A Week in Bullets

Howdy, y'all! (Can you guess I'm from the South?) I've been MIA for the most part the past week. No particular reason aside from a little writer's block and a general lack of anything substantial to write about. I'm sitting here in my kitchen feeling particularly productive. I washed the dishes that **surprisingly** didn't get done by J after I left for the movies last night and finally got around to folding the clothes and towels I washed LAST weekend. I might even knock out some of the other things from last weekend's to-do list. We'll see :)

Since it's not been a particularly busy week and I don't feel like devoting a lot of time to any particular thing, I'm going to do a run down of the past week in bullet form. (I am a HUGE list maker, so this is right up my alley.)

• I have, what I think, is poison ivy. On my face. It's not all that bad, but there's nothing like a red rash put right out there for the world to see to make you feel just peachy. And uber-ugly. I blame the dogs, because I'm an indoor girl who hasn't been near the stuff (since I'm highly allergic). I probably touched them or cuddled with them and got it off of their fur. That's what I get for being lovey.
• I had the world's worst pulled neck for half of the week. Probably from the ridiculous amounts of sneezing I did during an allergy attack last week. All better now.
  
• I nearly had to pay 220 freaking dollars for allergy medicine! The allergist changed my subscriptions, and the insurance company wasn't wanting to pay up. Apparently they didn't think it was necessary. The doctor took care of that one for me, because I think I'd die without them.
  
• Livy said her first 3-syllable word: telephone. She'd been saying phone for quite awhile but Thursday I said telephone when it rang and she picked up on it and started saying it, too. Awesome. :)
• I must be careful to watch what I say in front of said Livers, because she is particularly good at repeating words clearly and that could bode badly for me in the future.
• I watched Weezer's new video for their new song Pork and Beans approximately 2000 times. #1, it is awesome. It contains a lot of YouTube stars in it. You MUST go check it out. (I will try to embed it below.) And #2, Livers LOVES the song. She asks me to play it over and over again. That and the Charlie Bit My Finger video from YouTube.
• Livers learned to say "thank you" well (as in, you finally can tell what she's saying) AND in a socially appropriate way.
  
• Livers played in the sprinkler for the first time ever. She loved it.
• I watched the season finale of LOST. It has only been two days and I am absolutely JONESING for January to roll around and Season 5 to start. I think I'll do a Thursday 13 about it this week.
• I saw Sex and the City. I really liked it, even though the critics railed it. I went with a neighbor of mine who has a kid Livers age. Like me, she doesn't get out much (and her husband hates going to movies) so it was a really nice break.
• We switched BACK to cable because the trees decided that we weren't allowed to have satellite. We have a hard full of huge oaks, and we didn't want to cut them down for the sake of a clearer view. With the LOST finale on this week I wanted to make for darn sure we had reliable TV.
  

I'm sure other things happened this week, but I can't remember them. Hopefully next week is a fun, productive one. Here are a few things that will happen and a few that might.

• Livers has a doctor's appointment for her UTI. We have to see if the antibiotics worked. They seemed to, smelling as her diapers don't stink.
• I will actually make one scrapbook page. I will, I will, I will.
• I will participate in my first Tackle It Tuesday. While putting away towels I realized just how messy my bathroom's linen closet was. Not the towels, those are neatly folded and stacked by color, but all of the other bathroom things. It's OUT OF CONTROL.
• We will make beach plans.
• A movie with my baby brother.
• Livers and I will go to the park. And maybe buy a baby pool and sprinkler so we can start playing outside in the driveway on the hot days that are going to be coming really soon.
• I will take my new sewing machine out of the box and learn to use it. This is a big question mark.
• The electrician will come install our porch fan so J and I can start hanging out on the porch at night after Livers goes to bed.
• I will be less selfish.

I hope that everyone had a good week, has a good weekend, and has a great week to come!

I will leave you with some Weezer. :)