Yet Another Bridget-ism, and Why I’m Old

I really need to write these all down throughout the day. I always seem to forget them when I sit down at the computer.

Bridget likes to say Bye Bye to anyone and anything. Even cars on the street. When we turn off the busy street near our house, into our neighborhood, she always says “Bye Bye cars!” And now? It’s “Bye Bye cars! I love you!” Both her car freak grandfathers will be so proud when they hear that.

Lately when we put her to bed for the night or a nap, she loses her shit and cries like the world is ending, but almost every time as Jake or I walk out of the room, she pauses the screaming to say “bye bye Mommy (or Daddy)”  Then she resumes shit-losing. It’s pretty funny.

Anyway, so here’s why I’m old. A few weeks ago, Jake won a contest from Moutain Dew. It was one of those games where you collect the codes from bottle caps and plug them into the contest website and then never win anything. Except he did! He won a stand up video game machine, like from an arcade. I know! It’s very cool. Well, it got delivered today, after minor annoyance with legal documents and tax details. Except they would not carry it up the stairs to our game room, which is where it had to go. Jake leaves for a business trip and I was not about to have this bohemoth hanging out in the family room so we stupidly decided that we could get it up the stairs by ourselves. Except not so much. Well, I take that back. It’s up there. We took a gouge out of the wall, did some damage to the bannister and almost ended up divorced but it’s up there. I came *this* close to throwing my back out. I never knew what that meant before. Really, I just think I severely strained the muscles in my lower back but it hurts so bad that I unconsciously stop myself from moving. It’s not that I can’t bend over any farther, I think my brain just stops my body before it hurts too badly. I can force myself to bend as I need to but ouch! Thankfully this happened at the beginning of Bridget’s nap, and I was able to rest it for the afternoon. It feels somewhat better, and I took a hot bath which is a rare treat, and am now sitting with the heating pad on it. Before bed tonight I’ll take some valium and actually be using it as a muscle relaxer, which is why I have the prescription in the first place. Horrible timing too, because Jake leaves for out of town tomorrow through the end of the week.

Oh, and completely off topic, it rained today for the first time in about two months. The day we were supposed to get a new roof put on. So no new roof today. Maybe tomorrow. But of course Jake will be out of town so you know there will be some foolishness that goes on with that. I’m trying to prepare myself.

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