Clever no? No?! FINE!
Thing 1 is in 4th grade. She decided NOT to do band this year because it takes her out of the class for a certain time of day and she is responsible for making up that time and that freaked her out and she didn't want to do it. Next year I am hoping that she changes her mind a little. Unfortunately, after meeting her teacher, I feel THIS year would have been the best time to see if she wants to do orchestra/band. She is very timid and doesn't like the thought of people looking at her, even if I convinced her she would be lost in the crowd. I told her about choir when I was in High School..she is still not convinced. I am clearly in error here. Fine. But check THIS out...her after school program is doing a pagaent and her grade is putting on a play and singing a song. For the play, she is doing set up for sets and props... I am so proud! She did say she wouldn't mind being the narrator...I can see in my head right now the kind of narrator she would be... I think this is the best choice. The narrator is not meant to read the script off of a paper with their head down, mumbling, and then RUN off the stage... see what I mean?
The parent teacher conference that I always have in October with her teacher was, as always, fabulous. Doing above average, yet still a B student because she just doesn't overachieve. It's not her style. Under the radar suits her to a T and that's where she will stay. The books her teacher has her reading are advanced and she even asked me if I had something more advanced at home because she's basically at a 6th grade reading level. Takes after her mom, what can I say?!
Right now she's reading the Rick Riordan books and she loves them. She got pieces of two sets from a relative. I am using the library to fill in the blanks. I am in love with our County library system. I can get books at the library by work and have them sent to there from all over the county. And if Dad needs a book, I have them sent to our local home branch from all over the county. It's AMAZING! I need to show him how to do that, that reminds me...
I am so happy that I can trust her to do her homework on her own, and I was really leary about the teacher at first, but at Back To School night I knew me and this lady were on the same page. It feels so good, to walk through a day in the life of a mom...working, driving, banking, shopping, and NOT worrying about how my oldest is doing in school. Of all the things, it's nice not to worry about THAT thing when there are so many others going on... I know what it means to want to lavish your child with rewards because they did above and beyond expectation, but at the risk of spoiling, I didn't. We DID do something a little special. We got some books. I think the reward fits the...crime? Hmm, how would I word that better? eh... anyways...
Finns is the latest addition to our family...the family fish. A Betta that's red and blue and she just had to have it, to replace the one she killed that Noni gave her because she didn't feed him enough or she fed him too much. The jury is still out on that, but we'll know more when we get the toxicology report....
Too much SVU... That's what she said "Too bad we can't test the fish like on that show..." Oh geez... time to get a new show kiddo...hehehe... well, that's all for school... Thing 2 is so far from school it's not funny...what with her bday being in January... hey, she was planned, just not THAT well planned... Like, 80% planned... that 20% was not accounting for time of year born...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Moles and Trolls...
Work work work...
Oh what it is to be with a man with a strong work ethic.
Something my Ex Step Monster never appreciated.
My Ex Monster in Law (Bitchie Valens) decided that he would call in sick when it suited him or when he was too hung over to go in, or if in rarer occasion was STILL drunk from the previous night's escapades... always a good time finding out which one. Yet, HE never got the SHIT from the ESM that Choni did for working on days that we had family functions... I mean, really? Which is the lesser of the two evils? I didn't mind lending him out to the retail world because I knew I got him every other day of the year... everyday is family day, the holidays just make it more special in our house. But really, EVERYDAY should be family...but anyways, that's neither here nor there.
