{"id":312,"date":"2010-11-19T07:22:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T14:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/?p=312"},"modified":"2010-11-19T07:22:19","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T14:22:19","slug":"so-depressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"So depressing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m depressed or sleep deprived.  The most depressing thing is my body.  It will not function the way I want it to function.  I think I have a pinched nerve in my back, which is making life all kinds of fun.  If I stand or sit on anything hard, my back starts burning like no tomorrow.  It&#8217;s not a muscle ache.  Of course, this is complicated by the 23 pound lump of pure fighting muscle I have to carry around everywhere.  The worst chair in the house by far?  The computer chair?  So I can&#8217;t even enjoy catching up on blogs or writing or doing anything enjoyable without incredible pain.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, I am depressed.<\/p>\n<p>Why did my children have to destroy my laptop?<\/p>\n<p>I am just about ready to go buy an iPhone blackberry droid doohickey.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, I am feeling a bit organized this holiday season.  I&#8217;ve already started planning out my advent calendar.  As you know, I am not the most crafty person so when I saw directions to make a big, fancy advent calendar last year I said &#8220;that is SO COOL&#8221; and then promptly decided I couldn&#8217;t do it.  Luckily it was easily modified into a form that a non-creative person can quickly create.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ramblequeen\/4151754410\/\" title=\"Activity Advent Calendar by Ramble Queen, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2662\/4151754410_a87f9d660c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Activity Advent Calendar\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So easy!  I just hung up squares with garland and little tiny binder clips.  I made a whole PDF hand out about how to do this (with ideas for projects and other tips) for my MOMS Club newsletter and was planning on sharing it with you, but I can&#8217;t seem to access my FTP, which means I have no idea how to upload it.  I would be worried about that, but my back hurts too much so I can&#8217;t obsess.<\/p>\n<p>What else?<\/p>\n<p>Erik is way too smart for his own good and I&#8217;m likely to die of embarrassment.  They are working on an economics unit in preschool and are supposed to come up with a product they can sell.  They have to have something from nature and turn it into a product with some tools.  Erik&#8217;s product is a direct result of his country music indoctrination.  <\/p>\n<p>Item from nature:  corn.<br \/>\nProduct:  whiskey.<br \/>\nTool:  Mommy&#8217;s computer to find the recipe and Daddy&#8217;s wine bottles to put the whiskey in.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how much of this he shared with the teacher and how much he just shared with me.  I fear we need to go back to listening to the Wiggles 24\/7.  A nice fruit salad would make a good product, wouldn&#8217;t it?  Yummy, yummy.<\/p>\n<p>Elsa is starting to thin out from all her crawling, thank goodness!  Heather, I kept meaning to send you those clothes, but now they fit.  I&#8217;m sorry!  I feel bad, but I have to admit I&#8217;m glad she can wear them longer than a week.<\/p>\n<p>She has gone from being a happy all the time baby, to being very, very frustrated in short bursts.  Oh woe is me (not).  She&#8217;s been happily commando crawling for a few weeks, but now she&#8217;s figured out she can get up on her knees.  She just can&#8217;t figure out how to go, so she sits there and wails and cries until I save her.  Poor little thing.  Erik&#8217;s been trying very hard to teach her how to crawl, but she just won&#8217;t listen (much to his annoyance).  <\/p>\n<p>We all seem to have yet another cold.  Will we ever be healthy again?  I think that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m most depressed about.  I don&#8217;t remember feeling good and healthy since my 35th birthday almost 2 years ago.  I can&#8217;t imagine how depressed actual chronically ill people must be.<\/p>\n<p>And now I have a crying baby, a burning back and an impatient boy.  Guess that does it for this installment of All Whining, All the Time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m depressed or sleep deprived. The most depressing thing is my body. It will not function the way I want it to function. I think I have a pinched nerve in my back, which is making life all kinds of fun. 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