Well it feels like summer just started, but my kids are back to school on Monday. We had a wonderful laid back summer with a perfect, once in a lifetime trip! I have to say, I really do have a blessed life and have no right to complain... however...
The planets must be aligned poorly, or the moon must be in a disturbing phase, because I swear that everything that can go wrong lately has! Okay, that is totally not true and I take that back. Several more things could possibly go wrong and I don't want to tempt the fates.
I get to beta test lots of products for the Hubby's employer, which is usually fun. But last week they recalled the ChromeBook I've been using for months and then my old laptop decided it was mad at being ignored and died. I had given my old desktop to my son, since I was swimming in laptops, and he is loath to give it back to me. Plus HOW is he supposed to play Minecraft if he gives me back the computer? I don't know.

In the meantime the accelerometer on my smartphone broke, and it doesn't know up from down or North from South. And it thinks the screen is being touched all the time. Which means basically, nothing works except the phone part of the smartphone. It lost its smarts. It's possible I dropped it. Again.
Somehow I ate something with peanuts snuck into it and my face is broken out with two dozen painful pimples. That is why I'm covering my face in the photo - you don't want to see it.
The woman who rents our home half way across the country has lost her mind and gone completely crazy. She thinks of new ways to threaten us and ideas to sue us for every few days. Some days it is actually funny, but most days it is not.
Our plan to finally sell that house, once crazy has moved out, was foiled by the house across the street selling in pre-foreclosure for 100k less than we paid for ours 12 years ago. When my real estate agent told me nearly four years ago when we moved, that it would take longer than this for the housing market to improve, I'm pretty sure I laughed and I certainly did not believe her.
We are growing a weird yellow "mustard" algae in our pool. It grows on the surface and stinks. An algae treatment and three straight days of shock *might* have killed it. Fingers crossed.
I haven't really recovered from the minor surgery I had in June. Some days are fine, some days I take the max ibuprofen allowed.
A friend talked me into being on the PTA board. Basically she sweet talked and flattered me (ps. that is how to get me to do almost anything). Don't ever let someone talk you into being on a PTA board, is my advice now. School starts next week and, well, let's just say it hasn't been fun. (If you are reading this and are a Mom from my kid's school, I'm totally lying, and it's been a lovely experience ...those were tears of joy)
My son's birthday is just over a week away and I haven't planned his party or sent invites.
My best friend moved to Hong Kong. Last summer my best friend moved to England. I sense a pattern.
The weird thing is, I really don't like how I react to some of these issues and I'm questioning myself a lot. At 43 I can see how annoying my behavior is and how much I really want to change it. I am very passionate about things I truly care about. But I see how it can come off as irritating to others. And WHY do I get so stressed, when others can just let things roll off their back? If you read this blog, you know I am not a complainer and I'm revealing tons of stuff that should not be discussed on the intranets. Think positive Amber, think positive! I'm going to pull out
Eckhart Tolle's New Earth ASAP and read it from cover to cover. I need some enlightenment.
On a positive note, when I logged on to write this post blogger said I've had over one million pageviews! The Hubby quickly popped my bubble when I told him and said "You got that many today?" No not today stupid, do I look like Perez Hilton? That is total, lifetime pageviews. Argh.