I Haven't Gone Anywhere (Except a Little Insane)

I've been "spoken to" twice today about why I haven't been blogging much lately, so I'm here to explain. Having an unknown person email... well that sort of pushes me into a response.

I was off. I took some time off, and it's been okay. I had a very good month in July, and as the deals started closing, I realized that I was in a good position to take a couple weeks off. It's not that I didn't want to work. I wanted to spend some time with my kids before they went back to school, and then I wanted to clean my house while they were in school and couldn't mess it all up behind me.

That's what I wanted. It's not what I got. I did get to spend several stressed out days with the kids before school started. Mostly we were fighting our way through jam packed stores, avoiding potential fist fights over the last green two pocket folder available for sale in the county. Dodging pushy cell phone sales reps and twinkies who swear they can make my nails look better than ever ((not possible - I have awesome fingernails, all on my own, thank you)). Personally, one of my least favorite back to school experiences, trying not to slug the idiot blonde. In an attempt to get me to try and buy her products, she proceeded to spray my eight year old son in the face. I just have to wonder - is the Carousel Mall to Destiny project so short on funds that they have to rent center aisle space to just about every ridiculous vendor known to infest Syracuse? Destiny may end up the second biggest mall in America, but in my mind it's going to take some time and overhauling before I think of it as anything more than a "destiny-tion" to avoid.

My apologies, I've digressed. School started with few problems, and my sister and I celebrated by spending the day in Skaneateles. We had a great lunch at the bakery (their bread is incredible!), and did a little early Christmas shopping. On the second day of school, everything was going along fine until 9:30 in the morning, when I got a phone call from the middle school. I had to go pick up my 8th grader, who had a migraine. Who also ended up home again on Friday. Which led into the weekend, and my oldest came down with a nasty cold. That he shared with everyone else in the house, including me, and the dogs.

Speaking of the dogs, should you ever have need of an all night animal hospital in central New York, I highly recommend the one in Baldwinsville. One of the pups and I were there last week after she ate Asiatic lily and tulip bulbs. It was a lot of fun, leaving the house at midnight with a sick puppy (ooo! Sick Puppies, Welcome to My World!), particularly the next day when I got to clean up my car. My wonderful car has now been christened "the pukey car."

So now a month has gone by and it feels like I only had one day off, that one day in Skaneateles. I returned to the working world today by going out on tour, even though my 8th grader was home from school again. I don't feel rested or relaxed, haven't spent very much quality time with the kids, and my house is not clean. I did manage to tackle some landscaping with my sister's help. It is an accomplishment.

I think I may actually get more done now that I'm back to work. I will work hard now, get caught up on some blogging and market reports, and maybe I'll even pick up a few listings along the way.