Blah - a feeling of boredom, lethargy, or general dissatisfaction.
Ughhh...I have a case of the "blahs" the last few days. I don't prefer to feel this way, I truly like to be more productive during my time at home, but I can't shake the way I've been feeling lately. All I want to do is sleep (which I never can really because of Luke) and I want to hide away from society in my house all by myself. Yuck! How boring is that?
So...I decided that maybe, to try to get rid of the blahs that I've been having, I should give myself a little question and answer session and include all of you as to humor myself and possibly remind me of good things and happy things so here goes.
1) What is your full name? - Dana Joyce Degnitz Dahm
2) Have you ever wished your name was different? - Heck no. Truthfully I feel very lucky that my parents picked out such a unique name and only once the entire time I went to school did I have somebody with the same name and she only stayed at our school for one year I think.
3) Do you have siblings? - Yes I have two. My brother, Dion, is 10 years older than me and my sister, Delene, is 8 years older than me. I remember as a child the two of them fighting A LOT but I rarely fought with them because of the age difference. We really didn't have many things to fight about.
4) First memory that pops into your head about each sibling? - Well with Dion I think it would have to be me idolizing him. He was my handsome, older brother and well, I just thought he was the greatest. In fact when my girlfriends would sleep over and we would play truth or dare, sometimes we would dare each other to sneak into his room and give him a kiss on the cheek while he was sleeping. LOL! And well, I would have to say with my sister it would just be hanging out with her when I had gotten a little older and she was driving and we would go to some picnics or fairs together to see Rocket 88 (she loved this band). I also spent a lot of time with her when her children were first born and loved those days. And she taught me to crochet when I was small.
5) What are some of your best childhood memories? - Hanging out at the race track where my Dad raced on the weekends. Times were so much different then seriously. For example, as a parent now, if I don't see my kids next door at the playground for 15 minutes or so I start to worry where they are or who took them. When I was little and hanging out at the race track I could seriously run crazy all day long with my friends (most of who were boys there) and my parents never really came looking for us. They were just happy I wasn't bothering them or asking for money :)
Another good memory would be going up north most summers for a week on our family vacation to Big Sand Lake. Some friends of my parents had a cottage up there that they rented out and we would go there almost every year to fish and just relax. My fondest memories up there are of seeing the bald eagles in their ginormous nests on the point while out on the lake fishing. I can also remember every night putting our scraps from supper out on the deck by the all glass front of the cottage and waiting patiently for the raccoons to come up, oh so sheepishly, to chow down. We sat as still as we could inside and watched. As a child this was super cool stuff. There was one raccoon that came up a few years in a row that was missing its tail.
6) Where is your favorite place to vacation? - The first destination that pops into my head is sunny Arizona. I love the warmth and the saguaro cactus that surround the entire area but the biggest reason I like going there is to visit all of our friends that have migrated there over the years. When we see them again and have our get togethers, stories are shared from the past, a lot of laughing is done and you forget about all of the craziness of your normal life.
Honestly though, I have been quite a few places already over the years and I couldn't really pick a favorite. I have loved all of them in one way or another and appreciated something from each place. I am very partial to mountains though I'll confess, so send me out west anywhere by the Rocky Mountains and I'm pretty thankful. I will never get over their beauty.
7) What things do you like to do in your free time? - Free time? What is that? Ha ha. No really, IF I get free time by myself, which is like NEVER, I like to go to stores like Home Depot and just browse and dream about if I had the talent to fix things I would buy this and buy that to fix up my house. Or I would just go to a movie all by myself and then maybe for lunch. And yeah, I like to browse at the Hobby Lobby too and get ideas about things. If I have some free time with just the kids then I will usually take them out for lunch somewhere that Jeff won't go to (he is extremely fussy about where he eats and won't try new places), like Chilis or Beanies or Buffalo Wild Wings, and after lunch we might go play at a playground for a while or sometimes hit a movie, it depends on our mood at the time. Also, I like to crochet, make photo books on Shutterfly or Mixbook, I recently taught myself to quilt and have that on my to do list for the near future and I could spend a great portion of my day just listening and singing to the many songs on my IPOD.
Enough with the questions, here are just a few thoughts and tidbits running through my mind at the moment.
***I need a break from my 4 year old. Seriously, I love the kid but I am at home with him every day of the week, pretty much every hour I am awake, most of the time by myself. One of these days I really have to pawn him off on somebody to have some alone time where I can just do something for me. That rarely happens and if it does it's usually for a dentist appointment or something I'm not enjoying anyway.
