...and now Weekend Update with Dennis Miller Amy Warren

I had a somewhat uneventful weekend. I already blogged about my shopping experience for all of Emily's school supplies and new clothes. Still gotta pick up those dry erase markers. Ugh.

Adam got a call on Saturday morning that he is to report to the office on Monday morning to find out where he's working for the next couple of weeks. They've finished 1/2 of the bridge he was working on in central Illinois and they wont start on the other half until the 15th so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that he'll be in town now for a while. That would be sweet because Emily has a back to school night this Wednesday so Adam would get to come too. Also, her first day is the week after so he can hear all about her first day straight from the horse's mouth. Whoohoo.

Today I did some cleaning and Adam and I got groceries. Seriously, could food be any more expensive??? I was appalled at the price of basic necessities. A 5lb. bag of potatoes? $4.30. A tub of butter? $5.98! We had about a half a cart full of stuff and it came to $103. Even the teenage bagger said, "How much???" to his fellow teenage cashier because we didn't have a lot of stuff.

I can tell that Emily's starting to get a little nervous about her first day at a new school with new people. She tends to clam up a little when you talk about it. Now I'm just waiting for the night terrors. That's right, night terrors. She tends to get them when she starts getting stressed out, like when it's close to the first day of school. They are a pretty scary thing to go through with her because one minute you're sound asleep and the next minute you hear her screaming and crying like never before. She'll get up and run into our room and all Adam and I can do is stand there and look at her in disbelief. She looks back at us like she's never, ever seen us before and even like she's scared of us. She doesn't want to be touched or consoled but will sometimes sit on the bed next to you while she freaks out. This lasts for a very long 15 minutes or so, sometimes longer and then she just calms down and goes back to bed like nothing ever happened. In the meantime Adam and I can't get back to sleep because our hearts are pounding. The next morning she has no recollection of what happened during the night. It's the weirdest thing. I warned one of our sitters about it. I'd hate to have one of the girls here to watch the kids overnight while I'm at work and have that happen to them.

Tomorrow I'm applying for a different position at the hospital. Trauma registration. It is still a part-time job but the hours are better, 6pm to midnight. This would allow me to be home when Em. goes off to school and comes home. Also in the winter, when Adam is laid-off, he can get up at 2 or 3 in the morning to go plow snow with the bro-in-law without having to worry about me being at work and having no one to watch the kids. I will be working a few more days a pay period but I think having the better schedule will be great, not to mention the extra pay! I hope I get it. I haven't told anyone in my department yet. I'm just so tired of my supervisor scheduling me for whatever shift she damn well pleases. It's getting very old and very tiring trying to keep some sort of a sleep schedule. One schedule I literally worked at least once on each shift and when I would sleep I would wake up every two hours in a panic thinking I was supposed to be at work. I didn't know if I was coming or going. It sucked!

I had a brilliant idea last night at work. I've been wanting to have the family over to play cards so everyone can see our new apartment. I decided to do a "house warming/bon voyage/anniversary" party. My sister and brother-in-law celebrated 20 years of marriage this last May and they are taking a vacation to celebrate at the end of September/first week of October. The last time they went on a vacation was their honeymoon. I'm soooo not kidding. They haven't even taken a weekend getaway. They're going to Las Vegas and then to Anaheim to Disneyland. I booked their flight and hotel last weekend, so now it's official. Anyway, I thought it would be fun to have a party for the immediate family and close cousins the weekend before they leave. I'm going to do a casino night theme. I really wanted to throw a big surprise anniversary party for them in May but Adam wasn't back to work yet and I just didn't have the funds. This will have to do. If I had an extra $300 or so and could rent a nice place cheap I would still do it and keep the casino night theme and invite our entire family and sis and BIL's friends. Sadly I don't have a money tree growing on my deck so a smaller party with close family only will have to do. They deserve it. I'm so stoked! A huge party with all of our family would be so awesome though. On my mom's side our family is huge. Let's just say I'm the youngest of 34 grand kids and there's even more great-grand kids and I think we're up to around 7 or 8 great-great grand kids, maybe more. There's considerably less on my dad's side and when you factor in the fact that my sister and I don't socialize with about 80% of them, those numbers really drop. There's a lot of scurvy peeps on that side of the fam. *shiver*

On a completely unrelated note, did you know raw vegetables tend to get your innards moving, if you know what I mean? Did I tell you I ate almost an entire bag of cauliflower a few hours ago while I watched "Paranormal State"? Yeah...so I've got that going for me right now. Explains why I'm still up at 2:30am, eh?

Finally in closing, I want to give a shout-out to my new blog-reader, Lindsay. After checking out her myspace page and blog I think we used to be conjoined twins. She's much braver than I, though. She's about to have her THIRD baby which is her THIRD son! Yikes! Good luck with that Lindsay! Next time you feel like you want to scream, (and I'm sure that's often) you can scream into my blog!