It’s been a very fast work and home week. From the perspective of a stay-at-home turned work-from-home single mom mentality, this is good news. The past weeks have been good to me money-wise but I feel that stress is finally catching up again. I find myself waking up in the middle of the night because of throbbing headaches. I get up and go downstairs to swallow one of those pain relievers that has been a staple in my diet for how many years now. It’s bad.

But there is enough to pay the bills and buy me coffee. And I know there will be more work coming. Some days it feels like it’s not enough but this week it felt like plenty.

Seriously, I think Gwyneth Paltrow did the right thing by marrying Chris Martin of Coldplay. I have been madly in love with their tunes ever since hearing yellow on the radio. And do you know that the band is offering a free download of their new album. It’s their way of saying thank you to all their fans. You can download it right here.

happy coldplaying, everyone!

My weekdays are long and tiring right now. I get up around 7am which is quite late for some but it’s a bit early for me. I sleep late. I like to watch TV when everyone is already asleep. I have a thing for reality shows and TMZ and they show past my children’s bedtime. That’s why I get to watch those shows alone. Anyway, back to my weekdays. Tiring because as soon as I get up, I have to fix breakfast for my children. It’s not even much. Just some toasts and any beverage mainly. After which I check for some opps and I surf a bit before I give MG a bath. Then it’s time for lunch. If I have the time which is very rare, I cook. But most of the time, we just eat out. Then off we go to MG’s summer art class. You can pretty much have an idea how my days are spent daily. And for the first time after a long long time, I fell asleep awhile ago. Uninterrupted. I was tired and that short nap really did me good. I felt energized. I guess no matter how old we are, we still need that afternoon nap. I’m so going to nap whenever I can.

I thought I’d just share this with you on this special day. Thanks Nancy for posting this on Facebook. Happy Mother’s Day!

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So I was ranting about our cable company the other day and I thought it would stop there. Well, cable’s out since last night. And I don’t know why. I can’t call them because we don’t have a phone line yet. I don’t want to use my celphone to check because you know how much it costs to call from a celphone. So I have to wait and check every now and then to see if it’s working. By the way, I just realized that I shouldn’t be complaining. There’s no good channel to watch, anyway. Still, I’m paying for the service. Ewan…

I hate our cable company. There aren’t too many choices. And I couldn’t even switch because the admin has an exclusive contract with our existing cable company. Which sucks because I’ve been watching reruns of Travel & Living shows the whole day and I’m getting tired of it. Thank God for books. I’ve decided just now to read Angels and Demons by Dan Brown again. The movie will be shown this month and I wouldn’t miss it for sure. The last movie I watched was Twilight and the sequel to it is taking much too long to make. Anyway, I think I’ll have tea to go with my reading. Talk to you soon.