Generally, I don't find myself being one to use golf terms... but...
Last weekend, NOT the best weekend. Not that anyone died, or went bankrupt, or anything... maybe something INSIDE them died, and maybe someone went EMOTIONALLY bankrupt... again... NOT the best weekend.
And even though the disturbing and upsetting events didn't necessarily happen to ME or Choni, they affected (infected) our family unit just the same. ... Because we care dammit!
Choni's got some upsetting news about his friend...that made him blah.
We went for a visit with my mother-in-law on saturday and basically dropped Thing 1 off with her to spend the night...and then Sunday was a blah day... the kind of day where you have a list of things to do...and there's 5 day things to do...and all 5 of those things don't go either A)The way they were supposed to B)The way you atleast hoped they would C)Didn't go at ALL.
Bummer...
But it wasn't my list it was my mom's, but I was there as one thing after another did NOT get checked off on a day that was already sucking for her.
Bummer...
Big.Fat.Bummer.
So, Monday, we awoke, getting ready for the first after the time change, which also leaves everyone in a state of blah. The morning became dark again. That does not help my family of four get jazzed for the mornings... We were late getting up and getting out of the house... the next day we were less late...the next day we were on time, this morning, we were early. Yay us. It only took us 4 days to get this down...
But Monday when we got up, and the maddening tornado of "Move! I'm late!" started...and in between the lines we knew... we knew our weekend pretty much sucked... it did... it sucked... I wanted a do-over... I think we deserve it. The way things have been on a bit of an upswing for us and we've doing our due diligence as good adults and grown ups and members of society... we deserve a good weekend... a weekend full of good, positive, awesome vibes...
Not to put the pressure on , but we will get what we want!! Ha-haaa!
The plans for this weekend are starting to come together into something that one way or another, we will get things checked off our list, kids will be happy and we will go to sleep exhausted and fulfilled...one way or another.
That being said: a little catch up-
Thing 1 does not require a parent/teacher conference for the spring (as usual) and I am happy about that! Thing 2 is talking her gibberish that gets more understandable each day. She says SO many things, yet it is total gibberish... A few words are clear as day. You can tell she wants to learn the words so badly and wants to communicate... One day, just like her sister, she'll be three years old, and Daddy and I will be on the cusp of a nervous breakdown from people telling us "She should be talking by now, my *insert toddler relative here* is just talking up a clear, concise, articulate storm of diction!" and then BOOM! Fully blown conversations will erupt over night. We're not worried, it's fine.
Thing 1 goes to an after school program and when she gets there, she is assigned a "teacher" and a "class room". It's held at her school, so there's no transporting needed and she's already in a place she is familiar. The staff is brought it in just for the after school program and if something happens with your child, these people will pull aside to talk to you. That's never happened to me yet, and I always see the staff talking to the parents and telling them that their kid got a warning, or is on a second warning, or that they have had enough warnings that they will be considering dropping them from the program... always negative... never positive. When I walked up to the room to get her the other day, a woman in a blue shirt rushed out the door to meet me and asked if I was Thing 1's mom...
ME: Uhm... yeah?
Miss B: OH Great! I'm Miss Brandy! I just LOVE having her in my class. She's a good reader. I mean, she reads VERY well..? **because it was almost a question...
ME: Yes, she really does. She reads all the time. I've read to her since she was very little and I read a lot, so she sees me do it and wants to be like Mommy, you know.
Miss B: She puts inflection and voices into the reading out loud that we do in class, it just amazes me. I just love her, she's so sweet!
ME: Yes, she really is.
Miss B: Well, it was GREAT to meet you finally! I hear so many good things from her about her mom and dad and little sister!
ME: **Trying NOT to hide the shock and awe* Good to meet you, too, thanks!
See what I mean? Things trod along just fine, and then a weekend of extreme less than mediocrity comes and bites us in the ass...and this after I spent a FULL week in bed with some such YUCKINESS i care NOT to ever repeat in my life and then another week of getting over that while trying to function at work and catch up...this week is REALLY the catch up week...
