterring the aches and pains. Not that I'll ever see anyone from my hometown anytime soon, but it would be nice to make myself unrecognizable in a healthy, manly sort of way. 

a perfect day meets mehd-afternoon funk

had a great night at work. came home feeling great. woke up feeling ok enough. hung with k before he went to school. we talked star wars without it being annoying. got b breakfast and read her 6 books while attending to d around such. was gonna take a nap, but just didnt feel it when i had the time to do so. oh, well... good day all considered, just feeling meh as time approaches for the kids to get home from school.

it was shaping to be a perfect day...

... events that lead to no early nap, a continuation regarding Monday.

So I come back from the dentist a little tired, but alert enough to now going back to sleep when J, B, and D were up wasn't a grand idea. J had been talking about a Target coupon in the Sunday paper that gave the user a $20 giftcard when purchasing over $100 of baby care items. In the same Target circular, there was a promotion of a $5 giftcard when purchasing 2 big packs of Target Up & Up diapers that sold for $16.99 each.

We bought 6 boxes (4 size 1 - 112 ct, and 2 size 2 - 96 ct), so for $101.94, we got 640 diapers and $35 in gift cards to average $.104 a diaper!

While at Target we saw some clearance items. We bought a slider pan that was marked down to $15 and made tasty mini burgers for dinner. B loved the burger so much she had two, which made me feel good considering she got off the bus saying, "PIZZA PIZZA!!" referencing that Little Caesars was waiting for them the previous Monday when they got off the bus.

Another item that occurred during the day was my actual seeing my bill from Cincy Bell. In addition to the bogus $1.99 equipment charge for using my modem to access "zoomtown," my base wireless plan went up a couple bucks. When I was looking at the items on the bill, I noticed my "bundle" discount wasn't listed. I haven't received a hardcopy bill in so long that I hadn't noticed it missing. I just stopped scanning the bill when I came across the abnormality of one of the three services increasing by $2. The details are in the collapsible +/- fields so I never made it down to the +/- that housed my bundle discount credit.

I contacted CB about whether my services were bundled or not (Logically speaking, I'm owed $ if they are, or I can drop stuff without penalty if I'm not, right?) The response I got today was incomprehensible. Whoever responded to my inquiry must not have strong reading skills because nothing I asked was remotely answered while lies about CB sending notification about their service changes were regurgitated. They sent a notice today that I ordered something when I didn't! I have no idea what they claim I ordered, but it was confirmed later today. So I am very frustrated with Cincinnati Bell. I sent a reply stating such and that they either answer my question or give me the direct number of someone who speaks English as his/her primary language.

7:40am teeth cleaning

Making appointments in six months advance is a crap shoot. Had my teeth cleaned in September before J got promoted and before I had an idea when J would be off for maternity.
Well, the reminder that I had showed that I picked a time and date that would be difficult given a couple factors: 1) J returns to work that day 2) Kids will be on spring break that day.
I'm not a morning person when it comes to being responsible for herding three, so I made arrangements for the next week only to get a confirmation notice for the week before original appointment time.
I somehow had two new appointments scheduled when I canceled the original. Thankfully, I called and settled upon the earlier date which was today/yesterday (time is relative).
Since I usually go to bed sometime after 3, being at an appointment at 7:40am means I don't get much sleep and take an early nap. But that didn't happen.
Somehow we went to Target and had a decent day until I found it to be 8pm and I was tired. I slept from 8-ish until after 2-ish when I felt my 2am hunger. Now I'm ready to go back to where I was after I change a now crying D.

It's eleven, and I've been up since 7:30.

Considering yesterday I got up around noon and went to bed around 3 makes, my staying up after ensuring K started his day well, seem off par.
I have a mild sense of wear, but on the whole I feel alert and well for having about 4 hours of sleep.
It's my day off, I might as well enjoy it full tilt.
Hopefully, I'm on the verge of breaking my rut. Been reading The Plateau Effect. It's gotten away from calculus, but it's still interesting nonetheless. It would probably be better as a cd.