That being said: He still has a strong work ethic. Our house is very kept and our lives are well oiled machines because of our co-working. He works hard on our kids and to make sure everyone is taken care of...so do I... we are just as much an in-love couple as coworkers in the company of the household. Fantastic... it took Choni a while to realize that he had a passion and had a dream and he wanted to make sure he knew what that was before saddling himself with another job. We were somewhere and someone asked him what he did. Without pause he said he was a videographer. Just so matter of factly that I think it dawned on him then that he IS a videographer. That is his profession, his passion, obsession... Since then, everything he looks for in an off season job requires him to be behind a camera. He did a wedding and it was beautiful. He KILLED it... they all cried when they saw the video he put together and he even got a bonus at the end... yay him. THEN he gets on line and trolls for more jobs and finds one filming a 3 day national sporting event...ON Thanksgiving, but that's what Pyrex is for. Leftovers. No, he will not physically be with us, but he is doing this for us as much as himself... maybe a few percent less actually. It's very important for my hubby to LOVE what he does. He's a very emotional person. I accept that as one of the things I love about him as much as something we work around. But that's love...that's marriage. I want to work around it. I am fantastic at it, nobody can work that emotional thread like I can, because I am his wife. I know him better than anyone including his own mother.. including himself at times. And that's why when I saw we could afford for him not work, I chose to discuss with him staying home with the bebes, than run him out of the house for some soul sucking fakakta job.
I honestly can't wait for him to come home and tell me all about it! Actually, that's not what's going to happen. The even starts tomorrow (Thanksgiving) and goes on til Saturday. On top of that, it starts at 5am the first day, 6am the second day and 7am the third day (an hour drive to get there, so he's gotta get up at 430 on the first day and an hour later each proceeding day) and lasts about 12 hours or so. He'll have intermittent breaks and they pay for food. I won't really be hearing about it until Sunday morning more like... but that's ok. The wedding went swimmingly, this will also go great and hopefully his boss has some more off season jobs to include him in to keep him AND the sports relevant in the off season! It's a very exciting time for us to be in our particular job positions right now. They are bringing commuter trains to our area, when that is finished, it will open his job opportunities even more! Very exciting time... Hopefully he'll be able to shoot a few extras to bring home and show us his work. If this event does well, maybe he'll get some kind of automatic flag put on his name for call backs, kind of like it is at the stadium for him now. Seeing someone you love doing something they love for a living is priceless....
Oh what it is to be with a man with a strong work ethic.
Something my Ex Step Monster never appreciated.
My Ex Monster in Law (Bitchie Valens) decided that he would call in sick when it suited him or when he was too hung over to go in, or if in rarer occasion was STILL drunk from the previous night's escapades... always a good time finding out which one. Yet, HE never got the SHIT from the ESM that Choni did for working on days that we had family functions... I mean, really? Which is the lesser of the two evils? I didn't mind lending him out to the retail world because I knew I got him every other day of the year... everyday is family day, the holidays just make it more special in our house. But really, EVERYDAY should be family...but anyways, that's neither here nor there.
That being said: He still has a strong work ethic. Our house is very kept and our lives are well oiled machines because of our co-working. He works hard on our kids and to make sure everyone is taken care of...so do I... we are just as much an in-love couple as coworkers in the company of the household. Fantastic... it took Choni a while to realize that he had a passion and had a dream and he wanted to make sure he knew what that was before saddling himself with another job. We were somewhere and someone asked him what he did. Without pause he said he was a videographer. Just so matter of factly that I think it dawned on him then that he IS a videographer. That is his profession, his passion, obsession... Since then, everything he looks for in an off season job requires him to be behind a camera. He did a wedding and it was beautiful. He KILLED it... they all cried when they saw the video he put together and he even got a bonus at the end... yay him. THEN he gets on line and trolls for more jobs and finds one filming a 3 day national sporting event...ON Thanksgiving, but that's what Pyrex is for. Leftovers. No, he will not physically be with us, but he is doing this for us as much as himself... maybe a few percent less actually. It's very important for my hubby to LOVE what he does. He's a very emotional person. I accept that as one of the things I love about him as much as something we work around. But that's love...that's marriage. I want to work around it. I am fantastic at it, nobody can work that emotional thread like I can, because I am his wife. I know him better than anyone including his own mother.. including himself at times. And that's why when I saw we could afford for him not work, I chose to discuss with him staying home with the bebes, than run him out of the house for some soul sucking fakakta job.
