I'm ready for this week to be over. Heather has been working a ton this week and I've hardly seen her at all. I was hoping to go to the movies with her this Friday and see "Couples Getaway" but I've learned that we are both working the Fun Run at Luke's & Syd's school. I know this week has been draining on her, but she'll feel better when she gets the check for this weeks work.

But until then I'll be waiting for her to have a day off so we can sit and drink coffee in the morning, or go to Panera for a cinnamon crunch bagel, or hit up a matinee movie while the kids are in school.

Do you find yourself driving yourself crazy sometimes? I have become such this huge multi-tasker that I drive myself crazy. Everywhere I go I'm thinking while I'm here what should I do so that it will be ready for when I come back or what should I grab that I can drop off while I'm going in that direction. Sometimes I'll stand in the middle of a room spinning around trying to figure out what I should start first so that it will be done when I'm finished with something else.
I do this mostly at work. This morning I found my multi-tasking senses were really tingling. I've been assigned to this new project at work where I have to re-ghost PC to be put out in the field, In lame-mans terms I have to let this program run which guts the PC and put a new profile on it.
So this morning around 6am I: started 6 PC's to be ghosted, sorted the print for the night, started coffee, cycled my Mainframe scheduler, ran 3 Mainframe jobs, shrink-wrapped all the print, broke down and took the PC boxes to the dumpster, printed my labels, poured myself a cup of coffee, sorted my tapes from the night, and wrote this blog all in an hour and a half.
Yes I find myself juggling so much sometimes that I go insane, there are times when I won't let myself go to the bathroom because I'm not ready to go in that direction.

Today is July 16th, and this is really late, but after talking to a friend at church this should make a good blog story. Back on July 4th, our nations Independence Day, I was stuck at work as a matter of fact I had to work the 3rd and then a double on the 4th. So needless to say I saw no fireworks whatsoever. Which really didn't make a difference to me.
Now every year we go over to my parents house, who live on a lake, the surrounding houses on the lake have a huge ta-do about fireworks and the 4th of July. This year was no exception, the people that run the show put together this huge floating barge, and shoot the fireworks from the middle of the lake. Now if you've never seen fireworks over a lake then you're missing 50% of the actual show. The water amplifies the sound and then reflects the fireworks. So it's really something to see, but as I said before I was at work, so there was no amplification or reflection.

I think if I remember right the 4th was on a Saturday, by Monday I was back to normal as far as lack of sleep, for those of you that know me I pretty much am always suffering from lack of sleep, but for the stories sake I was doing ok. So I wake up Monday evening come out of the bedroom to see everybody relaxing ion the living room. Sydney my baby girls jumps up and runs to hug me, then tells me that she saved some of the fireworks that Mom had bought so that I could see them. Now granted these weren't the $100 fireworks that shoot 100's of feet in the air then make huge shapes in the sky, nor were they thunderous sound spliting fireworks, they were the $15 dollar pack of firewoks that you buy at Walmart. But here's the good part of the story, yeah I know you had to sit through that long led up. Watching Sydney watch me as the boys set off those $15 dollar fireworks, then watching the amazement in their eyes, well I think this may have been one of my favorite 4th of July's so far.