Summer Fever!!

I am tired. In an effort to get rid of the "insulation" I put on over the winter and Holidays, I have been working out twice a day at the gym. Yesterday I did over 200 squats and 200 lunges, I don't know, I totally lost count at some point. My body is screaming at me this morning, and the shin splints are awful. BUT it's working. The little muffin top that had crept upon me is gone, and there just seems to be less of me. Yay! I have not only been working hard in the gym lately, but it's been Finals week and I've been studying hard. Yesterday was my last final and I rewarded myself with a child-size chocolate almond milkshake at Braum's. I savored every sip (had to sip it, if I had gulped, it would've been gone in one gulp). There was about an inch-thick layer of almonds on the bottom, they were so yummy and made me feel better about the whole thing since almonds are the good kind of fat. I can justify anything.
I'm not sure if it's the exhaustion from working out or what, but I have been having terrible dreams this week about people close to me dying. Then I got a call Tuesday night, which I ignored because I was studying, from my mother. I totally forgot to listen to her voicemail until Wed morning, and when I did, I heard her crying and panicking, and telling me she and her husband had just had a car accident and she just wanted to talk to me and hear my voice. I immediately called her, of course. She and her husband were ok, car is most likely totalled. They had hydroplaned. Stupid rain. Geez I feel like the world's worst daughter for ignoring and forgetting phone calls from my mother, especially in her time of major need. I will have to do something extra special for Mother's Day to make up for it. Eek.
My Summer break is here and I should be happy and carefree but I am a tad bit stressed and down. Probably has a little bit to do with the nonstop rain. Or the fact that my almost 5th-grader son is growing way up before my very eyes. He has to have the smell-good squirty-squirt every morning before school, and the hair has to be just so, looking very similar to that Zac Efron guy's, which I don't love because how can a person see with their hair all in their eyes? I dunno. In the next couple of years, he is going to start noticing girls and then I will be officially freaked. In any case, I am ready for the kids to be out of school so we can start enjoying our summer together. I am ready for trips to the lake and endless days at the pool. Better mood next time I swear!