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Fall is here, though you wouldn’t know it by the temperatures, I believe it got up to 89 today.

Soon it will be freezing cold and I will be stuck inside my small little house.

Then it will be like Toys R Us barfed in all of the rooms of our small little house because the kids will be stuck inside too!

Every once in awhile I get a bug up my butt and it tells me I need to get rid of stuff, lots of stuff.

About a month ago we did that to the garage, threw a bunch of junk away, and took even more stuff to a drop-off donation place. Our goal was accomplished, Brian is now able to park his car in the garage too! Nice since there have been some car break-ins in the neighborhood. It will also be nice for him not to have to clean frost, snow or ice off his car every morning before work.

My Mom let me know that her church was having a huge garage sale to raise money and asked  if I had anything to give away.

Did I ever!

I went straight to Alex’s room and took all the Little People toys, sorted by set, bagged them and took them to the van. He barely ever played with them. He has a baseball obsession remember and if it’s not baseball it’s watching Caillou, playing with cars or building with Legos. No interest in the 4 huge Little People sets that were collecting dust on his shelves or hiding in his closet.

I went through clothes, baby toys, and got rid of the girls My Little Ponies.

And you know what, it feels good! Especially when I open up Alex’s closet and *gasp* see the floor!

I have more to do, especially Brian and I’s room. It’s become the junk dumping ground and I’m sick and tired of it.

Let’s hope that little bug, you know the one that sometimes crawls up my butt, stays awhile and keeps me motivated!

Our heat went out this past weekend. We woke up to the house being 59 degrees. Brian and our friend Peter looked at the furnace and tried to figure out what was wrong, they came up with nothing. So we called several heating and cooling companies. All of which told us it would be $140 just to come out. I then had the thought to call our contractor friend Eric. He contacted a friend of a friend and a few hours later Jim came out to the house and fixed the problem for $80. Not only did he fix it, he told Brian what to do if it happened again and said that if it didn’t work to call him and he would come out for free, all we would have to do is pay for parts! Now that is service.

During all that I left to go to Kelly and Peter’s house. For some much needed heat and we were going to eat dinner over there as well. Great friends are a wonderful blessing! We got half way there when Brianna asked where her coat was, she had forgotten it. The realization ended with me being aggravated and her in tears. We turned around and went back home. I opened the garage door and it stopped a quarter of the way up. I closed it and tried again. Now there was a small crack in of of the panels that has been there for months. Well when the garage started up again, the panels above the crack started buckling inward. I stopped it, shut it and went in through the front door. Grumbling about the events of the day. We have been parking in the driveway ever since.

Brian looked up garage door replacements and said there was no way we were doing it because it was over $800. My opinion was that I learned my lessen with going with a company and I told him to contact Eric. He did and sure enough, Eric said we could just replace the panels. He called up the company who installed it and they are coming out Wednesday morning to give him an estimate so he can fix it.

Now I’m worried about the next thing to break.

Praying it won’t be the van!

We are blessed to have such a talented and connected friend!

Went to the cardiologist today for the heart palpitations I’ve been having.

I was really nervous.

My BP was good 118/80.

They did an EKG.

The first doctor who came in scared the crap out of me by looking all concerned, but then the main doctor came in and said the first stuff wasn’t what you looked at and that everything had looked okay. I suppose it was a teaching moment for the new doctor, but I had about 5 minutes of unnecessary freaking out.

I was told that what I have been experiencing over the past month+ are PVC’s, basically a premature heartbeat that throws my rhythm out of whack for a beat.

I was told that since it happens most during rest that it wasn’t much to worry about.

But if it became bothersome and started happening during physical activity to come back in for an echo cardiogram and a stress test.

That he didn’t want to do medication because I was still so young.

But he was an odd guy. He laughed and joked around a lot. Then he pretty much made me tell him what I was most fearful of, which was my lack of family history (with being adopted) and the fear of having young kids and dropping dead. Then he tried to reassure me, but I left feeling anything but reassured.

So, for now I’m supposed to not worry about it.

I’ll try.

A is for Alex barfing multiple times last week. Blueberries are not pretty regurgitated! He is thankfully feeling much better this week, though his appetite is not fully back yet. He’s also been racking up the vocabulary lately. His newest words or bubble and touch.

B is for Brianna making student of the month for December. Though it is a secret, so shhhh! Brian and I get to present her an award at chapel in January. She had no clue, so make sure you don’t say anything to her. I am beyond proud of her!

C is for Christmas, which is right around the corner. The house is decorated, most of the gifts are purchased and already wrapped. Yet, I’m not completely in the mood this year. Hopefully I will be feeling more festive next week.

D is for doctors. I went to my regular doc because I was having heart palpitations. They took lots of blood and I ended up getting a thyroid ultrasound. Everything came back normal. Wed. I have an appt. with a cardiologist.

E is for Emma. The cat who is driving Brian nuts by messing with the tree, as well as stalking the hamster cage and attacking my legs. The only time she is awesome is when she warms the spot at the end of my bed, so my feet are nice and toasty, as well as night time cuddle time.

F is for football! The Eagles are in first in the NFC East! They need to win it all to make up for the Phillies blowing the World Series.

G is for good nights rest. I’ve been staying up entirely too late these last couple of weeks.

H is for hair being straightened. I finally used the flat iron on the girls and it has made doing their hair so much easier!

I is for ice cream. I’ve been craving it like crazy lately. Especially blizzards from DQ.

J is for Jesus. Who’s birth we celebrate on Christmas!

K is for Katie. Who barfed at Kamryn’s birthday party at world of bounce on Saturday. It was a mix of feeling sorry for her and feeling highly embarrassed! She has also been saying some highly funny things lately, which of course I can’t recall right now.

L is for lights. I love looking at them when driving around in the evenings. They really beautiful, when they are tastefully done!

M is for money tree, I wish I had a few of them growing in my backyard.

N is for New Moon which lived up to my expectations and more. I’ve seen it twice and can’t wait to see it again.

O is for I don’t know. I’m too tired to think of something clever too.

P is for pick ‘em. I’ve been doing the whole football pick ‘em thing this year. Brian reads off the teams and I pick who I think is going to win. I’m in first place, despite not knowing anything about anything when it comes to football and the standings. He rolls his eyes at me on a weekly basis, yet I continue to be winning!

Q is for the start of my last name.

R is for reader. I’m so behind on reading blogs.

S is for snow. We got a tiny bit last Monday. It was nice, though I almost slid during 2 turns.

T is for Tori, who missed me while I was away. Much longer than I wanted to be. Wiseman’s kicked my booty, I was MIA all week and then last week was recovery. I didn’t have it in me to blog. Though I did tap away at the laptop on the story I’m writing.

U is for umbrella, though I haven’t actually been using one. It has been needed a few times this past week. Cold and rainy. Yuck.

V is for me. I’m good. I think. Just have a lot on my plate, it makes me quiet and introspective. I’ve been using avoidance techniques, such as watching TV, crocheting, reading and writing.

W is for Wiseman’s Warehouse. I don’t have the numbers back from the treasurer but I think it was a success. The kids had a blast Christmas shopping. We had more than enough volunteers. I only had to go out shopping three times during the actual week. There were some hiccups but for the most part it went smoothly. Brian was right, I couldn’t help myself, I said I would do it again.

X is for Xylo Xylophoning.. Sandra Boynton is funny.

Y is for yarn. I’ve been a crocheting fool, trying to get my Mom’s sock monkey’s completely. My hands don’t handle repetitive motion very well.

Z is for zoo lights. Something I keep forgetting about, but really should take the kids too.