highs and lows

Highs:

- spent Friday and Saturday babysitting children that I've sat for since high school, which means I changed their diapers and now they are listening to the Jonas Brothers (maybe that part should go under "lows")

- received a hefty check for babysitting

- spent much of Sunday curled up with a book and endless cups of chai tea

- went for long walks with my mom 

- discovering how delicious plain oatmeal+1 tsp peanut butter+1 tsp maple syrup+a few crushed walnuts+cinnamon is

- got a free ipod shuffle 

- watched You've Got Mail with the cutest parents ever (mine!)

- was treated to a delicious lunch of calamari and hickory grilled grouper at Mike's American Grill, part of the BEST chain of restaurants everrrr

- iced mocha with my pseudo little sister Joanna

- saw the movie "The Switch" w/ my mom, Aunt Kathy and Joanna

- seeing my friend Chris the happiest I've ever seen him when I met him and his gf Emily at Barnes and Noble (location was also a high)

- my mom sent me home with a few groceries PLUS two chairs and a table for me to fix up

Lows:

- runny nose, itchy eyes, sore throat, headache. all weekend.

- hormones. cramps. craving salt and chocolate 24/7 and (mostly) denying myself of them

- not being with my guy all weekend

- missing church because I felt miserable

- "Voices in Summer" by Rosamunde Pilcher (one of my fav authors) was completely predictable and rather dull

- not seeing enough of my daddy

- both of my grandmas getting older

- I forgot to take the hall table up to NOVA with me (I was going to paint it there)

- trying to figure out how to inexpensively make chicken enchiladas for my small group (which ain't so small) and deciding to buy beef instead and those enchilada kits....discovering when I got home that the kits come with ITSY BITSY tortillas which meant I didn't really have enough for everyone and THEN discovering that I didn't have my baking dishes because I had taken food to a friend's house and hadn't gotten my dishes back yet and THEN calling a million people trying to borrow me some daggone Pyrex and not getting through to a single person and THEN all of them calling back at the same time and THEN Andy comes home in the middle of all this and I haven't seen him in days and I'm torn between trying to figure out dinner and attacking my man, so then I took the advice of a friend (a High starts here) and gave up on the idea of taking enchiladas, spent a solid half hour snuggling and catching up with my husband and combined my taco seasoned ground beef with other people's "mexican" contributions to create a taco salad smorgasbord.