Insert Simile For Exhausted Here

I've spent the majority of the past two weeks studying my ass off for one test or another. Originally, I had planned to spend all of last weekend studying for the CPT Math exam in order to take my test on Monday, but by Monday it was clear I was going to need a few more days to finish the lessons in the book, after all, it is 207 pages long. I made the decision to take the test Thursday or Friday instead.

Wednesday night came, but I thought I would need just one more night to review. Thursday night came and suddenly, I wasn't feeling well enough about how much I was retaining to take it. I decided to spend the weekend preparing for my family to arrive and taking the test Monday. After all, if I would have failed it on Friday, I would have been mad at myself for not giving me the weekend to study some more since there isn't anything class schedule wise I could sign up for until at the earliest, Monday.

I've had less than six hours of sleep since Friday trying to get this place picked up, cleaned, and de-cluttered enough for my family arriving Sunday afternoon. I wish I would have had the balls enough to take before and after shots, but it was a tad embarrassing. Let's just say, after being friends with kristencmcd for over a year, I would invite her inside my house now.

My legs and back are extremely sore. If I sit for more than a minute or two, my body gives me hell the moment I start to move again. But you know what? It's totally worth it. My house looks amazing. It will be a lot easier to keep up with since the tough part is over. I managed to take four bags of clothes to Goodwill, too.

As for the game? We didn't have anyone guess it correctly, but the closest was Miss Ruby. She guessed 8 bags, but the actual total was 14 garbage bags and 5 boxes worth of crap.

I still have four bags of clean laundry to fold and one large bag of laundry to wash. I didn't have but about one load of clothes to do from our normal laundry pile, but I cleaned out a ton of boxes and bags from when I moved down here and I need to wash what's been in boxes for nearly two years. Ahem.

It's 3 am right now and the rest of the house is sleeping soundly. I tried to clean my office some and put away the laundry, but after cleaning A's play area, I decided I had enough of moving and cleaning for one weekend.

Since cleaning the place took a little LOT longer to clean than I had planned, I've decided to hold off on taking the CPT until either Tuesday or Wednesday. I'm aiming for Tuesday though, so keep a look out for a very hopefully happy post about that soon.

As a side note, I would like to ask for two prayers.

My mom told me tonight that she is going to spend the week talking, pleading, and praying to and for K to sign A over to us. It's a lot harder to get things done like school and shots when you're not legally someones guardian, especially when their parent doesn't care enough in the first place. In a perfect world, K wouldn't need to be having this discussion, instead she would be taking care of her parental duties like she's supposed to do, but unfortunately this is an imperfect world. We (my mom, NYEBoy, and the family) only want what's best for A. K is grown, it's A's future we're worried about most. K controls her destiny, A does not.

I also would love a prayer or two my way regarding this Math CPT exam. I am doing wonderful when NYEBoy is sitting next to me, but for some reason, some things aren't clicking when I'm off on my own. I understand I am studying a lot and trying to remember a courses' worth of work in less than a week, but I really, really want to pass this test. I know without a doubt I will know it all before school starts, so I don't want to start my first semester our bored in one class.