Man, it's been nice here... I even went swimming yesterday! (Although some of my family here thought it was cold enough to warrant jeans and even long sleeves)... Boogie has been relatiely well behaved, and I have tons of pictures already -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/jewjewbee/sets -- of all the fun we've been having... No guarantee that I will be back online before we get home, though... We have a whole lot more fun (Grand Canyon, sliding rock, Hoover Dam, old western town, general Vegas attractions, etc.) planned for the days ahead!!! Later days...
Clark never ceases to amaze me... He stayed home from work today and got all sorts of unsoldering and soldering done... So, it seems that we should be able to turn water back on in our house again tonight! There is one small leak that he is patching as I type, and then we should be good to go... Oh, my, I am sooooooo happy! On a side note, I just wanted to remind everyone that my posts and e-mail checking will probably be sparse over the next week... (Arizona, Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, and Vegas, baby!!!)... Later days...
Water everywhere, but not to take a shower... Bah! After I finished cleaning the fish tank, I noticed that the effing faucet in the tub/shower was leaking... I looked it up online, and it seemed easy enough to fix, so I decided to go for it... When we opened up the tub/shower valve, we saw that it was actually broken enough that it required a new one... But the new one that Clark bought is different enough that we have to un-solder some pipes and start from scratch... Plus, the water shut-offs in our house are inefficient and don't shut off all the way -- so there is either water leaking from the damn water main line coming into our house (when we try to shut that all the way off) or water oozing from the area in which we need to put the new shower valve (when we try to just shut down water to the bathroom)... Life needs an effing "undo" button... I would much rather have had the stupid little drip instead of this whole mess -- especially two freakin days before we go away on vacation... Grrrrrrrr... Later days...
Clark: hey sweetie ... how was your morning?
Me: my morning has been ok ...yours?
Clark: i almost got blown up ...i got gas this morning ($36.35) ...and some lady next too me left her car on while she was pumping ... i told her that she should turn her car off
Me: omg... thats dumb
Me: hahaahahaha
Clark: i told her that i didn't want to explode
Me: well, i guess exploding keeps you rather toasty!
Clark: she said "that's very unlikely to happen" ... i said "unlikely or not, your car has a combustion engine - its job is to cause explosions" ...thankfully she was nearly done and left very quickly
Clark: hehe
Later days...
Than what I posted yesterday, and much less whiny than what I posted this morning... Enjoy!
Later days...
Aren't what they used to be... I cannot believe that a so-called feminist wrote this article -- http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/single-marry... And this article -- http://www.boston.com/jobs/news/articles/2008/03/02/want_to_have_a_baby_nows_the_time/ -- is just as frightening... WTF, people?!? I love how it's always all about how women have to settle and how women need to make mating a priority... How about convincing a few guys to settle down a little sooner? To stop trying to bone every chick who walks by and focus on finding a partner for life? Grrrr... Later days...
That is so sad, sick, effed up... I hate people who could do something like this and then shrug it off... Later days...
As a librarian, I obviously realize the danger of putting too much value on information you find through Wikipedia... For those of you who need proof, nevertheless, Flower and I came across this little gem last week...
OMG... Are people really that freakin' stupid, or did they do it on purpose to prove how long it might stay uncorrected?!? Note: It is corrected now, but it was like that for at least 1/2 day -- we kept checking to see if it was fixed yet! Sure hope no teenagers decided to do their social studies "religions of the world" homework with Wikipedia that day... Later days...
Ramadan is a Jewish religious observance that takes place during the ninth month of the Hebrew calendar, believed to be the month in which the Qur'an began to be revealed.
It has been so long since I have actually sat down and blogged about all the things I have been planning on blogging... Today's post will be rather long, and it will probably jump from one topic to the next... Feel free to skip this one if you don't want to get all dizzy!
Where to start?!? Well, the other day I was planning on blogging something that was rather shocking to me, but I somehow never got online that day, or the next, or the next, etc.... I wonder what you all will think, though, so I feel compelled to post about it even though it happened on Monday... I was driving down the highway, at about 65mph, when I noticed a dog running around (loose) in the back of an open-bed pickup truck ahead of us... I called 911 and the operator, basically, told me that he thought I was wasting his time... He asked if I really thought it was an emergency... I responded, "For that dog and the drivers who are surrounding that truck, yes, I would say this constitutes an emergency!" He sounded exasperated, and told me that he didn't think it was an emergency, nor did he believe it was illegal... I was pissed, but I still don't know to whom I should register a complaint... Any ideas?
I crashed storytime the other day, with Boogie, and then went out to lunch with Bagel... She is such a bum! We agreed to split the bill and she paid for it behind my back! But, that is not the funniest part... The funniest part is that Boogie looked like he was taking tequila shots at lunch... Why was that?!? Because he was sprinkling "stinky cheese" (parmesan) onto his drink lid, licking it off, and washing it down with a quick sip of his lemonade... Hilarious! That is, after he actually ended up with lemonade... I was pretty upset when it happened, though I realized it was not the end of the world, but they actually gave him freakin' soda instead of lemonade at first... He said something about his drink "burning" his mouth, and I thought he was just being silly, so I told him to stop being silly and drink his drink... Man, I feel like that mom at Chili's whose kid had the margarita... After a while, he wanted the lid off, so he could get a piece of ice, and I noticed the carbonation... I was not thrilled, but I didn't pitch a fit (even though I wanted to)... Bagel says we should have figured it out when Boogie kept taking sips and then asking how old he had to be to have soda -- "I have to be 2?!?" I was like, "No! You have to be much older." Now we know why he was so confused! Geesh, people! I know that some people let their toddlers drink soda, but we asked for LEMONADE!!!
