christmas…

christmas is over.

things went well.  spent a few hours at my brothers house. now, a week of off-time looms and the only question is what to do first? my house is in serious need of cleaning, my laundry needs to be caught up, my room needs to be organized so that i can move in it AND find stuff…what a concept. i want to keep dancing during this break, don’t want to lose any of what i’ve gained over the last months…

my nephew is in  a bit of trouble and now i need to try to talk to him and make sure he doesn’t do anything stupid. we had asked him to go for holiday dinner last night and he said he might go, then took off with his friends and didn’t come home last night. the tides are changing again, i can feel it. goddess, please allow me the opportunity to give this young man the strength to face his wrongs and do the honorable thing. let this be a catalyst to putting him on a more honest and hard-working path, not the beginning of a long and hard road towards crime and anti-authoritarian bitterness. he’s so bright and he deserves so much better…

added later….

i had to stop writing this entry because just as i was typing, my nephew’s friend came over who had also been arrested and i wanted to talk to him. i wanted to tell him to tell nephew that things aren’t so bad and he needed to be here to face the music. he called me shortly thereafter to say that he was coming home. this makes me glad, we will see if he can keep to it.

apparently, i let my guard down too soon…i appear to have caught a cold, and i am none too pleased about that. at least it’s not the flu, but there does seem to be an over abundance of snot, a funny, plugged up talking voice, and muccus is, apparently, my friend. ew. i hate being sick. of course, that didn’t stop me today. i pretty much refuse to be sick all week. at least the snot is clear. if it turns bad colors, then it will be bad. i will rest the next couple of days, but them, i am refusing to be sick anymore. think good thoughts for me.

my mom’s procedure to get her angioplasty done is thursday. i need to be well for that. i would never do anything to compromise her chances of staying healthy. if anything, she will have to give me a wide berth due to sickness. for now, lots of water and i might dig out some emergen-c’s to drink and keep my vitamin c level up. and echinacea, before things get out of hand. yeah, that’s it.

i went shopping today. the kids had managed to break some of their x-box controllers and there was a good sale on them, so i went to get a couple. one wireless and one wired. i also got some stuff i desperately needed for organizing my space in my bedroom. it’s a little box with smaller boxes in it to put shoes in, and then another on top of that which is just shelves. this helps me maximize the space in the bottom of my closet and keep stuff nice and neat rather than the cluster it usually ends up =) could be the dust that’s causing my nose so many problems too. or the dog hair. how can someone be so whiny without really whining, you ask? not hard….and oh, so subtle =) yeah, right.

i think that’s about it. i am off this week and almost bored already. i wanna clean my house, but there is an inevitability of it becoming a train wreck again if i do so that discourages me before i even begin the task. then there’s the not feeling so well thing and my motivation is less than nill.

my daughter is having teenage relationship drama. wow. who knew kids could be so demanding at fifteen and sixteen? and they act like each little thing is the end of the world. wow. she cried today and everything. but, at least she’s been home, and she’s reasonably with me. she is doing pretty good.

that’s all.

peace.