if you would like to watch a really great sitcom, come hang out in my house this week. between the building and the moving and the switching and the new schools and the packed work schedule and the driving and the late nights and the early mornings, i think my little brain is just spilling stuff over the edges. it's actually quite funny. here are some things my stress-induced head have caused me to do this week:

1. i've licked, stamped, addressed and mailed envelopes without putting anything inside.
2. i went for a bike ride and about an hour later realized i never turned on the ipod in my ears. where was that music coming from?
3. i have cried in front of my friends, the muckdogs, a school full of strangers, the postman, the checkout lady at the grocery store and my mother-in-law. all in one day.
4. i have driven down the interstate to retrieve a chair that fell out of the husband's truck, jumped out to save the chair from a man who was carrying it away and THEN realized i was still in my pajamas.
5. i dreamed that i wrote a brochure that was due today, woke up and came downstairs to write it only to find that it WAS written. now that is scary.

on top of it all, i lost my ability to look at blogs or write blogs. something crazy going on with my system over here. maybe i better break out the owners manual to this computer. it's in a plastic bag in a box somewhere. anyway, i told bobbi i was blocked from blogs and she exclaimed, "that means you have no friends!!" funny thing is, she was serious. i have missed you all. wish i had more time to catch up, i have "first day at the new school" pics to post. the kids seem to be doing ok so far, big j was really bummed that he doesn't have recess or lunch with little j. i had a very hard time holding it all together, so MY first day of school was not very good. all i could think was, "look at all these faces i don't know. i don't like this! i want to go home!" at the same time, my kids are begging me to please let go of their hands. he he.

i think i summed up my problem last night. i have no tolerance for change. i like things to stay the same. i have had the same hairdresser for the past 11 years. she works on the very far side of sioux falls, and a lot of the time she rips my eyebrows off and leaves raw skin. which is what she did last night. i was rubbing them on my way home when i thought about getting a new hairdresser in the new town since it will be about an hour and a half drive once we move. thing is, i like her, even if she does cause bodily injury. and i know that i will keep her. just like i'll keep my dentist, my doctor and my optometrist.

it's just too hard to change.