I got my lens in the mail and all my fun purchases I made with the tax return...not able to enjoy it at all for about a week due to illness...it's like someone getting something you can't have, but you know you can in a few days or a week, but you STILL can't have it right now and that just sucks... First world problems right? I know... sad but true... My new lens rocks!! It's a Tamron, my lil cuz says it's the Civic of lenses... sweetness. And I hate to admit how much of a different it really makes. Cause it does...and I hate that because it makes something so expensive so necessary.
Daddy is looking at lighting and backgrounds systems that we can both use. Funny how this is never how we intended to end up...a still and video photographer living under one roof**smiley face**
Ok, well that's enough from this end... I just felt like we had SUCH A BLAH WEEKEND!! MULLIGAN!!!!!
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Thursday, March 13, 2014
Monday, January 13, 2014
And On The 13th Day...
Good Monday... Good Morning... however you prefer... I prefer whichever way works the best!
We have had quite a beginning of the year...And all in good ways! One of my cousins on my dad's side, which is a very small side, they're the Rhode Island of families, recently moved two towns away from me if you're counting from my house. SAME town if you're counting from work. Yay!! I get to see her more! She moved in with her mum, my Pop's little sister, and I might get to see her more too. She's a Hermit Crab. Not just a Hermit, a Hermit CRAB... She's rad and we love her, but she can be a bit of a crabapple. 4 years in the same town as my work and I have yet to see her due to that fact. Saw her twice, once at a wedding in Pismo Beach of all places and once at my baby shower for Thing 2. That was a surprise!!! It was the best surprise of the day, really. She took Pop's death really hard and she's one of those people that doesn't want to be reminded of the negative, even if it means staying away from the negative's children. Hopefully a trend to be changing in the not too distant future... I'm leaning towards Saturday!
I am still rolling with the changes, REO Speedwagon style, as to having a child born in January... Atleast it's at the polar end of Christmas and New Years, but still...January. I have decided to make it less stress and I am now not including the month of January in my yearly budget. January is a free for all...The "year" will start with my January 31st check, not with my December 31st check as previous years sans Thing 2. Once I decided on that, my whole outlook on this month was A-Number 1-100%-OK. Yay! Nothing extravagant for her bday this year. Just an intimate family party with some cake, some pizza. You know, health food. I'm excited though just the same because it means we have managed to keep the tiny human safe and sound for two whole years. It's as much a celebration of the day of her birth as it is of every day since... I am a proud mama of this little one and of our family as a whole! Yay us!
We got our W-2's at work today...You know what that means...the tax man waits for no one... I get to start my orange tri-cut folder of 2013 tax info. My tax lady loves me for this, by the way... she LOVES me for this. I have two more W-2's, the mortgage company info for the house, the bank statement year ends and my 401k stuff to throw in and we're getting our taxes done! YAY! I know, shut up, I like YAY... it works for me right now.
I have the taxes all tangled up already and I'm fine with the outcome so far. I am VERY fine with the fact that the lens that was suggested to me by my lil cuz is coming down in price as we speak. I love the Amazon Wish List, it's one of my favourite things. Then there's the whole Flash debacle. I have been putting off getting a flash for my DSLR since I bought my very FIRST one. I have a flash for a SLR, and I LOVE it... nothing special, but it's fancy enough for me. I am not a true dyed in the wool photog, though... so I am not comfortable using the 35mm that was once my gpa's anymore...So it's time to walk away from the past and make the push into the new millennia...14 years after it started, but still...shut up. I am DYING to get the lens and flash because now that the prices have dropped SO significantly I feel super justified in the purchases. Then there's the struts for our civic, still need to do that... we are getting our new phones, and now there is a new deal through TMobile that I am wondering if we should check out. Getting these phones is going to be just as if not more harrowing than getting our house. But that's how I roll and that is one of the reasons my hunny loves me!
Wednesday I have taken a personal day to stay within the vicinity of my home and await the arrival of my Pop's elder sister to come into town from several states away with my Uncle and their RV... I LOVE that I get to see them too! I have gotten to see her a lot I'd say... for someone that lives STATES away. I LOVE seeing the side of the family that completes my puzzle. That's what Choners says. He kinda gets where I fit in with Ma's family...but when we're around Pop's family it's like a game show buzzer going off in his head and it's lovely.
