Sometimes Random is the way to go…

I have a lot to do today around the house, playing catch up from the chaotic life I’ve led since the end of July.  Oh shoot, who am I kidding?  It was chaotic all through the summer, so really, since the end of softball season.  Although that was chaotic too, but there was only one child in a sport, so it wasn’t AS chaotic. And I have two more weeks before basketball starts but then the holidays will be upon us, and we all know how chaotic that gets.  However, I’m bound and determined not to stress out this holiday.  Heh.  I’m not off to a very good start seeings how I’m already stressing over what to get some people (read my children) because they can’t seem to give me a Christmas wish list.

Ok, so Samara did.  She wants an iPod Nano, a cell phone and clothes.  Guess she’s going to be one well dressed kid after December 25th.  I have some ideas, but they are at that age where just anything won’t work anymore…

On an unrelated note, do you know where my son is right now?  Of course you don’t.  No one really does because he’s been gone since 6:30 this morning.  On a Saturday.  Voluntarily.  He’s ripping out an oil furnace and putting in a heat pump.  Not by himself, of course.  But I bet you gathered that already.  I mean, yes, Matthew is very talented, but I’m not sure his knowledge includes making the heat work in someone’s house.  Prior to today, I think all he knew about heat was that he needed to tell me to turn it up or down because he’s not yet mastered adjusting the thermostat himself.  But I don’t really want him to.

But anyway, he’s helping the boy with a job.  The boy entertained them both while I went out with some friends who had come in from out of town and when I got back they were wrapping presents and had made cookies and Matthew had said that he would help out with the project.  Even before the dollar signs were presented to him.  That doesn’t really shock me about Matthew.  He likes to help and do manly man stuff; he does it all the time when we visit my dad.  But I’m not sure if you know this or not but it’s freakin’ cold outside.  And he left at 6:30 this morning.  And it’s a dirty job and a LONG job… at least 12 hours.

Sometimes I wonder if they switched babies at the hospital, because I’m just not sure that he’s my kid sometimes.  Like this morning?  I got up to get him up, say hello to the boy, shove them out the door and I went right back to bed.

At some point in time they came back to get Matthew’s inhaler of which I had to get up and find it for him even though I hollered from the bedroom that it was on my desk, said goodbye again, and went right back to bed.  I didn’t get up until 10:30 and only then because Samara’s friend was knocking up for her.  She was still asleep too.

It was nice.

Sleep hasn’t been in abundance here of late since they started me on ADHD meds.  Yes, you read that right, I am now certified ADHD.  What do you think about that?  I think that I’m crazy and the meds work really well… like I don’t blow up at my kids any more and I get so much more work done and I can focus on what I have to do and my kids and what people are writing and saying.  It’s great.  The downfall is that it causes insomnia and loss of appetite.

Ok, the loss of appetite isn’t bad at all, really.  While I do have to force myself to eat and when I do eat, it’s not much, I’ve managed to drop 15 pounds over the last 3 weeks.  But I do feel bad because the boy took me to a Chinese buffet for lunch the other day and I didn’t get his money’s worth.  But then again, I was raised that way and still tell my children the same thing when we go to a buffet.

So, yeah, I’m ADHD, been on meds for 3 weeks and after the first two weeks, it got better.  The first two weeks I thought I was going to go crazy with no sleep and no eating and feeling like I was in some kind of fog.  I can’t believe I managed to hold it together for so long.

And the meds they put me on?  They aren’t ones that I have to take everyday so I can take a “vacation” from being drug induced.

No, I didn’t take them today.  Can you tell?

Ok, so I don’t think I have any more random in me.  Well, I could.  But I have a goal today of cleaning out the craft room which has become the junk room and get rid of all the clothes that we no longer fit in and/or like.  That room is driving me crazy and has been for quite some time.  I don’t think I would care if you couldn’t see it when you walked in the front door or had to walk through it to get to anywhere else in the house.  But you do and so I need to get it done.

And Samara’s cleaning her room today, too.  That should be fun.  We’ll blast Hannah Montanna, the Cheetah Girls, High School Musical, and the Jonas Brothers since Matthew’s not here and get er done.

And by the time the boys are done, we should be done and then I don’t have to worry about anything else for… oh… 24 hours.

Until next time…