***My hair is getting long. It just dawned on me that I haven't been to a hair salon since April of 2011. So I haven't had a haircut or professional coloring of any kind since then.
***Do any other wives get along with their mother-in-laws? I'm not gonna elaborate here or I could get myself in trouble, but seriously am I the only one who is really irritated by mine and never had a special, trusting relationship with her?
***I LOVE my fleece jammie bottoms!!! I wear these pretty much every day at home between milkings and they are soooo warm and so comfie. I think I need a few more.
***A little secret, don't share with my husband if you know him. My husband is also fussy about his soda. He is a Coke man all the way, prefers not to drink Pepsi if he doesn't have to. Most milkings at the farm we each have a soda. His Mom usually has a good supply in her fridge that we get it from and she usually has a variety. In the past I would bring out two cans of Coke, one for him and one for me but I found that part way through the milking he would open the soda that I brought out for myself and start drinking that one too when he was done with his and then when I finally got a chance to stop and take a drink it would be 1/2 gone and it ticked me off. Sooo...I wised up. I now drink Pepsi or some kind of soda I know he doesn't like. He doesn't touch my soda now!!!
***The other day when looking through my house and stressing over the fact that I felt I would never get caught up no matter how hard I tried I calmed myself down and convinced myself not to stress anymore and get used to the fact that until my kids are out of the house it will not be in order. I feel better today about it.
***I made Sam's favorite dish for supper tonight - Australian Pepper Steak. Don't ask me what's Australian about it, I'm pretty sure there isn't any kangaroo meat in it or anything, but that's what the recipe is called. She'll be happy.
***I should really stop now. I'm sure I'm boring all of you to death. Sorry. When I get started sometimes I just can't stop.
So, it's Hump Day today, heh? For you normal Monday through Friday people it's all downhill from here. For people like me the days of the week really don't mean too much, they all run together. This helped my blah mood, remembering some good things and sharing some of these random thoughts. My brain has too much time to think some days. That's not always a good thing.
I hope you all have a great rest of the week!!! Ta ta for now.
So...I decided that maybe, to try to get rid of the blahs that I've been having, I should give myself a little question and answer session and include all of you as to humor myself and possibly remind me of good things and happy things so here goes.
1) What is your full name? - Dana Joyce Degnitz Dahm
2) Have you ever wished your name was different? - Heck no. Truthfully I feel very lucky that my parents picked out such a unique name and only once the entire time I went to school did I have somebody with the same name and she only stayed at our school for one year I think.
3) Do you have siblings? - Yes I have two. My brother, Dion, is 10 years older than me and my sister, Delene, is 8 years older than me. I remember as a child the two of them fighting A LOT but I rarely fought with them because of the age difference. We really didn't have many things to fight about.
4) First memory that pops into your head about each sibling? - Well with Dion I think it would have to be me idolizing him. He was my handsome, older brother and well, I just thought he was the greatest. In fact when my girlfriends would sleep over and we would play truth or dare, sometimes we would dare each other to sneak into his room and give him a kiss on the cheek while he was sleeping. LOL! And well, I would have to say with my sister it would just be hanging out with her when I had gotten a little older and she was driving and we would go to some picnics or fairs together to see Rocket 88 (she loved this band). I also spent a lot of time with her when her children were first born and loved those days. And she taught me to crochet when I was small.
5) What are some of your best childhood memories? - Hanging out at the race track where my Dad raced on the weekends. Times were so much different then seriously. For example, as a parent now, if I don't see my kids next door at the playground for 15 minutes or so I start to worry where they are or who took them. When I was little and hanging out at the race track I could seriously run crazy all day long with my friends (most of who were boys there) and my parents never really came looking for us. They were just happy I wasn't bothering them or asking for money :)
Another good memory would be going up north most summers for a week on our family vacation to Big Sand Lake. Some friends of my parents had a cottage up there that they rented out and we would go there almost every year to fish and just relax. My fondest memories up there are of seeing the bald eagles in their ginormous nests on the point while out on the lake fishing. I can also remember every night putting our scraps from supper out on the deck by the all glass front of the cottage and waiting patiently for the raccoons to come up, oh so sheepishly, to chow down. We sat as still as we could inside and watched. As a child this was super cool stuff. There was one raccoon that came up a few years in a row that was missing its tail.
