Praise the pear my toilet works!!

Yes. This is a big deal. It means I can handle a situation on my own. Even if it means making an embarrassing walk through the hardware store. Somewhere between the girls and myself the toilet got extremely clogged. And even though I promised my brother I wouldn't discuss this on my blog I will . You all know me too well anyway. So well in fact that my friend today told me to go get hummus and tea while he found something, well I had already done that. Anyway. Toilet. I have spent the past 36 hours fretting, grunting, pouring and pleading with the toilet. I even googled how to unclog one. Even got so bad that I was plotting what stores I could go to in case of emergency. To end this story I resolved it all on my own. Yay me. 

OK that's gross and it's out of the way. 

Let's catch up from what I "forgot" to mention in yesterday's tiresome rant. 

I make a lot of runs to the gas station and the nearest one to my house is a good 10 minute drive. Well I figured out how to pay for gas using cash. This seems really dumb but it's always plagued me. I'm still confused. So, you're suppose to pay ahead of time, dur. So, are you suppose to guess how much you'll spend, and then what happens if you've spent too much, do they reimburse you? I have no idea. 

We've been attending a lot of Christmas functions it feels like and I've been told we are only half way there. I haven't been much in the Christmas spirit but I'm trying to keep it up for the girls. Bear's school last week put on a CHRISTMAS concert, no PC holidayness. For being an elementary school function they did a nice job. I, like a goof ball totally spaced that it was D's birthday that day until I overheard a friend of hers wishing her a happy birthday. So, the next day Bean and I picked out a cake and made decorations and Bear and I picked out flowers. You know you've been with out a kitchen when people are thrilled you figured out how to cook pasta and sauce. In a fondue pot no less. Not the most gourmet or how I would normally do it, but it sufficed. D seemed surprised and the girls were so tickled to put something together for their momma. I like trying to instill family love and kindness with them. 

Speaking of food, I got fed up with eating black bean veggie burgers for the past month and decided to go to the store and make some raw salads. Go me. Yes, that's a bowl of washed veggies in the bathroom. Now, granted it's not the best cooking in the world but it'll suffice and I feel good eating it. I've been without my smoothies for the past month or so and I'm dying inside. Dying I tell you. 

Fast forward to today and it was another busy day with my girlies. It's sort of this odd empowering feeling being responsible and such. I've been feeling really blessed lately to be on this journey . It may be tough surviving Alaska winters but I'm here and it's a journey and I'm gonna go for it. 

I can't even tell you what I did in my spare time this morning after dropping the girls off. I'm that brain fried. After I picked up my Bean we headed to the hospital to visit her mom and pick stuff up. Bean gets a kick out of seeing her and pushing all the buttons to open up the door. I had another post card to send and a few items to pick up so we swung by Hell. 

It's awesome when you are four and you totally don't care about changing in the car into your tutu in front of a bunch of other people. (We were at her dance school not hell, by the way). 

Oh to be that age again. Maybe. 

I got to talk to my folks today while waiting to pick up Bear from school. It's great hearing their voices even if I'm interrupting dinner because I can't keep track of the time difference. Apparently the last dog I was so worried about being cute has been replaced due to its wildness with an older dogie who goes at my mothers pace. Good stuff. 

Speaking of pooches, that sad eyed dog up their lost his dingle berries today. Bear and I picked him from the vet and he came bounding over like nothing was wrong. The girls kept asking why Bezor had surgery, I told them to ask their Mom. I wasn't touching that with a ten foot pole. I texted D and told her I had differed them to her and when I saw her at home later that night she just gave me the funniest look and we both started laughing because the girls immediately asked her what had happened to their dog. 

So I'm usually the queen and biatch of healthy meals but tonight I let the girls have a special treat. Their parents were going out for dinner so I told my pumpkins we could have breakfast for dinner and they were thrilled. I tried to make this somewhat healthy by throwing fruit in the mix. I kid you not I made this whole stinking thing in the microwave. I thought it was gross but the girls loved it. 

I scrubbed em up in the bath and then we did art projects till their parents got home at which point my weary self very willingly came into my room and collapsed. A Skype conversation turned into a "mini" lesson with a good friend. I'm starting to see some progress as I can now pretty well sight read some basic pieces. Yay me. 

Well folks it's an hour past my beddy bye time and it's gonna be the third 12hourish day tomorrow. Bonne nuit.  You have stories about my exes, me turning into my parents and odd parenting styles at the library to look forward to tomorrow. Lucky you!