A Day Late and a Dollar Short

• I know that it's Friday that I'm supposed to shoot you full of bullets....but it's Saturday night and I'm finally getting around to it. This should tell you something about what the last several days have been like for me.
• I have no idea where that phrase "a day late and dollar short" came from. Maybe it's not even a well-known phrase. Have you ever heard it? This is why I need one of those books that tells you the origin of phrases like that and how words come to be used in a way that was clearly not the original intent. That is absolutely the kind of book that interests me. My cousin gave me a book about the story behind dedications of famous novels; I relished it. I love that kind of thing.
  
• Baby J was sick this week. He cried pretty much all day Thursday. I took him to the doctor. He had an ear infection and, I think, the same thing that I had last week. This is the first time he's been sick and he's eight months old so that's not bad. But he's so very pitiful when sick. I'm glad he's on the mend.
  
• Guess who is having another go-around with last week's illness that she was so fond of? Your faithful Bell, that's who. I felt SO BAD last night. I was just tired all day, and that made sense after being up with the baby in the night, but then it hit me around supper time. It was like something literally hit me--like a truck or something. I went to bed as soon as I put Baby J down. Woke up feeling WORSE this morning and the fever was back. I have just been worthless today. So glad it was Saturday. Also, so very glad that Baby J was the only child under my jurisdiction for most of the day.
  
• I had a awful dream last night and then today, when I napped during Baby J's afternoon nap, I had another horrible dream. I'm not one to do a whole lot of dreaming anyway, but very rarely do I have bad dreams. What's the deal with two in one twenty four hour period? I don't like it.
• Guess what is coming this week? If you let the music play like a nice Dear Reader, you have been given a big hint. September!!! September is coming THIS WEEK. I'm so glad. So very glad. I love the fall (bet you didn't know that!) and I can tell it's on its way but it really helps when you can turn to calendar pages that have leaves and pumpkins on them. "It's the most wonderful time of the year!" (Andy Williams was off by a few months.)
  
• Kind of feel like with my life right now, it's like when you get into a canoe and you have to find your balance. Do you know what I mean? There's a wobble here and there. You've got to wobble to get in and get your feet planted. But then it might take a second for you to get the feel of things. That's what I feel like I'm doing. I have just thought so many times of a phrase from the Bible this week, about how the Lord "gently leads" those who are with young. That speaks volumes to me and I am so thankful for a God who understands and has sympathy for me.
  
• How many times do you think I've been in a canoe in my life? Have we ever discussed your crazy Bell's issues with water? That's like a whole post to itself. Not for today.
• Lloyd Dobbler fixed the the thingy (there I go using technical terms again) that was preventing me from downloading pictures--or is it uploading? I don't know which direction it is. So I have pictures from this summer to show you again. I'll throw one in here and there rather than dump them all on you at once. Here's me and the babes on the porch on July 4th....I think we were headed out the door on our way to church. (for the record: my boys do have shoes. And feel free to admire the inside of my skirt shown in this photo.)
• I've had my hair chopped off since that picture. I like it in some ways. I just don't really like anything about my appearance right now. I see pictures of myself and I'm appalled. I've got to do a number of things...for the sake of my health, my appearance, my sanity....but there's just never time or money for it.....oh well....someday....
• Lovely K got her hair cut since that picture too. She looks so cute. It's the really short bob like she had before. It's just the cutest thing on her. It's like the perfect haircut for her age and for who she is. I don't have a picture of it to show you yet.
• I'm listening to #6 on the juke box right now. I don't know why I love that song, but I do. It's a great house-cleaning song. If only I wear cleaning house right now....
• I already know I'm not going to church tomorrow morning. That's kind of a weird feeling. But Baby J and I are staying home. I've got to get better, got to get over this. I can't do everything I have to do and be Sicky Sickerton. I'd better go take a mouthful of Vitamin C again before Lloyd Dobbler yells at me about that.
• Let's have a good week, Dear Reader. I've got a busy one stretching out before me, but it will be a good one (I hope). Take care. Don't get sick---whatever this is going around is nasty. You don't want it. Go wash your hands right now.
  
• Bang-bang.