I honestly can't wait for him to come home and tell me all about it! Actually, that's not what's going to happen. The even starts tomorrow (Thanksgiving) and goes on til Saturday. On top of that, it starts at 5am the first day, 6am the second day and 7am the third day (an hour drive to get there, so he's gotta get up at 430 on the first day and an hour later each proceeding day) and lasts about 12 hours or so. He'll have intermittent breaks and they pay for food. I won't really be hearing about it until Sunday morning more like... but that's ok. The wedding went swimmingly, this will also go great and hopefully his boss has some more off season jobs to include him in to keep him AND the sports relevant in the off season! It's a very exciting time for us to be in our particular job positions right now. They are bringing commuter trains to our area, when that is finished, it will open his job opportunities even more! Very exciting time... Hopefully he'll be able to shoot a few extras to bring home and show us his work. If this event does well, maybe he'll get some kind of automatic flag put on his name for call backs, kind of like it is at the stadium for him now. Seeing someone you love doing something they love for a living is priceless....
**Knock, Knock...***
Oh, HI! Fancy seeing you here... Like there's anybody there...
I seriously want to learn how to post something thought provoking enough to make people leave comments... but until then.. you get this:
I am busy as hell at work... My entire dynamic has changed. For the better really, but there are things I am unable to make room for in my day and it's just so much different than before that the new reality is this: I have time for Facebook throughout the day, but really just to keep up with other people not so much to comment. I found myself about to comment the other day and all that happened was that I was about to send a paragraph into the void...and I told myself when the Facebook posts get to be about a paragraph, that's when I should really choose to blog... fine.. I don't really care about making sure I get on and comment on Facebook these days... It mostly just turns into more like a tweet... small short concise post with a pic attached. Usually it's an IG with a sentence that I auto post to FB and Twitter... GAWD that just sounds boring writing that...
The catch up game will take a while so I don't know which is better... one long giant post or a few over the next few days?? I'm going to try the latter and see what happens... again, not like anyone reads this god forsaken thing...
I have decided to change the name of the blog if you have noticed...if not, no matter.
When I got our new phones in Spring I got an unbelievable deal that included 2 7" Samsung Galaxy Tab 3's... I seriously didn't even know what I would do with these things, but they quite literally GAVE them to me...so I thought, hey... party, bonus. I took them home and Choni was reticent about them at first... 6 months later he wouldn't know what do without it! I bought cases on Amazon that came with bluetooth keyboards. Great investment, might I add! The charging chord to the keyboards fits the galaxy, so I basically always have the charger for it... doesn't sound important to some I bet, but it's SO important when you're lugging stuff for people.
When these things fell in our laps, I had been contemplating a laptop purchase...but wasn't sure...then I read an article about 10 Top Dying Techs. On that list were laptops. Simply stating that with desktop PCs doing incredible things that you pretty much would want to NOT do on a subway and tablets coming with expandable memory and keyboards...why?!? So I thought, yeah why?!? My mission then became to use the SHIT out of my tablet...and I do. I game on it, I'm addicted to Hey Day.. shut up. I have a few little life regenerating games to fill in the 1 minutes holes of down time I have throughout the day and that's about it... Thing 2 still requires I sit with her while she plays, but she doesn't want me to play with her because she doesn't want me touching her stuff...so I will sit there and video her playing and play a game and show her video and pictures of her set ups... it's all about presentation for her right now.. "See what I did?!?" Yep, that's her in a nutshell...
My big idea is to use the tablet for those few minutes between when I brush my teeth at night and then choni goes to brush his teeth and I sit there waiting for him to be done...in those moments I can do one of two things: 1) sum up my moments and thoughts of the day Doogie Howser style on my tablet or 2) map out something a little more interesting to say when I have more time...Either way, that's my new personal goal...writing with pen and paper still hurts even with the wrist support and typing this now in my Icelandic office (don't get me wrong if it's hot in here my nose bleeds end of story), I have finger-less gloves on and wrist supports but I'm covered...I'm A-OK.
