Nothing to See Here…

(but say it with me, NOT IN THE GOOD WAY)

I’m a totally sucky blogger lately.  Really.  I haven’t had time for anything.  Here, let me give you a glimpse of my life:

1. My father-in-law broke his ankle and this has sent us into a tizzy because he is the one who watches Little-Bits (my baby Raena).
2. With the broken ankle, we’ve had an elevated leg with nothing covering the toes.  The fucking toenail is so in need of a trim, I’m just paralyzed by the sight of it.  I want it to go away, but it’s been there for four weeks.
3. Father-in-law had surgery to pin the ankle, plus a few days later, a fake heart attack.  Not that he faked a heart attack, but we thought it was a heart attack and it ended up it wasn’t.  So between is immobility and driving him to doctors appointments and hospitals and these fake heart attacks and whatnot, he’s been keeping us busy.  Because he lives with us, you know.
4. Except?  Maybe not for long!  There IS a God or else wishing on stars and dandelion fluff really works.  Because he’s been thinking of spending more time up north with his sister, who has some health issues.  So he’s going to slowly start transitioning his time up there as his ankle heals.  This means no more groady toenail staring me in the face and no more OATMEAL BOWLS!!!
5. But I have to stop doing the happy dance because it is very hard on my husband who loves his father a lot, so let’s not talk of it again (except? no oatmeal bowls!).
6. So since he’s our nanny (manny?) and has been immobile for 4 weeks, we’ve been cobbling together child-care day after day…. finding strangers on the street and saying “Here, she drools but she’s very cute, will you watch her today?”  I’ve had to work from home a lot.  Stuff like that.  In the mean time, we accelerated Project Nanny forward (since we were planning on hiring a nanny for June, July, and August anyway).
7. So we did a bunch of nanny interviews.  My 4 year old, Jadyn, wanted me to hire the one with the prettiest shoes.  She’s her father’s daughter, obviously.
8. And I made AN OFFER tonight!! Hooray!  An offer!!!  FOR A NANNY.  Me, JustLinda, hiring a nanny (I never thunk I’d be the nanny hiring type).
9. Work has been SOOOO busy.  My boss, whom I love, is making me work HARD, the bastard (but? a bastard whom I love).  Oh, work work work.  Damn job.  Why can’t I just slave over a hot internet all day instead of having to work?  (I love that phrase… my husband came home and said “What have you been doing?” and I told him I was slaving over a hot internet all evening - ha!  I’m very funny.)
10. AND LAST???  Vacation!  JUST AROUND THE CORNER!!!  I’m serious.  I leave next Friday.  If you know my address, you can come rob my house.  I mean, father-in-law will be here but he can’t run with a broken ankle, so you’re safe.  But?  You’ll have to see the toenail.  I’m sorry.  Back to vacation, though - it’s going to be GREAT but it just might be someone else’s version of HELL on EARTH.  My parents rented a huge beach house and we are ALL (me, husband, parents, sisters, brother, spouses, grown children, small and medium children, babies - 2 of them - and 1 little in-utero child that is not mine) will stay and sleep and live there for one week.  It has its own pool!  And beach!  VACATION all I ever wanted….

So now you know why I’ve been a bad, bad blogger lately.  So busy, so much stress.  Plus, my husband and I?  Fighting.  Not pretty.  Could be the stress causing the fighting, could be the fighting causing more stress.  Who knows.  I have no fighting energy left in me so we’re just in that in between stage where we’re not all made-up, but there is no fighting going on.  I think it’s called the ‘resigned to marriage’ stage or something.  But I want to get back to being that lovey-dovey couple everyone hates.  We’ll have to do that before vacation, I think.

Thanks for hanging with me through all the craziness.  I promise to try to put two coherent thoughts together sometime really soon, maybe try to write a REAL blog post instead of a “why you should probably stop reading my blog” blog post.

Lastly, I leave you with this - have you checked out my blogroll?  Slacker that I am, I added a few new links over there.  Seriously, check these folks out because they entertain the crap out of me.  I think you’d like them too.

I have to sign off now.  I’m going upstairs because if I have to look at that toenail for even a minute longer, I’m going to go all Kathy-Bates-in-Misery on his lame self.