Another reason for us to write off January as a loss, other than Thing 2's bday, this year my favorite bookstore in town is closing it's doors. They couldn't brave the slow paced sMall that they reside in and have to make a decision. I have been a patron of the store since day one and will miss them so. They had GREAT discounts when there were discounts, and it's even better with 75% off the lowest price. I got THREE bags of books for $24. And there's something in there for ALL of us! It was so bittersweet... So many empty stores in our sMall. Atleast during Halloween they put one of those atrocious Costume City things in there and it beefs up the traffic something wonderful... I loved how artificially busy it was Saturday with the closing sale. People came out of the woodwork. Aaahh, small towns...
We still don't know what we're doing for the Big 10... and we also made another financial decision. To cancel our New York trip next year so I can get LASIK... I am just about Legally Blind and I am a candidate and Ma works in Optometry and can get me a deal...but with the things we have going on this year, I would really like to get my eyes done next year. I almost bit the bullet and did it this year, but it would cut too heavily into our, lets say, profit margin...Still not sure how to incorporate photos into the blog to make it interesting... so I'm considering that heavily and hopefully that will improve with the new upgrades to ol' Betsy. Other than that, everything's good. Rolling along at work... I need to get in for a trim, keeping the short 'do...
We have had quite a beginning of the year...And all in good ways! One of my cousins on my dad's side, which is a very small side, they're the Rhode Island of families, recently moved two towns away from me if you're counting from my house. SAME town if you're counting from work. Yay!! I get to see her more! She moved in with her mum, my Pop's little sister, and I might get to see her more too. She's a Hermit Crab. Not just a Hermit, a Hermit CRAB... She's rad and we love her, but she can be a bit of a crabapple. 4 years in the same town as my work and I have yet to see her due to that fact. Saw her twice, once at a wedding in Pismo Beach of all places and once at my baby shower for Thing 2. That was a surprise!!! It was the best surprise of the day, really. She took Pop's death really hard and she's one of those people that doesn't want to be reminded of the negative, even if it means staying away from the negative's children. Hopefully a trend to be changing in the not too distant future... I'm leaning towards Saturday!
I am still rolling with the changes, REO Speedwagon style, as to having a child born in January... Atleast it's at the polar end of Christmas and New Years, but still...January. I have decided to make it less stress and I am now not including the month of January in my yearly budget. January is a free for all...The "year" will start with my January 31st check, not with my December 31st check as previous years sans Thing 2. Once I decided on that, my whole outlook on this month was A-Number 1-100%-OK. Yay! Nothing extravagant for her bday this year. Just an intimate family party with some cake, some pizza. You know, health food. I'm excited though just the same because it means we have managed to keep the tiny human safe and sound for two whole years. It's as much a celebration of the day of her birth as it is of every day since... I am a proud mama of this little one and of our family as a whole! Yay us!
We got our W-2's at work today...You know what that means...the tax man waits for no one... I get to start my orange tri-cut folder of 2013 tax info. My tax lady loves me for this, by the way... she LOVES me for this. I have two more W-2's, the mortgage company info for the house, the bank statement year ends and my 401k stuff to throw in and we're getting our taxes done! YAY! I know, shut up, I like YAY... it works for me right now.
I have the taxes all tangled up already and I'm fine with the outcome so far. I am VERY fine with the fact that the lens that was suggested to me by my lil cuz is coming down in price as we speak. I love the Amazon Wish List, it's one of my favourite things. Then there's the whole Flash debacle. I have been putting off getting a flash for my DSLR since I bought my very FIRST one. I have a flash for a SLR, and I LOVE it... nothing special, but it's fancy enough for me. I am not a true dyed in the wool photog, though... so I am not comfortable using the 35mm that was once my gpa's anymore...So it's time to walk away from the past and make the push into the new millennia...14 years after it started, but still...shut up. I am DYING to get the lens and flash because now that the prices have dropped SO significantly I feel super justified in the purchases. Then there's the struts for our civic, still need to do that... we are getting our new phones, and now there is a new deal through TMobile that I am wondering if we should check out. Getting these phones is going to be just as if not more harrowing than getting our house. But that's how I roll and that is one of the reasons my hunny loves me!