Boogie is being really cute all the time, but he is also getting on my nerves a lot lately... He says the same things over, and over, and over again in hopes that I will suddenly jump up and cater to his every whim... "I wanna watch tv... I wanna watch TV... I wanna watch TV!" ... How about, NO! I know that is what toddlers are all about, but, man, it drives me nuts! It's like that episode of Family Guy where Stewie is going, "Mom... Mom... Momma... Momma... Mommy... Mommy... Lois... Lois..."
I feel like I have not seen many of my friends in entirely too long... I see the friends that I work with, and that is good at least, but I really have felt like I have had "no life" these last few weeks... I guess that stems from the whole "working two weekends in a row and using days off for nothing but running errands" kind of operation I've been running... The good news is that I will not be working another weekend until next month, and working two weekends in a row made it possible for me to get the time off for heading to Vegas! I am so psyched about my vacation... Let's just hope that the jet lag doesn't turn Boogie into a monster!
A while back, my father said that we should go out "for coffee" (even though I have always hated coffee and he should recognize that fact by now!) so he could explain the whole mom and NMD situation... Well, I was all worried that maybe my dad was gay and trying to hide it by staying married to my mom -- though I was not so much worried that he was gay but the thought that he may have felt that he had to hide said gayness from me... Well, it turns out that I was WAY off... Sure, my mom's boyfriend (NMD) seems pretty gay, and he started off as my dad's friend first -- let alone the fact that my mom always acts like she is the resident expert on gay men who pretend to be straight by getting married and having kids... That, apparently, has nothing to do with why my dad allows NMD to be with my mom... Evidently, my dad really does just feel terrible about the fact that he cheated on my mom -- like 20 years ago! -- and is willing to put up with anything "short of her ripping [his] heart out and stepping on it" because she never divorced him and/or tried to take us away from him... The look of relief and the tears in his eyes lead me to believe that he was telling the God's honest truth... He was so happy that my mom "forgave" him (although she constantly brought it up and rubbed it in his face) and never took his kids away that he is willing to pay penance for it for the rest of his life... He said that he could not imagine only having visitation time with us and that anything he goes through now is nothing compared to the loss he would have felt if my mom took us away from him... Wow! Talk about feeling more loved than ever...
And, speaking of feeling loved, I just have to say one more time how amazing Clark is... He is such an awesome daddy, a supportive hubby, and an awesome friend... Even if he does drive me crazy with his fetish for high-end electronics! Teeheehee... The new TV is great, and I really am happy that Clark was able to get something he wanted so badly -- even if the price tag made me balk... He knows that he is not getting anything else like this for quite some time, and he is ok with that, so I guess "normalcy" will resume once again... (Or, at least the normalcy you can have when your home TV feels like a movie theater screen!)... Teeheehee...
What else? Umm... I have been doing way better with the OCD thing, as evidenced in my lack of compulsion to post to this blog every ten seconds... My kitchen is not dirty, but it is not tidy either, and I am ok with that... The only thing that I wish I could do a little better without going completely OCD is my laundry... We get down really low and then I have to hurry up and do a bunch before Boogie runs out of underwear or some such thing... I am so thrilled that he is wearing bog boy undies, though I do wish he would stop telling us that he will "poop in the potty when [he gets] bigger"... Umm... Why not now, dude?!? Sure, we are saving lots of money on diapers/pull-ups because we only need them for bedtime/naptime, but it is frustrating as hell to have to keep cleaning up poop... More often than not, he just goes in his pull-up or his diaper, but there are occasional accidents in his undies, and it's not pretty (to say the least)...
Enough talk about crap, though... Nice stuff?!? I was in the newspaper recently, so people have been jokingly calling me a "celebrity," which is pretty fun to play up... The teens at my library love me and are excited about the upcoming summer reading program (SRP)... I am even pretty well underway with my SRP planning, so that makes me feel happy/less stressed at work... If only I could start ordering books again, life would be just peachy keen! I know it will all get back to "normal," and then summer will take over and make everything crazy again... But, for some reason, I am so much more confident about this summer... Maybe it is the fact that I have actually done this before... Maybe it's because I am so confident that our proposed changes will really make a big difference in how easily we can handle things... Either way, I am more excited than scared, and that is an awesome feeling!
Since I have been in here posting for so long, my boys are wondering if I will ever finish... Better wrap this up... Later days...
That would be me... I have said a couple of times in the past few days that I really needed to post something and then was too busy to do it... And then Clark said he thought people might get worried if I posted nothing after the "meh" post, so I figured I would at least post a quick one... So, things are ok, but I have been busy... Hope all's well with y'all! Oh... And, for your viewing enjoyment --
