TANGIBLE

Friday. Day 2. Last Work Day

They are here! They have the house to themselves today until I get home. Morgan has a half day but may or may not go to school. Either way it will feel sooooo good to be finished at 1 today. Fridays typically are an early day for me. I say that out loud for the universe to hear because I think I haven’t been able to leave the last 4 Fridays before 3.

Tonight I want an easy peasy night. Dwayne should be getting home around 3 if the roads are good. I want a quiet night. Maybe pizza. Definitely poker. Can it be declared jammie time as soon as I get home?

Thank you.

Thursday. Day 3. Work Day.

Grands arrive today! I won’t see them though and Morgan will be on Bell Boy duty. Today is a regular work day. Usually Thursdays are pretty quiet in the clinic but I expect that we are so close to Christmas we are going to be getting a lot of last minute calls. I work only until 2 today but have to go immediately to do the last food shop. Please pity me. It is a Costco run…

I think in total I should be home for about 45 minutes before I have to leave for our CA Appreciation Party. That’s right….a night all about people appreciating me! Oh..and the other 5 CA’s I work with.

My clinic owner and head honcho extraordinaire has given us a shopping a spree tonight. Ok..stand down and remember that it is DECEMBER 22 and she wants us to meet at Southgate where we will be handed envelopes with apparently real cash money…then given 1 hour…

ON DECEMBER freakin 22’nd!!!!! OMG….can you imagine what this is going to look like? I can and I think I may need to medicate….

After our big shop, we head to a nearby restaurant where we will feast our eyes on what each other managed to fight the crowds for….and drink.

I plan to use all my best ninja shopping techniques…

Wednesday. Day 4. Work Day

Damn, another day I have to do my hair. This is why I love those blow outs so much. Wash n go really simplifies my life. Though… I do have a work mate that has done the shaved Sinead head better known as the “Britney” for those of you who are not children of the 80’s… I am seriously thinking she has the right idea about hair maintenance. A shaved head is definitely low maintenance…ask Dwayne.

Last big push before the Grands arrive! Time to change the sheets on all the beds Sarah!! Let go go go!!

Morgan you are on garbage and sink duty! Make them sparkle!

Lola….u definitely will be getting a bath today. Sorry.

Wednesday’s To Do List

Make pitcher of sangria

Plan wardrobe for 1 week. Limited closet access…..move said wardrobe to Morgan's room.

Make sure there is nothing disgusting residing in Morgan's room….TOP PRIORITY!!

drink sangria.

Tuesday. Day 5. Work Day.

I have a great schedule that was negotiated when I first interviewed for this job. I work normally from 8:30 AM until 2PM most afternoons. This allows for the travel time I need to go get Morgan from school (AOB) and then turn around drive right back and deposited him at his job 5 blocks away from my clinic.

At first I thought I was making a really responsible decision in having him close by in case I was needed. Not to mention both the clinic and his work are 10 min from home. 7 if I time the lights and LRT right.

4 months of this driving gig has worn me out. It isn’t the travel time or the location. It isn’t even going to pick him up at 9:30 at night that bugs me…..it is quite literally the fact that I drive down the same road up to 7 times a day that is killing me.

It could be worse. He will be driving next year…

Tuesday’s To Do List

Dinner in crock pot at  7am

Deliver cookies after work

Make room in closet for gram’s velour sweat suits..

My home time tonight is only 6:30 – 9pm. I am thinking this might be my last chance to get Christmas cards up and out of the house.

Monday. Day 6. Work Day.

Today is a shower day. ok…wait a minute. let me clarify by saying everyday is a shower day but today is a WASH. BLOW DRY.FLAT IRON day…this takes minutes out of my life that I could be doing far far more important things with. Things like sleeping or walking the dog. Instead, and only because my public has come to expect it…today I will do my hair.

Mondays suck royal hairy buttocks. I never ever sleep Sunday night and as a result am usually just begging for Monday to get finished already by like 9 am.

But that is a secret…shhhh…people at work think I am a friggin ray of sunshine. Especially on a Monday.

Today after my first shift as a Chiropractic Ninja Assistant, I will start shift #2 as chauffeur to the luckiest children alive. These are of course the children who, along with their father, plan to surprise me with a trip to Mexico for Christmas….right? sigh…whatever….

On todays list when I get home is clean the fireplace, the furnace and finish all the laundry and ironing. Do-able I say……

7 Days of Counting Down

Goodness knows I have been a slacker at this blogging thing. I just can’t seem to get my thoughts together enough to be interesting to myself let alone anyone else.

The good news is all the Christmas shopping is done. Even the great Madonnart Bday prezzie is wrapped and waiting for her to drive it back to Kelowna where she will secretly unwrap it at her first chance. Like I don’t know…

Unfortunately there is not a cookie is sight. A fact that has nothing to do with lack of interest in sugar but more to do with neither of the children ever being home to bake with. Where is the fun when u bake solo….oh right..that is what tequila is for.

Speaking of Tequila…WTH!! When did it suddenly get so flippin expensive? Apparently it has taken me 20 years to get through Dwayne’s hoarded stash and now having been forced to enter a liquor store…well all I can say is that Cognac is cheaper. Don’t worry mother. I still have your back.

Enough about that. More about me.

Today the countdown begins.

7 days of anticipation. 4 sleeps till the Grands arrive. 3 days until the last big food shop.

Sunday to do list:

Vacuum.Wash Floors. Sterilize bathrooms. Wash Carpets. Back Entrance.

Most importantly…put all miscellaneous crap away.

I have a secret….I leave my jewellery EVERYWHERE… occasionally a walk about is needed to refill the jewellery box so I may go forth and accessorize once again…