lesson of the year never leave precious photos on camera....

well, last week was the hardest week i have had in a while....both girls had a viral infection (meaning antibiotics won't kick it in the ass) of which annie is still fighting, most likely needing to go back to pediatrician tomorrow, i might have lost my office/baby help (partly because i can blow like a volcano that has been dormant for 150 years) and it was a holiday week so payday was a day early. i will finish catching up some of the sleep i am most defiantly deprived of tonite and open a bottle of wine tomorrow for a sit in the dark while the girls fall asleep chat session with myself thus sharing a tale or two of mommy meltdown with you.
the one great thing from last week is my new camera arrived...ok, so it is the replacement to the really awesome camera i bought jeff last father's day. i discovered four days to late i threw that really awesome gift in the trash when we returned from a mini vacation last month. now i am taking full responsibility being i am the one who actually placed the shopping bag with really awesome father's day gift inside the trash can, BUT to my defense when the trucks were unloaded everything went through the front door and into the main living room, so when i found said shopping bag in the garage with empty plastic bottles and west, texas goodie boxes in it i figured it had to be trash......the worst part of it is i came to the realization literally 3 minutes too late. after asking jeff where the camera was because for the second day in a row the girls looked extra cute he replied with an "i don't know, where did you leave it".....so thinking back the last time i remembered seeing camera with two full months of baby can't get that on camera again pictures including new vacation photos not yet downloaded to computer was when we were packing up the vacation house. OH, SHIT..i quickly called my sister who was at my house and she sadly told me the trash man just picked up the trash. she hopped in the truck and chased him down with me frantically freakin, as jeff would say, in her ear. my sister actually pulls in front of the trash man five houses down the street and begs the trash man to wait because i am doing 90 mph to get home and climb through his truck to find my now lost pictures of super adorable girls. through the language barrier he somehow explains to wendy that the truck automatically turns the trash and it is most likely on the bottom of the pile but, he remembers the bag from our trash can (weird, huh) and will look for it when the truck is dumped...of course, i am trying to get her to find out where and what time because i want to be there myself.
anyhoo, after a not so friendly customer service representative at tarrant waste management tells me i am not allowed to rummage through the dump site to try my hardest to find lost camera full of precious once-in-a-lifetime pics i go to the bathroom and throw up. and again, i won't be winning mother of the year, or any other i can keep it together awards, hell i can't even blow dry my hair daily what am i thinking.
so back to only thing keeping me going last week.....i used some of our credit card points and purchased a new camera to replace the really awesome father's day gift i bought jeff last year. without getting into the technicality of it....we could almost think of it as a free camera....a bonus for all my credit card swiping, ha, maybe i will be up for the thrifty mom award (that one is for you, honey....you can pick yourself up off the floor i know it was a far fetch).
so with this replacement camera i will be adding pictures to my blog.
oh, we made it to storytime again last week....15 minutes late but hey it still counts!

see you tomorrow after a glass or two of "mommy juice".