catch-up week.....

becoming a mother has taught me that i can miraculously take full care of another living breathing human being - he has survived, in tact, for over two years now! unfortunately taking care of myself has gone out the window. i mean, a girl can only do so much! so for some reason this week, i was zapped with the motivation to get all my ducks in a row. maybe it is because for once in several years now, i feel settled and "at home". maybe it is because i just turned 32 and i am nervous about aging gracefully, or disgracefully. or maybe it is because i am a stay-at-home mom who wears what my husband calls "house pants" and a tangled ponytail everyday, and while my 2-year old could care less, i was starting to feel like a schlumpadinka.

whatever it was, this was my catch-up week.
monday i went to the dentist for the first time in years. all my panicked nightmares of waking up with shattered teeth falling to a pile of dust on my pillow were unnecessary. by some act of God i still have no cavities! yeah, me! but i am a grinder and though i wear an enormous (can't-close-my-mouth-around-it) night guard, i have still shaved down my enamel and "shortened" my teeth. gross.
tuesday i got my haircut for the first time in at least a year and a half. i already gave up on coloring it a few years ago in nepal, hence the ever increasing silver strands. but apparently i gave up on cutting it too, and it has grown to the longest it has ever been in my life. and it is chock full of split ends and frizzy overgrown layers. i always kept it in a ponytail to try to disguise the mangy hay bail on top of my head. i finally got bangs cut although i have written and signed notes to myself from 2001 and 1992 (10th grade) warning myself to NEVER cut bangs again with many reasons listed why my forehead was not compatible with bangs. but i disobeyed myself and did it anyway. i am such a rebel. so far so good, except when i wake up in the morning i look like richie sambora. nothing a little water can't tame.
wednesday i had a check-up at the doctor. clean bill of health. no lumps, bumps or stumps. just headaches still. they are trying to help me find the source of my headaches, but it seems it is something they can't medicate. it is either hormonal (Lord help us all) or one of the side effects of teeth grinding. oops!
thursday i went for a walk outside. wow, big breakthrough, right? well, after the winter we've had, i have never had such cabin fever. plus, i am not much of an exerciser, though i always am a wanna-be. i always say, "i used to be an athlete" but that may not be evident in my life anymore. i am such a weakling! chasing around a 2-year old boy keeps me from being stationary, but actually getting outside, breathing fresh air, feeling the sunshine on my face and walking around the neighborhood really energized me. i took finley out too (poor boy hasn't played outside much). i pushed him on his tricycle in his enormously ill-proportioned helmet. i laugh to myself the whole time because he looks exactly like elmo when he rides his trike around sesame street. except peach and smooth.
friday i dusted off this poor old blog and i am writing something on it! but, of course, not until after i watched the price is right's primetime million dollar spectacular. ain't nothin gonna interrupt my pricing games!

so i am doing all this stuff this week with the intention of staying on top of it all from now on. who knows though. i may end up having another catch-up week in a few years. if you see me after while and my teeth are chipped and rotting out, my health and fitness are failing miserably, and my hair is looking anything like michelle duggar's, let me know it's time.