What a Week

This week has been long and crazy, and I am glad it is almost over!

Monday started out with a suicidal man ending up shot off an overpass by the freeway causing it to be completely shut down. A main freeway being closed in Monday morning rush hour traffic in Phoenix means complete and total gridlock. Nobody is going anywhere anytime soon. My poor baby was stuck for three and half hours in this mess.

Wednesday, my day off, started out at the DES office trying to get my kid's insurance straightened out. Royal.Pain.In.My.Ass. There was another persons entire file accidentally scanned into mine. I am talking birth certificates, attestation of citizenship, proof of residence- the whole nine yards. Makes me completely confident in our government by the way! Bye-bye three hours of my day. Grocery shopping equals Bye-Bye to another 2 hours, and before you know it, it's 7:00! Made dinner, cleaned up, collapsed on my bed waiting for the kid's movie to finish and to get them tucked into bed.

They came running into my room when it was over, jumped onto my bed and were playing until about 9:15. I went to get their pj's, and smelled a weird chemical smell as soon as I stepped into the hall. As soon as I said." What's that smell? It smells like something is burning." I heard Ernesto yell, "oh shit!" Let me just say- if you leave a pan on the stove boiling to sterilize some plastic sippy cup lids and forget about it? This will be a very long evening for you! Before we even made it down the hall, the fire alarms started blaring. I ran the kids outside while Ernesto got the flaming disaster put out, and opened the doors and started fans going to air out the house. Turns out, when plastic catches on fire it releases chemicals that are not good for you, and Poison Control advises you remain outside your residence for at least 2 hours. I ended up sending my kids home with my wonderful Mother, and then Ernesto and I went and saw Your Highness while we were waiting to be able to crawl into our bed!

Needless to say too many early mornings and late nights have made a very tired me. The kids are spending the night with their Yia-Yia, and I am so thankful I get to sleep in tomorrow! 

Make it a great Friday everyone!

xoxoxo

Work Woes

It is Thursday morning, I am two cups of coffee in and realizing it is nowhere near the level of a caffeine jolt I need today. I don't know if it is left-over edginess from my brief stint into being a non-smoker yesterday that left me with no doubt in my mind that I am just not ready for that journey or the general stress of our current office transition but I have suddenly found myself with a fuse that is far too short.

We have outgrown our current office and have had a new location in the works for months now, and the drop-dead date was May 1st. Unfortunately there are uncontrollable permit issues with the city, and that date has been pushed at least 6-8 weeks. In anticipation of this change we hired another person for the front office to be trained by the time we moved. In our already cramped quarters we added an additional body, and now for the foreseeable future I have become a man without a country! I have a make-shift workstation in the break room that has an extremely slow connection to our main server, and a phone that only works 50% of the time. Please join me in a moment of silence hoping that this move is over and done with sooner vs. later!

On the bright side, Katie has so generously delegated herself to the dungeon today so I have run of her desk. (I love you by the way!) We have a lunch meeting, which is always fun and my shoes are stunning if I do say so myself. Typically toasts are done with something a tad bit stronger than coffee, but for today it's what I've got. So CHEERS to a better day... now imagine me downing my third cup of coffee cuz that's just what I am doing! HAPPY THURSDAY EVERYONE!

Thoughts

Inspiration can blossom at any moment, often from the most seemingly insignificant sources. May I never overlook the ideas that are waiting with baited breath for me to bring to life.

Spontaneity seems to dwindle with age and responsibility. My awesome last minute date last night reminded me why you should never let that side of yourself die.

I love high heels. I love black high heels. So when I get a new pair and am ecstatic about it the answer to your questions are: No - you can never have too many black heels. Yes, I have 7 other pairs in my closet... and No, they are not the same.

A little nail polish and an oversize ring can make a girl feel like a million bucks.

Eggplant parmigiana sounds divine.