So Tired I Might Throw Up

How's that for a straight-to-the-point title?  Dr. Fallon would be so proud.  ("Hit it; don't play with it.")  Candace, are you out there?  Anyway...

The past few days have been completely out of control.  I've had multiple consultations and booked multiple new clients.  That, of course, is awesome, but my back HURTS and I'm TIRED now.  Two days ago I cleaned an elderly lady's home and she had the heat UPPPPP.  By the time I finished mopping her kitchen floor, I was feeling ill.  After I was done with the hardwood floors, she wanted to talk for another 30 minutes.  Normally, I'm OK with that because she's old and doesn't have many people to talk to.  (My dad's one and only weak spot - old people.  He worked in home health care for years and after tending to them, he would visit with them.  The old people loved him, and they knitted him gifts, gave him puppies, etc.)  Anyway, I almost fainted in her freakin floor before I could get in my car and crank up the AC.

Yesterday I worked almost 8 hours (at a desk, not so bad; cleaning non-stop, murderous) and by the end of the day, I honestly thought I would throw up from fatigue.  Is that even possible?

Today I cleaned for 6.5 hours and booked another consultation.  Since I've been on the brink of needing to hire help, that last consultation pushed me over the edge.  Although it will mean a pay cut for a month or so, it will free up some time for more marketing, more clients, more employees, etc., until I'm not cleaning anymore!  Hooray!

So, I'm hiring.  Pass the word.

In other news (oh yeah, I have a work blog for that crap...) my husband is going as crazy as I am.  His office is being turned upside down by a big mistake someone made in a case.  And he's having to fix the problem.  The big, publicized, millions-of-dollars-on-the-line problem.  He's stressing because he travels so much that he's never in the office to deal with it.  And now they're considering cut backs, and he's the newest "member of the team."  Yeah, I've heard that one...

Somebody keeps killing my daffodils!  I think it's that damn blue jay!

Last night I made some delicious chicken and brown rice soup.  It was 8:00 before we ate it because, hey, I'm a working girl (as my husband so lovingly describes it), and I didn't even start the chicken until around 6... anyway, it was good.  If I didn't have Bunko tonight I'd eat some right now.  I don't even have time to wash my hair before Bunko, which pisses me off.  I hate going anywhere after I've worked all day.  Yesterday I've been at one woman's house for about 4 hours and had just washed the steaming hot shower when her husband came home and she just had to bring him into the bathroom to introduce us.  Yes, I love meeting people when I look like a hot mess.  I wish they served alcohol at Bunko... (Baptist church group - never going to happen.)

This morning I popped 3 Aleve - I didn't feel any relief.  I ate a pb&j sandwich between houses today and realized I'd accidentally bought the wrong kind of bread last time.  Damn.  Why didn't I notice that when I made toast for breakfast?  Maybe because I wasn't truly awake when I ate breakfast.

This weekend I'm going home to my mom's house.  A childhood friend is having her bridal tea Sunday, so I'm using that as an excuse to go home for the weekend.  While traveling last week my husband spent the night there without me, and it made me jealous.  That's my room!  I don't even think I've spent the night there since the night before my wedding.  Weird.

I'm hungry.  I hope we're having something delicious at Bunko.

What is WRONG With Me?

I am on this blog at least 4 times a week to read other people's blogs, but do I take the time to update my own?  Nooo.  Right now I'm listening to Martha Wainwright's "B.M.F.A."  She is so bad ass.  I wish I could be more bad ass.

You know what's really bad ass?  My business has literally quadrupled in the last month.  That's the real reason I haven't been updating my blog.  I haven't even updated my business blog.  I've lost 30 pounds by cleaning houses too - bonus!

I've got baby fever more than ever, and that fever, that mania is pushing me forward in my business.  Ulitmately, I want to have crews cleaning for me.  I'll have to hire one at a time, and eventually my most senior employees will become the managers of the new ones.  Then I can concentrate fully on marketing, HR, and meeting new clients.  Oh yeah, and having babies.  I honestly think I'll have to hire my first person by mid-summer.

Sam is just 2 weeks shy of being one year old!  That's hard to believe.  Today he woke us up around 3:30 a.m. because he'd chased a nasty possum up our privacy fence.  The possum wouldn't hop off into the neighbor's yard, so Sam wouldn't stop his manic barking.  Z eventually had to go outside and throw rocks at the possum hoping it would jump.  He also threw a rotten potato.  But that's another story.  One does crazy things at 4 a.m.

This has been the coldest, wettest, nastiest winter ever, but spring is finally getting bolder it seems.  Our daffodils and crocuses (croci?) are beginning to bloom, but the unlucky ones are getting decapitated by a particularly ballsy blue jay.  He might meet a rotten potato later.  We don't have any azaleas or camellias, but it seems like all the neighbors do, and they do really well down here.  Those are just beginning to bloom too.  I wish we had a dogwood tree.  My mind is just going a million miles an hour thanks to work, so I've resigned myself to stream of conciousness blogging.  You'll get used to it.

You know what I miss?  The O.C.  Don't hate - it was a good show for about one and a half seasons.

My favorite part of the winter olympics?  The opening ceremony when k.d. lang sang "Hallelujah" which I'm listening to now.  She brought it.  OK, now "Tik Tok" is on.  It's a terrible song, in that I'm terribly ashamed to admit I freakin love it.

Tonight I'm having dinner with my old work friends because one of them is moving away for a new job.  That bank failure seemed like the end of the world, but it's been beyond a blessing for me.

I am thinking of opening a bookstore as my next business venture.  If you live in my town, don't steal my idea.  It'll take me a few years to raise that kind of money.  If you are from Montevallo, it might be similar to Eclipse.  It depends on how bad ass I'm feeling at the time...

Seriously, yesterday I took a shower after working all morning, during which I missed four phone calls on my business cell.  I called them all back and booked FOUR consultations in ONE hour.  No, really.  But that's a post for my business blog, which you'd better be reading.  Maybe I'll update it tomorrow.  (Probably not - I've got a consultation tomorrow!)

I got to fire my first client a couple of weeks ago.  What a rush.  It was liberating, awesome, intoxicating even.  OK, that's a bit of a stretch.  But it was a power trip.

I miss blogging.  This has been fun.  Let's do it more often.