I don’t wanna.

It’s back to the grind stone. Ugh. So many things to get back to in the real world, so very little energy I want to expend on them.

• Getting up early. Okay, really? I only got to sleep in late twice in the 11 days I had off. I had the girls most of the time, so I got to luxuriate in bed until all of – what, 7 a.m.? – before being rudely yanked out of bed. Then there was Black Friday and then two days of heavily sedated bliss. Ahhh, night time cold pills and blackout shades, I love you both.
• School lunches. The Friday before Thanksgiving break Gracie was home sick from school and all last week her school district was off. It’s been a nice break from the monotony of packing lunch after lunch after lunch. Did I ever really think packing school lunches was charming and a fun bonding experience? Again: ugh.
• Never ending conferences. Go ahead and guess what I’m preparing for next week? No, don’t guess. I can’t talk about it anyway.
• Kidney stones that won’t go away. I have a doctor’s appointment this afternoon to see what’s going on with my rather persistent kidney stone. It won’t go away and it won’t let me exercise. I’m starting to think we might need to blast this sucker into smithereens.
• My running regime. I had to temporarily stop the running thing because of aforementioned kidney stone. For some reason, my urologist seems to think that taking a vicodin every time I run is a little bit unnecessary. But he wasn’t caught performing a ballerina’s plie to get his jeans on after Thanksgiving dinner, so back to running it is. I’ll just have to live with the pain.
• Normalcy in the bedroom. Hey now! Get your minds out of the gutter! I had my bedroom all disheveled and mishmashed and pulled apart while I painted. (Hey, maybe that’s why my kidney stone tried to chew its way out of my insides this weekend!) I have almost everything put straight again, I just need help moving my Very! Heavy! bed back against the wall. My neighbor is supposed to come help me put it back tonight. I don’t know what I’m more excited about, my pretty pretty walls, or the fact that I will no longer bang my shin against my footboard because it’s about two feet further out from where it’s supposed to be.

Yeah, so there very many things I do not want to face this week but there is one good thing: we’re a little bit closer to Christmas. I just need to make it through two more weeks of grinding through the regular schedule and I can have a whole ‘nother week off.

I do believe in happy thoughts. I do, I do, I do!

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