The Stress

I have been highly irresponsible in not updating you all on little BB. I blame it on The Stress. But to cut to the quick, BB is doing fine. The specialist called him normal and sent us on our way with two months of medication that should make things even more normal. Boy thingies are very confusing. I'll just put that out there.

But The Stress. It causes funny things, The Stress does. Causes me to break out like a teenager, become so fatigued that I put myself to bed at 8 p.m. right after my son is tucked away most nights and still wake up tired, causes my pipes to back up (was that TMI?), causes me to involuntarily make faces that reflect my inner turmoil while I am on the bus which then makes people look at me funny. Yes, The Stress.

It has been caused by this recent medical drama with BB, the fact that we had (just three days before) signed him up for pricey private school, and that my boss is so stressed with work that he keeps shoveling it onto me. I have no one to shovel my work to, so that leaves me with a lot to do. And the fact that during the summer the Washington State Department of Transportation causes tons of traffic grief by starting all these road construction projects that tack on an extra hour to my daily commute to and from work. Pack onto that the laundry list of tasks that has to be done every summer around the house: painting the front deck, staining the back deck, pressure washing the roof, weed/feed the lawn, etc., etc.

And here is the kicker...it's all normal stuff I am grousing on and on about. I know this. I know that most every family with children and two parents that work have to deal with these same things. And I guess that I am complaining here because I am also too busy to have many girlfriends to sit and chat with about these things. None of us have any time for each other. That and most of my friends live in Seattle proper and I live in the burbs. Therefore, after work I have to head straight for the buses and go home instead of meeting up with them for Happy Hour. Straight sucks!

My hubby and I are trying to plan something for our 10-year wedding anniversary in September. Problem is, we have to do this on Labor Day weekend because we can't take BB out of school right after he has started it and there is no one to take him to school but us. That and we actually can't afford to go anywhere and do anything on Labor Day weekend because everything costs twice as much. That and we HATE HATE HATE Labor Day weekend crowds and traffic and blech! But its our ten year wedding anniversary and we want to do something special.

Ugh. Sorry. Maybe now that I have purged that from my system we can go onto better things tomorrow. We are going to Remlinger Farms tomorrow for my husband's company picnic. That should be fun. Woolly sheep, gobbly turkeys and a beer garden.

I'll report back.