Holy Cold Batman!

Today felt like one of those days that your brain is constantly zooming around trying to remember everything. I mean my phone today informed me that "I" missed my alarm. Excuse me. I was awake and it never went off. That's how my day started. Not to mention that every breathing orifice in my body was currently serving as a lodging place for mucus. I think I woke up at least 5 times last night fighting to breathe. Stupid, stupid stupid cold. 


Oh cold you ask? Well my friends I know I keep saying I'm an Alaskan...but man was I ferociously shown otherwise. In the short span of the walk from my front door to my car...maybe 15 paces...my fingers went ice cold numb. I was wearing gloves. When I checked the weather later that day....-21. NEGATIVE TWENTY ONE PEOPLE. Holy Toledo is that cold. Your lungs burn, your fingers form into claws and the hair you haven't shaved on your legs stand to attention military style. I was wearing long undies. BRRRR.


I was trying to get pictures uploaded, pack bags, drag slugs out of bed, answer e-mails, edit photos, make breakfast, calm the dog down, sort my laundry and drag a car seat back out into the car. It was a rough morning. It took my four year old 45 minutes to eat a piece of toast and drink some juice. Needless to say her hair went up in a bun and I barely brushed it. We were behind by ten minutes. I don't like being behind...at all. 


I couldn't get my fingers to warm up until I finally dropped Bean off at school 30 minutes later. They hurt they were so cold. 


Well we still don't have a laundry machine so it's to the laundromat I went this morning. I despise and loathe the laundromat. A LOT. It always feels so germy to me and I want nothing more than to just run away.


 I had to call the pool the verify swim lessons, forgot my own phone number, had to call back and talk to the same ditsy person again. 


Of a side note...all the times I've been tot he laundromat the majority of the people there are men in their sixties reading newspapers. It's odd. 


I actually managed to not wander aimlessly at the grocery store today. Yay me. I got what I needed and headed out. Well now I had not enough time to go home and too much time to kill in town. This is always quite the conundrum for me. 


All the quaint little stores I wanted to check out were closed so I headed back to my usual spot for my cup of tea. I switched things up and treated my self to a chocolate coconut bar. It's a good place to eavesdrop on conversation and burn your tongue on delicious tea. 


The baristas were all in a fuss about the latest gossip of stolen oats at the horse keeping place (?). Who stole the oats? Like seriously, I pay for those oats and like if they're going to eat them then like I'm going to start using theirs. Like if it gets to minus 20 five then Starbright is fine but if like it gets to minus 23 then she's not. You need to like you know like check if like shes shivering like or something, like OK?


Rolls eyes.

Picked up my Bean...moved like a distracted slug..again. Met D at work. We had to install a new car seat for Bean...in minus twenty degree weather. Now I've never installed a car seat before let alone in freezing Alaska cold. D had a lot of work to catch up on..so the other nurse (in charge of safety) and I did it. I wanted to spew off about a hundred curse words. Those darn things are a frkn nightmare to a.) take out and b.) put in. Geeze freaking louise.


Picked up art supplies.


Bean falls asleep in the car.


Jill lets her sleep...


"Made"....dinner. 


We also made homemade play dough that came from school. We did some painting. We learned some sight words. We played memory. The dog swallowed and regurgitated a piece of string. Jill washed said string because said four year old wanted said string. (Gross)


Parents were finally home. I crawled to my room at about 8:50 pm. It's been an extremely long day. I'm extrememly tired. I have a massively gross cold. I also ate about 3 times the serving size for cookies. I justified it by a.) knowing that they are vegan/eco conscious and b.) I'm sick. 


OK super long day and another one tomorrow. JOY!