I got really busy over the summer...in my head... I was over thinking the idea behind the blog, whether anybody cares and whether it's worth it, and whether I have time and my new tasks at work...my tasks at home... making sure I'm "present" all the time... getting called out about being on my phone when I was like "I'm only on MY phone... when YOU are on YOURS..." some eye opening developments in my relationships with people that are not Choni...
Summer went by slow... No softball I think did that. I had a break to myself that I spent sick...again...and I got this WEIRD skin thing that itched like a spider bite and scarred like one too. I think it was a brown recluse bite because those tend to turn into cellulitis if not caught ASAP. It's fine now. My TMJ something something disorder is in cahoots with my neck and shoulder tension and makes my teeth hurt. I had my extensive dental work done and hopefully that's the end of that...I don't think it is. I'm lucky to have any teeth with my family history. Allergies are still in full swing... All of that compacted toghether equals me being in some form of pain everyday at some point in the day.. If I am busy with enough things I don't notice so that's nice. My plantar fasciitis is somewhat more under control than in the two years I've had it so that's good... $40 insoles later and a new pair of shoes and some exercises later... But it's better than what it was at the beginning...it's not completely gone away and I'm supposed to go in for a cortisone shot the foot to calm down the muscle next month.. Can you guess how exciting I find that? Can you?!?
I joined GoodReads and have been reading up a storm thanks to 1 minute intervals in the day and lunches and waiting for things... I put forth a challenge for myself.. I am almost done :)
I have been using the HELL out of Coconut Oil for all of it's benefits, I am very into at home remedy mostly because I already have all that stuff at home most of the time. Because of the DRY ASS winters, I have switched to a Cleansing Conditioner because I am prone to dry scalp in winter more so than any other time of year. Last year was HELL on my hair because I cut my hair OFF and as much as I loved the cut I jacked up my pH balance on my head and then even with a pseudo winter we had...I itched...and itched...and itched. No amount of OTC head stuffs worked. So I suffered. Then it got warmer and it stopped. Now it's cooler and it's starting...not as badly as last year, but it was this time of year I cut my hair OFF...and it's growing back at lightning speed. This time next year I'll be like "What short hair?" I think I'll stop there because this is just rambling now and who cares?
I'll start the smaller blogs with more to say in the next few days. Mister is working an off season job but I'll get into that later!
If a flea bites a tree in the woods, does it itch?
I seriously want to learn how to post something thought provoking enough to make people leave comments... but until then.. you get this:
I am busy as hell at work... My entire dynamic has changed. For the better really, but there are things I am unable to make room for in my day and it's just so much different than before that the new reality is this: I have time for Facebook throughout the day, but really just to keep up with other people not so much to comment. I found myself about to comment the other day and all that happened was that I was about to send a paragraph into the void...and I told myself when the Facebook posts get to be about a paragraph, that's when I should really choose to blog... fine.. I don't really care about making sure I get on and comment on Facebook these days... It mostly just turns into more like a tweet... small short concise post with a pic attached. Usually it's an IG with a sentence that I auto post to FB and Twitter... GAWD that just sounds boring writing that...
The catch up game will take a while so I don't know which is better... one long giant post or a few over the next few days?? I'm going to try the latter and see what happens... again, not like anyone reads this god forsaken thing...
I have decided to change the name of the blog if you have noticed...if not, no matter.
When I got our new phones in Spring I got an unbelievable deal that included 2 7" Samsung Galaxy Tab 3's... I seriously didn't even know what I would do with these things, but they quite literally GAVE them to me...so I thought, hey... party, bonus. I took them home and Choni was reticent about them at first... 6 months later he wouldn't know what do without it! I bought cases on Amazon that came with bluetooth keyboards. Great investment, might I add! The charging chord to the keyboards fits the galaxy, so I basically always have the charger for it... doesn't sound important to some I bet, but it's SO important when you're lugging stuff for people.
