I jinxed myself

I live large here.  I’m on the edge.  There’s never a dull moment.

Let me count the ways that my life is a thrill a minute.

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I must have shamed myself into something with yesterday’s post.  Monday was a day of unparalleled productivity and goodness.  Kind of.

• Courtney slept through the night and didn’t wake up until 9:30 Monday morning.  This was awesome but would have been awesomer had I known and could have slept in myself.
• I actually worked out.  I did the 30 Day Shred, Level 1.  I almost died.  Three minutes into it.  If I had one of those “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” do-thingys, I would have used it.  I couldn’t get off the floor when I was done.
• I tried to go to the post office yesterday.  Yeah.  Right.  Epic fail.  Turns out Monday was “the busiest shipping day of the year.”  Who knew?  Grandmom may or may not get her gift before Christmas.  I’m just saying.
• I peeled some carrots and a cucumber and ATE THEM.  Yup, I ate veggies.
• I saved $30 at Publix, that was 1/3 of my total bill.  I was pretty proud of myself.  I used coupons and Southern Savers and played the grocery game.  Turns out if you do your homework, you can actually save money.
• I ordered the Christmas picture.  You may or may not get that before 2010.
• I “made” dinner.  There were veggies.

Seriously, isn’t my life exciting???  I wanted to try out a kickboxing class but with Courtney’s weird sleep schedule, that didn’t work.  But, I got in some exercise, so that’s what matters.  Kind of.  Not really.

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UPDATE: I write at night (usually) and have it automatically post in the morning.  I wrote this up last night, a little different version, but didn’t schedule it because I wasn’t happy with it.  I think there was some cosmic karma thing that came to bite me in the ass for getting all cocky after a full nights rest.

Courtney slept like ass last night.  I’m not 100% sure what ass would sleep like but I’m pretty sure it would resemble our night.

She woke up at 1:30 and didn’t fall back to sleep until I don’t know when.  I had the pillow over my head in an attempt to drown out the screams.  Paul brought her into our room, which we know doesn’t work.  She doesn’t sleep like that.  Nor do we.

That’ll teach me to get all cocky about sleep.

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Sometimes I get a little carried away with the sarcasm.  I talk about what an “exciting” life I lead.  I’m not complaining.  I love my life.  And I let the monotony of it get to me sometimes.

But yesterday something tragic happened to one of us.  To one of the moms and the bloggers in our little blogging world.  Her youngest, her 2 year old boy, drown in their pool.  They’d just recently moved to Florida, just a few weeks ago.  They’re in their new home.  I don’t know the circumstances of their tragedy, but it doesn’t really matter.  I can’t begin to fathom what she’s going through.  I feel terrible for saying that I hope I never do know, but there’s a feeling deep down inside that makes me breathe a sigh of relief that it wasn’t us.  Is that terrible?  Maybe a little but it’s also a little normal, I’d think.

I’m going to hold Paul and Courtney a little closer, a little tighter.  My life may not be exciting but I’m thankful for what I have, the love I have for my family.  My beautiful girl and my handsome and funny husband.  The health of my parents and grandmother and family.  I think it’s so easy to take what we have for granted, to get caught up in the daily crap.  The lack of sleep, the presents we still have to buy, the silliness in the lack of water and exercise we get.  It’s easy to get wrapped up in that, it’s safe.

It’s especially important that we remember those we love and be thankful for what we have.  Because sometimes, life really just takes a bite out of you.