6) Where is your favorite place to vacation? - The first destination that pops into my head is sunny Arizona. I love the warmth and the saguaro cactus that surround the entire area but the biggest reason I like going there is to visit all of our friends that have migrated there over the years. When we see them again and have our get togethers, stories are shared from the past, a lot of laughing is done and you forget about all of the craziness of your normal life.
Honestly though, I have been quite a few places already over the years and I couldn't really pick a favorite. I have loved all of them in one way or another and appreciated something from each place. I am very partial to mountains though I'll confess, so send me out west anywhere by the Rocky Mountains and I'm pretty thankful. I will never get over their beauty.
7) What things do you like to do in your free time? - Free time? What is that? Ha ha. No really, IF I get free time by myself, which is like NEVER, I like to go to stores like Home Depot and just browse and dream about if I had the talent to fix things I would buy this and buy that to fix up my house. Or I would just go to a movie all by myself and then maybe for lunch. And yeah, I like to browse at the Hobby Lobby too and get ideas about things. If I have some free time with just the kids then I will usually take them out for lunch somewhere that Jeff won't go to (he is extremely fussy about where he eats and won't try new places), like Chilis or Beanies or Buffalo Wild Wings, and after lunch we might go play at a playground for a while or sometimes hit a movie, it depends on our mood at the time. Also, I like to crochet, make photo books on Shutterfly or Mixbook, I recently taught myself to quilt and have that on my to do list for the near future and I could spend a great portion of my day just listening and singing to the many songs on my IPOD.
Enough with the questions, here are just a few thoughts and tidbits running through my mind at the moment.
***I need a break from my 4 year old. Seriously, I love the kid but I am at home with him every day of the week, pretty much every hour I am awake, most of the time by myself. One of these days I really have to pawn him off on somebody to have some alone time where I can just do something for me. That rarely happens and if it does it's usually for a dentist appointment or something I'm not enjoying anyway.
***My hair is getting long. It just dawned on me that I haven't been to a hair salon since April of 2011. So I haven't had a haircut or professional coloring of any kind since then.
***Do any other wives get along with their mother-in-laws? I'm not gonna elaborate here or I could get myself in trouble, but seriously am I the only one who is really irritated by mine and never had a special, trusting relationship with her?
***I LOVE my fleece jammie bottoms!!! I wear these pretty much every day at home between milkings and they are soooo warm and so comfie. I think I need a few more.
***A little secret, don't share with my husband if you know him. My husband is also fussy about his soda. He is a Coke man all the way, prefers not to drink Pepsi if he doesn't have to. Most milkings at the farm we each have a soda. His Mom usually has a good supply in her fridge that we get it from and she usually has a variety. In the past I would bring out two cans of Coke, one for him and one for me but I found that part way through the milking he would open the soda that I brought out for myself and start drinking that one too when he was done with his and then when I finally got a chance to stop and take a drink it would be 1/2 gone and it ticked me off. Sooo...I wised up. I now drink Pepsi or some kind of soda I know he doesn't like. He doesn't touch my soda now!!!
***The other day when looking through my house and stressing over the fact that I felt I would never get caught up no matter how hard I tried I calmed myself down and convinced myself not to stress anymore and get used to the fact that until my kids are out of the house it will not be in order. I feel better today about it.
***I made Sam's favorite dish for supper tonight - Australian Pepper Steak. Don't ask me what's Australian about it, I'm pretty sure there isn't any kangaroo meat in it or anything, but that's what the recipe is called. She'll be happy.
***I should really stop now. I'm sure I'm boring all of you to death. Sorry. When I get started sometimes I just can't stop.
So, it's Hump Day today, heh? For you normal Monday through Friday people it's all downhill from here. For people like me the days of the week really don't mean too much, they all run together. This helped my blah mood, remembering some good things and sharing some of these random thoughts. My brain has too much time to think some days. That's not always a good thing.
I hope you all have a great rest of the week!!! Ta ta for now.
Love this. I get you on the days when you're just feeling 'blah' and in a funk! If you ever want Luke to come over, we have the largest tote of tractors and combines and wagons and things I don't even know what they are, that I'm sure he would love to show Cameron how to use!!
ReplyDeleteI really like your posts. You are very sincere and not afraid to admit that you have bad days, kids can be really hard and mother-in-laws may not get along with daughter-in-laws (or vice versa). Often times we gloss over those things when talking to friends and family. You should know that you are normal, we all deal with these items. We may not discuss them openly all the time, but we deal with them.
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