tired, crabby, stressed, and in pain

tired--as always

crabby--sadly at times goes along w/ being perpetually tired

stressed--money is thin and my tutoring is lessening because it's getting to the summer for most kids

in pain--not sure what i did but man my lower back (nerve damage area) is really hurting today!!!

beyond these lovely things, all is going quite well if you ask...

dh and i are going to start a greeting cards business,

well...at least that is the plan

sadly his schedule this last month and this coming month do not allow him to attend church

that always is a hard thing for him and me as i get to go it alone...

i have 6 days until my check up on my broken foot when they will hopefully tell me that i'm

all good and can stop wearing the walking cast

then i'll be able to wear heels out of fashion and desire rather than necessity

the girls are getting bigger all the time, we're spending more time outside so their hair is

lightening up quite a bit, still don't think they'll ever be platinum like i was when i was their age, but it's definately lighter than it was

i'm going to be "brave" and lemon my hair so that i can get mine a little lighter

it's gotten darker w/ each pregnancy and i'm really not in love w/ the color

but we all know i'm just way too lazy to do anything chemical about it...lemon i figure is

just accelerating the sun so it wont' be a big deal and i won't be hard to maintain if i decide to...

tutoring is of course getting slower, as it's the end of the year for most, but seriously

some kids get super summer crazy and do very silly things

last week i had a kid log in seriously like 20 times that did not need help at all

it drove me bonkers!!!

it is finished!

last night was the final show for the cruise of love!!!
it's one of those bitter sweet things, i'm glad it's over because it's really stretched me thin with everthing else i've had going on, but i'm totally going to miss it because i got adult interaction/conversation and got to do something i love...
oh, i was paid a very nice complement imo after saturday night's performance...a middle aged gentleman on his way out said i should come to the hale and try out there and that i could've been his daughter in beauty & the beast...i'm assuming for his age and appearance he's playing maurice...how freaking awesome would it have been to play belle since b&b is in my top 5 shows and that is the character i'd want to play...oh soaking in the compliment LOL
i'm not sure if i'd want to do hale unless i got one of their paid parts because it's such a time commitment that it would take even more of my time than this play did and this one was hard enough, juggling the kids, work, and time with rich when he was home...probably just going to stick to vcp unless hale has auditions open up for another of my top 5's which probably won't happen because i don't see them doing my fair lady, into the woods, the wizard of oz, or phantom of the opera anytime soon LOL...i don't want much do i ;)
i think as our kids get older i'll try and do more stuff like this depending what they've got going on so that i can have my hobby too...oh, and lastnight, joseph (bruce in the play) told me that i should become one of vcp's directors...the thought is actually kind of appealing, but i'm not sure if i'm ready to bite that off just yet...if i've seen it i can work with it and finess it, but i don't know if i could visualize all of it on my own to tweak what was in the script...it's something to kick around though!

only 3 more to go

fri, sat, and mon and then this run of the show i'm in is done and i will be going on hiatus until august when the auditions for the halloween shows comes up...so much craziness going on in the next few months that that is not one of the things i want to add on top of it...and there really aren't any shows i'm super interested in until the halloween show to be in, see yes, be in no...

my foot is doing better than i expected it to, have to wear my walking cast for 4 wks, then depending how my check up goes i either have to wear it 2 more or i can stop wearing it...i'm hoping for the 2nd obviously LOL

movers are coming on monday to pack up and take away the 1st shippment of stuff that is going to denmark for my il's...basically the stuff they won't NEED btwn now and when they get there...and then next month on the 20th i think they'll come and pack up all the stuff that is going to be stored and put it in the two rooms designated for storage so the house will be fairly empty and then what little we have will be moving up stairs...it will be interesting to see what it all looks like...the furniture is staying of course, but all the "fluff" is going to be gone...fil asked me what things i wanted them to pack up and store...i told him if they'd feel bad if it got broken or damaged it needed to be put away LOL...not that i plan on letting my children run wild, but things do happen...

