All I need now is a horde of locusts

Today is Tuesday, which means yesterday was Monday.

And boy, oh, boy, was it A MONDAY!

We've all had days like this: where everything that could go wrong, went wrong. Everything that could get lost, got lost. Everything that could break, broke. And add a dose of the stomach flu, a couple of lightning storms, flash floods, and a few power outages over the weekend, and you've got yourself one humdinger of a way to start the week. (We tried to capture some of the lightning flashes, but they came on so quickly - seriously, cracking the skies, with dozens of forks! Breathtaking and wet-your-pants-frightening at the same time! And you can't see the roads, but it only took about five minutes for a river to start flowing down the street.)

I literally woke up dizzy this morning. Probably from too many carbon-covered marshmallows we melted over the weekend. (It was all we could do to keep the kids from getting scared of the storm, okay? It was REALLY scary!)

So this morning, I did my deep breathing exercises, fifteen minutes on the elliptical, and stretched away the stress. And I had a chocolate bar with my ham and cheese omelet for breakfast. I feel much better now.

The torrential rain nearly demolished our garden this weekend, not to mention our hard drive when the power went out. Roy fought the beast all day yesterday trying to get everything back to normal -- uploaded, downloaded, restored, refreshed, resumed, and all hooked back up. And it keeps shutting down. The ornery little thing! Now I can truly empathize with Jen (who I miss, by the way!) who has to beg, borrow, or steal time on her friend's or families' computers just to blog! I was starting to have withdrawals!

Anyway -- I still have a few blankies to deliver this weekend. For those of you who are still wondering if you won, I'm not going to make you hunt anymore. Here's the official list of the winners, and if you could all please send me your addresses again since my email got wiped out, I'd be very grateful! (Or send me the address of the person you would like me to send it to, in case you were planning on giving it as a gift. I know of at least one woman who recently announced that she was expecting, and could use a new blankie!)

T, from You Asked For It. She deserves it for the best comment! "I don't do ugly..." (I can't tell you how many times that has flown through my head this weekend!)

Anne, from I Heart Giveaways (appropriate, don't you think? For someone who has devoted a whole blog to sharing all the giveaways online that she can find, it's about time she won something herself!)

SuperAnne (my thirteen year old daughter who begged and pleaded and I really tried hard not to pick her name, but I picked it anyway, and she saw it before I could pick another one. That's okay -- she helped me make them, she should at least get one!)

Pancake, who generously passed her prize on to Kaylynn, from Mike And Kaylynn and their kids. (Wasn't that sweet of her?)

Savannah, from the Foxy Family, (who had her baby last Friday! Talk about your good timing!)

Krystal, from Our Happy Family, (who also holds the record for top commenter.)

And Heidi Ashworth, from Dunhaven Place. (The woman eats chocolate frosting out of a can. She's a woman after my own heart! And I think she could use a little TLC as she is frantically trying to pump out a sequel, for goodness' sake!)