If you haven’t read this then I should tell you again that for the month of November I will be taking part in NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month). This is going to be a big deal for me. I didn’t do it last year, although I was tempted and felt left out all at the same time. So here is my first NaBloPoMo blog post. I should preface this writing by telling you that I wrote out this E.N.T.I.R.E post last night Wednesday on my train ride home. I was so proud of myself. Thinking hey, NaBloPoMo universe…take that…29 days to go…woohoo. And then…THEN? My Treo hand held email device thingy-ma-bobber went and blew itself up this morning on the train and I. Couldn’t. Get. Into. My. Email. Period. I had my post saved in an email I was going to send to myself and post first thing this yesterday morning. Really?…it was just par for the course as you will soon read/discover in my post…just wait…you’ll see!!!

So without further ado? Bring it on…NaBloPoMo!!!

I joined a group within NaBloPoMo. A few actually. I joined a Breastfeeding and mothering group, mommy bloggers group and a 30 days of thanks group. This particular post is more along the lines of the 1st day of my 30 days of thanks. And here’s how it goes…(Not…this was to be posted yesterday but I was so busy at work I didn’t have time to rewrite this post.)

Title: Eleventy-two reasons why I am thankful HELLoween is over and I don’t have to worry about it for another 364 363 days. by Li’l Foot’s Mommy

I thought when I woke up it was going to be a fabulous Halloween for once. Li’l Foot had slept through the night despite the teething that is her my hell.  I’m not a big fan of Halloween, although I love things surrounding Halloween like the autumn leaves, the smell of apple cider and donuts at the orchard, taking a gazillion pictures of Li’l Foot with pumpkins at the pumpkin patch. You know all the fun stuff. I thought yesterday was going to be different, I thought hey, she slept through the night, I’m golden.  Well it didn’t take long before things took a drastic turn for the worse.

1st reason I am thankful HELLoween is over: After getting ready upstairs, I settled Li’l Foot into her high chair with some Kix and sidled up to the bathroom sink, pulled out my hair dryer and my round blow dryer brush from the basket above the toilet (if you think you know where this is going…think again!) and then I swung around only to lose control of the round brush I didn’t quite have a firm grasp on (I’m telling you, this is not going where you think it is, but I promise you won’t be disappointed) and the round brush (of which I only have one) fell from my grasp directly onto the pile of poop in the cat’s litter box.  Seriously?  When does the cat ever poop IN the litter box?  It’s always 4 inches to the right of the litter box…ALWAYS!!!  GDI!!!  (So this was what tipped me off that although Li’l Foot slept through the night, I was bound to resent ever thinking this HELLoween would be any different for the other five hundreddy million I’ve hated prior to this one.

2nd reason I am thankful HELLoween is over: After resorting to drying my hair with my normal brush and seeing my hair would look like nothing more than a used mop head that just swept up the elementary school cafeteria floor I decided I would put Li’l Foot in the body suit piece of her costume and then once I get to daycare I would put the hat and the shell pieces on and be all good and take pictures so that I could post real day pictures on this blog first thing HELLoween morning.  When I went to zip up the costume after putting it on the squirmiest 9 & 1/2 month old you’ve ever known, I got about an inch up from the bottom of the zipper and then the zipper got caught on the fabric inside the costume.  So I was left to fight with a squirmy child in my lap, already having donned my jacket so now I was sweating and try to dislodge the stupid zipper.  That costume…it needs to just be buried.  (Note: DO NOT ever buy anything from Amazon dot com if they are a third party seller for a company named Brands On Sale…they suck. Do. Not. Like! Hate!

3rd reason I am thankful HELLoween is over: After all that blood, sweat and tears that went into fixing the zipper at the house, I get to daycare, pull Li’l Foot out of her seat, put on the shell and the hat, bring her inside and before I could blink an eye the daycare lady looked at Li’l Foot, commented how cute and then promptly took off the costume…all before I could say, wait, stop I need a picture for my blogoshere friends!!!