OH, dh asked #1 and #2 this morning if they wanted a baby bro or baby sister, they both said yes...hello, i just told him 2 nights ago i don't want to get preg until oct so i can do the halloween shows!!! LOL i think it was really one if his was to start getting comfy w/ the idea of another, he's been really anti for awhile...he wants more, but wasn't sure when he wanted more...#2 hasn't been as easy as #1 was...so it will be interesting how things play out...i still of course have the iud (which i'm in LOVE w/ btw) and would have to get that removed before things went anywhere in that dept...but i will admit that it's nice to know that he's thinking about it as a probable rather than a maybe...kwim?

i am now the "proud" new owner of...

a broken foot

i broke it tonight w/in the first 5 min of the last act of the play...at least it was the last act and not the 1st right?

we have 5 more shows to do and i have every intention of doing it, just may take a little extra finess working all the scenes on crutches, i'm hoping maybe i can swap for a cane, that would be much easier to work with...

thankfully i only have an accessory that i carry (clip board) and the only once to i really pick anything up, which i can easily direct another on staged to do for me...

well, it's 1:30 in the morning, i got home from the er about 30 min ago, and my children will be getting up in...oh...5 to 5:30 hrs so i'd better get me and my stinking broken foot to bed

i did make it to 29 w/o having a broken bone, well, other than a toe i broke a few years back, but there isn't much you can do about a toe LOL

so, i'll admit it...

i'm in LOVE w/ a private adoption agency!!!

http://www.westsandsadoption.org/index.php

i made the mistake of looking at their videos...man now i want to go out and get me a baby from china, haiti, and/or ethipoia!!!

update on being blind sided

turns out it was almost nothing, in 2 sessions i failed to engage the way i normally do, but the sessions were not like the ones i normally do (diff type of question) so that is to be modified but a couple days later i got my promo from tutor 2 to tutor 3!!!

6 more shows

i'm 2/3 of the way done w/ the run of the play i'm currently in...it's been an interesting ride but things are pretty well going now as far as the play itself...it's still a pain managing child care and such but the boys in my sunday school class rock and are all very surprised that they're getting paid to basically watch tv, movies, or do homework while my kids sleep LOL

it's kinda sillly the guy i play opposit and another cast member that is younger (he's 38 she's 21) the age difference shouldn't be an issue, things were going ok btwn them (somehow i became matchmaker communicator btwn them...so jr high LOL) but he's really not pulling his wt in the world of friendship (that's all they are currently and in jeapordy of loosing that as it is) he just doesn't get that a girl, be she a friend or more than that, deserves more than last minute consideration and she shouldn't have to put all the effort into it...this is why he is 38 and not married LOL...speaking of him, his family came to the show saturday night and they all picked at him later to see if i was single...he knew it was coming, i told him he should've told them he was playing opposit a married chick but he didn't so he deserves the digs he got right LOL

i'm excited about the show i want to do this fall...they're running 2 shows at the same time for halloween, hotel frankenstein and shadowbrook mansion, both have a vampress type character and i really hope to snag one of those spots, but i'll be on hiatus until the auditions for those because of all the transitions that are going to be going on w/ the il's getting ready to leave for denmark and us moving upstairs and such...that and i've been running myself ragged so i need to take some time to recoup physically...it's been several weeks since i've exercised and i really need to start that back up again, but i'm just now starting to feel good enough to even start it up again...not sure what i'll be doing, but i've got to do something...i really want to get my body back into really good shape before we start for another addition to the family (supposedly next feb...but we'll see on the timing could be sooner, could be later)

well, there is a MOUNTAIN of laundry that needs to be folded so off i go

the doggy trial run

so the il's went to hawaii last thursday to do some family related stuff (no not a vacation but they are getting in some fun things while they're there) so i've obviously had buster since then...lo and behold the dog apparently swallowed a chunk of his rawhide bone the night before he left, i did not find this out from them until friday or saturday!!! buster vomited on the floor mutliple times, on the couch and leather chair once, AND pooped on the floor like 5 or 6 times!!!

can we all say that i am so NOT happy about these things?!!!

on sat morn i cut a HUGE matted clump of poo out of his bum hair (yes, i was gagging...funny how when you get paid for something like that you don't gag, but when you're not you do LOL) but his bum hairs were just NASTY and i pretty much refused to give him a bath and deal w/ it, so yesterday (monday) i took him to a groomers and had a sanitary patch done, his nails clipped, and they also cut out some other poopy mats (smaller than the one i did on saturday) it cost me $20 but it was so totally worth it to not have to look at that and have it drop icky things on the carpet for 5 more days until my il's come home and take care of it...

even better though is that since he got cleaned up he's finally started acting normal (the rawhide really caused problems and he was depressed that they were gone) so now he's pretty happy again and seems to finally have stopped pooing on the floor, i've not had to clean any of that up since yesterday morning...although, in hindsight, i should've spent the extra 12- 14 $ and had a regular groom job done on him because he's still kinda stinky