from potty training to chianti. the glamerous life of danielle smith.

One good thing about being trained to cater large groups of people is that the holiday feels like "not such a big deal"...the only problem is, to actually deal with this large group of people, i'm going to have to consume a large amount of alcohol for a week straight....then again, that's not such a bad thing.
admitedly though, things are slightly chaotic around here, getting snowed in is fun, except when you actually have things to do and places to be. of course i am behind schedule as we speak. i have not started the cranberry sauce, or the herb topped biscuits, nor the cornbread, and other confections i was planning on making and freezing. however, not all is lost, because i'll just have to do all that crap on friday....which means, laundry, grocery shopping (with a list of over 100 items), scrubbing the house, decorating my parents basement for alejandro's first birthday party (2), creating a three tier cake (with sugar cookie swimming fish and sailboat), baking all the favors, putting favors together, starting the desserts for christmas dinner, folding laundry, finishing my christmas shopping, planning my menu for the week, fighting the crowds at the post office, and to top it all off i still haven't put up the curtains in the dinning room, my scrapbook table, still haven't finished rearranging the bedroom, organizing the linen closet or the cabinets in the bathroom, i still haven't put together john's birthday present (either part) nor have i put together the baby's power wheels....and that's just friday! saturday we have to go pick tim up from the airport, go back to the house, do the whole first birthday party thing, do more christmas cooking after lugging all the birthday presents home, hopefully sleep...sunday, john's parents come in, church that morning, then a nice dinner with them...maybe at my mom's....monday is ikea for a few last minute christmas gifts and the mall, then possibly some home time with the parents, midnight mass, tuesday is christmas (duh) breakfast at our place, then over to my parents to open presents, lunch, socializing, dinner, then sleep...yay! wednesday is shots for the baby then ice skating, thursday we have to go to the university hospital to get his legs checked out and get xrays done, i haven't planned that days' activities yet, john's parents leave...thursday i think. friday we have to go shopping for new years stuff...i'm pretty sure my parents are throwin the party this year...and from there i'm pretty sure it calms down...i think...i still have to finish my orders too, now i'm cutting it really close! ahhhhh!!!!!!! the drink for this month will be da'vinci chianti....for sure.
other then my chaotic schedule things are going great, the baby is doing well potty training, i tried to convert his bed to a toddler bed, but that's not working as well as i hoped it would, especially when he wakes up at 1am when i've slipped out to smoke a cig and he starts freaking out cuz he can't find me in the house...yeaaa... i'm excited that tim will be here for almost two weeks, and i'm excited that john is happy about his parent's finally getting to see the baby. plus john will be here for a week long vacation! which is probably the most time we've spent together in over a year! i'm happy, but i know by day two with all the stress i'll probably hate him, visciously. lol.
i'm dreaming of opening a small dessert shop when i move to florida....
ps
i bought john the coolest sony ericson walkman phone for christmas. it's great, you can watch tv, movies, listen to the radio, use it as a mp3 player, lots of good stuff...why you would do any of that crap (other then the mp3 player) from your phone and watch that tiny ass screne is beyond me, but hell, it's a cool phone.

tired.

i haven't slept a good night's sleep in almost two weeks. my entire body aches. no amount of makeup can hide the LV sized bags under my eyes. i have to go back to the hospital because alejandro's braces are giving his feet blisters. i HAVE to be done with my scrapbooks by this sunday. john will not be home this weekend=two weeks without him. alejandro is on the verge of becoming sick. he has woken up every night for the past two weeks atleast every couple of hours then waking again at 8 when he just fell asleep at 630.
i'm on the verge of insanity. three weeks of this by myself is killing me. there are still so many things i have to do, so much i have to buy, so much i have to figure out. i don't know how i'm going to make it happen. i catch up, and i fall backward. i wonder if you can die from insomnia.... let's see...
there was a fire in the building in front of ours.
my father is 99.99% likely that he has diabetes and something wrong with his kidneys....
uhm, john still hasn't recieved his letter.
my nonexistant sex life sucks
and i'm almost out of cigarettes.
hmm. yea that's about it.
i'm done now.