4th reason I am thankful HELLoween is over: On my way to the train station I had the unfortunate displeasure of getting stuck behind a Sunday driver mistakenly out on the road on a Wednesday…a Sunday driver who happened to be driving a big-pimpin-old-Cadillac-monster-car going about negative eleventy miles per hour.  And shall I mention that if we were approaching a green traffic light he’d slow down anyway which in turn made the light turn yellow and then red.  Gah!!!

5th reason I am thankful HELLoween is over: After getting stuck behind the big-pimpin-old-Cadillac-monster-car (who by the way was a young guy driving) I might’ve overcompensated for having to drive so slow behind him and used the gas pedal a tad too much because when I was coming down the hill to the train station (down. a. hill. mind you!!!) I was caught speeding (49 in a 30) by an MTA cop! And here’s the thing, he was all “can I see your license” and then in the next breath…”Ummm, are you sure this is your driver’s license?” Uhhh, no I just found it on the side of the road and figured it kind of looked like me so I tossed mine out…YES you freaking asshat, it’s me only I had just gotten back from my honeymoon in that picture and my hi lites are really blonde and I’ve had a kid since then…thanks for making me feel like crap.  And then he noticed the PBA sticker in the windshield and was all, “Where’d ya get the PBA sticker?”  And when I told him from my mother-in-law, he asked if I had the card too? Yes I do, and as I rummaged for it, he asked me if my MIL was a cop and I said no…she’s in the administrative department there.  And then I failed miserably at finding the PBA card.  He asked me if the car was mine.  I said yes…although wanted to say…nope…found this on the side of the road too and it said free to a good home!!!  He asked me if my license was clean and I said yes, which it is.  So he told me he’d go check it out and be right back.  Fine…and while I sat there I was loving my MIL more than I already had (and that’s the truth).  And then when it took more than the allotted time to check my license, I still loved my MIL but HATED that cop for existing.  And sure enough he came back with a speeding ticket.  And then had the balls to be all, “Hey just a tip…plead not guilty to the ticket and then when you get to court for your appearance I’ll lower it to a lesser offense, mmmmkay?” (Insert blogosphere earmuffs and bad-word-blinder here) Fucker!

6th reason I am thankful HELLoween is over: I got to work, set up my laptop to work in the conference room and about 5 minutes into working, spilled coffee on my laptop’s keyboard.  And even drying it off couldn’t save the shift key, the “a” key, the “w” key and the “x” key from ceasing to function!!!  (bed, where’s my bed, I need my bed…this day. is. just. too. much. to. bare. without. my. bed.)

7th reason I am thankful HELLoween is over: It was the 3rd day in a row that I had only one chance to pump.  And if you add on yesterday, you can bring the final tally to 4 days in a row I only pumped one time the entire day.

8th reason I am thankful HELLoween is over: As I typed this email originally on that Treo hand held thingy-ma-bobber I was suddenly was stopped from typing anymore.  I had reached the maximum capacity for one email while typing up my post.  So I had to start a new “part 2″ email.  So really i lost both of them when my Treo imploded yesterday morning.

9th reason I am thankful HELLoween is over: As I was driving home from the train station I called ahead to hubbie to be ready to go to Pocklock’s house when i got there and please pack food for Li’l foot and her jammies.  He was all, “Wha? I didn’t know we were going anywhere!”  Yes he did by the way. But this was just the icing on the cake of my day…to have all the other things in my universe fall out of whack and then hubbie not be with me to close out my day…fan. ___ing. tastic!!!
10th reason why I am thanful HELLoween is over: I don’t have to think about (at least for another 363 days) that one year when I was a kid and I answered our front door only to be met with an egg that hit me in my eye…and then have my father run after the culprits and be sprayed by a fire extinguisher they stole from the church, they ditched said fire extinguisher (which my father brought back).  That incident sealed my HELLoween fate.  I’ve hated it ever since.

So there you have it.  NaBloPoMo has begun and I missed my first day of 30 days of thanks posting yesterday because of that stupid Treo thingy-ma-bobber.  I guess I’ll have to post two thankful posts today.  hopefully my next one will be full of thankfulness having nothing to do with anything negative.  I think I can manage that.