What a month!

Sorry I have been lax in updating here, it has been a bit of a crazy month. June was full of weddings, six of them to be exact, unfortunately they were all scrunched into three days. So I spent June 8 & 9 working 3 of them and then June 23rd doing the other three, yes three in one day. Needless to say it took me about a week after each of those weekends to recover. The pain was ridiculous to be quite honest.

I really thought this year would be a big birthday for me, but it kind of came and went without too much fan fare. I did come home from a very long day at work, to Lydia and her daughter holding a pizza box holding the most amazing canolli filling topped brownies from the amazing Annette at Main Street Pizza. They were delish of course and we had a small family dinner the next day. All in all it was wonderful to have the people I love be with me to celebrate another year.

Since then I have just really been trying to get back to some sense of normal...it is so much more difficult than I expected. It is so frustrating to not be able to do things that I enjoyed doing before.. mowing my lawn (it is about 2 feet high), cooking and being able to clean up afterwards, spending a full day doing a thorough house cleaning. Simple things really that I now have to do in 15-30 minute bursts. And I totally suck at math now.. even with a calculator.. apparently my brain process things differently and makes my fingers transpose things.. I imagine it is what it is like to be dyslexic.

I had started over at Shands Medical Fitness but after the triple header weddings I had to take a break as I could barely stand up straight. I am looking forward to getting back to some type of program to help with my strength, it was helping, but it also took about a 3 hour chunk out of my day do to location from my house.

July is normally a quiet month for my industry, so apart from one event in a couple of weeks and a bust day on August 4 things are pretty quiet.

Biggest news is I was given the gift of a new member for my family. Bella now has a new little brother named Raffaello (means healed by God in Italian) and we call him Ralphie. He is biologically her uncle as his parents are Bella's grandparents. Many thanks to Doreen for this wonderful gift. They get along well and Bella is no longer chewing things to death out of boredom.

I had my God daughter and her twin sister spend a few days with me a couple of weeks ago and they seemed to have fun, we were able to go see the movie Brave, swim in the pool and play a fun new game called Dcecapades. It is such a joy to have these two in my life and watch them and their brother and sister grow into such good young adults.

This week has brought some frustrations... car broke down (to the tune of 530 bucks) TV died the next day and wit will be 4 days before I can get a tech. A friend's husband checked it out last night and shortly after they left it came back on so I am just crossing my fingers, but still having tech come out. I am a little worried about the end of the week since it is Friday 13th with the way the beginning has gone. Can't afford anything else to go wrong at this point. Income tax finally made it to me, but it quickly got the medical stuff paid off and what little was left went to the car.

As always thanks for checking on me, I think I will lay low today and not risk anything else breaking! Happy Summer!