When these things fell in our laps, I had been contemplating a laptop purchase...but wasn't sure...then I read an article about 10 Top Dying Techs. On that list were laptops. Simply stating that with desktop PCs doing incredible things that you pretty much would want to NOT do on a subway and tablets coming with expandable memory and keyboards...why?!? So I thought, yeah why?!? My mission then became to use the SHIT out of my tablet...and I do. I game on it, I'm addicted to Hey Day.. shut up. I have a few little life regenerating games to fill in the 1 minutes holes of down time I have throughout the day and that's about it... Thing 2 still requires I sit with her while she plays, but she doesn't want me to play with her because she doesn't want me touching her stuff...so I will sit there and video her playing and play a game and show her video and pictures of her set ups... it's all about presentation for her right now.. "See what I did?!?" Yep, that's her in a nutshell...
My big idea is to use the tablet for those few minutes between when I brush my teeth at night and then choni goes to brush his teeth and I sit there waiting for him to be done...in those moments I can do one of two things: 1) sum up my moments and thoughts of the day Doogie Howser style on my tablet or 2) map out something a little more interesting to say when I have more time...Either way, that's my new personal goal...writing with pen and paper still hurts even with the wrist support and typing this now in my Icelandic office (don't get me wrong if it's hot in here my nose bleeds end of story), I have finger-less gloves on and wrist supports but I'm covered...I'm A-OK.
I got really busy over the summer...in my head... I was over thinking the idea behind the blog, whether anybody cares and whether it's worth it, and whether I have time and my new tasks at work...my tasks at home... making sure I'm "present" all the time... getting called out about being on my phone when I was like "I'm only on MY phone... when YOU are on YOURS..." some eye opening developments in my relationships with people that are not Choni...
Summer went by slow... No softball I think did that. I had a break to myself that I spent sick...again...and I got this WEIRD skin thing that itched like a spider bite and scarred like one too. I think it was a brown recluse bite because those tend to turn into cellulitis if not caught ASAP. It's fine now. My TMJ something something disorder is in cahoots with my neck and shoulder tension and makes my teeth hurt. I had my extensive dental work done and hopefully that's the end of that...I don't think it is. I'm lucky to have any teeth with my family history. Allergies are still in full swing... All of that compacted toghether equals me being in some form of pain everyday at some point in the day.. If I am busy with enough things I don't notice so that's nice. My plantar fasciitis is somewhat more under control than in the two years I've had it so that's good... $40 insoles later and a new pair of shoes and some exercises later... But it's better than what it was at the beginning...it's not completely gone away and I'm supposed to go in for a cortisone shot the foot to calm down the muscle next month.. Can you guess how exciting I find that? Can you?!?
I joined GoodReads and have been reading up a storm thanks to 1 minute intervals in the day and lunches and waiting for things... I put forth a challenge for myself.. I am almost done :)
I have been using the HELL out of Coconut Oil for all of it's benefits, I am very into at home remedy mostly because I already have all that stuff at home most of the time. Because of the DRY ASS winters, I have switched to a Cleansing Conditioner because I am prone to dry scalp in winter more so than any other time of year. Last year was HELL on my hair because I cut my hair OFF and as much as I loved the cut I jacked up my pH balance on my head and then even with a pseudo winter we had...I itched...and itched...and itched. No amount of OTC head stuffs worked. So I suffered. Then it got warmer and it stopped. Now it's cooler and it's starting...not as badly as last year, but it was this time of year I cut my hair OFF...and it's growing back at lightning speed. This time next year I'll be like "What short hair?" I think I'll stop there because this is just rambling now and who cares?
I'll start the smaller blogs with more to say in the next few days. Mister is working an off season job but I'll get into that later!
If a flea bites a tree in the woods, does it itch?
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