Wednesday I have taken a personal day to stay within the vicinity of my home and await the arrival of my Pop's elder sister to come into town from several states away with my Uncle and their RV... I LOVE that I get to see them too! I have gotten to see her a lot I'd say... for someone that lives STATES away. I LOVE seeing the side of the family that completes my puzzle. That's what Choners says. He kinda gets where I fit in with Ma's family...but when we're around Pop's family it's like a game show buzzer going off in his head and it's lovely.
Another reason for us to write off January as a loss, other than Thing 2's bday, this year my favorite bookstore in town is closing it's doors. They couldn't brave the slow paced sMall that they reside in and have to make a decision. I have been a patron of the store since day one and will miss them so. They had GREAT discounts when there were discounts, and it's even better with 75% off the lowest price. I got THREE bags of books for $24. And there's something in there for ALL of us! It was so bittersweet... So many empty stores in our sMall. Atleast during Halloween they put one of those atrocious Costume City things in there and it beefs up the traffic something wonderful... I loved how artificially busy it was Saturday with the closing sale. People came out of the woodwork. Aaahh, small towns...
We still don't know what we're doing for the Big 10... and we also made another financial decision. To cancel our New York trip next year so I can get LASIK... I am just about Legally Blind and I am a candidate and Ma works in Optometry and can get me a deal...but with the things we have going on this year, I would really like to get my eyes done next year. I almost bit the bullet and did it this year, but it would cut too heavily into our, lets say, profit margin...Still not sure how to incorporate photos into the blog to make it interesting... so I'm considering that heavily and hopefully that will improve with the new upgrades to ol' Betsy. Other than that, everything's good. Rolling along at work... I need to get in for a trim, keeping the short 'do...
First Pic...
Having fun with the 'do...
These are my wascally wabbits...
And one of them will be two :*(
Two days....
Two Years!!!
and always with the squishy face!!
Friday, November 22, 2013
♪Oh The Weather Outside Is Weather...♪
I have been crafting up a storm and the man has been baking cookies fresh for Thing 1's lunches... peanut butter oatmeal. Yum! Cookies make the house warm and it smells like the holidays already! Generally I am ALL about making room for Thanksgiving so it doesn't feel like the redheaded stepchild of the holiday season, but this year man, it just seems like we need the OOMPH into Christmas. Luckily for me, I have never had decorations for Thanksgiving and the stores decided to lump Halloween and Thanksgiving together this year. Amazingly enough, I now have Thanksgiving décor due to the storewide "fall" clearances that did the lumping together! Haha!
Ma and her man are doing well...we like him. He might be around for Thanksgiving... hope so... he's fun. It's going to be a small Thanksgiving this year, much like Christmas. I'm just glad I finished shopping already. I get to sit back and enjoy now. Generally, what we do is take the Friday after Thanksgiving to decorate like so many people I'm sure do. This year, I'm jumping the gun...and get this...at the request of Choners...he is usually VERY adamant about giving Turkey Day it's due. Well, this year, he wants his cake and he's going to eat it too... Next Monday, whether the big one goes to day care or not, we are doing our Christmas décor. It's something to pass the time and we might have Knott's plans on Saturday... but until that is certain I don't want to make any plans in stone. So I say, the general idea will be to get out the Christmas awesomeness for Monday... and if Thing 1 goes, she will come home to a winter wonderland in the house :) Also, I am planning on lights outside this year! Shhh, don't tell Mister...
This weekend is family weekend, we're gonna see a lot of his family :) I say his family, but they're really OUR family...It's funny, I just wanted to specify WHICH side of the family, mine or his... I could say The Brown side... But really, that doesn't help... us Irish have been known to have the fever. So both sides are relatively brown.. hehehe...
Tuesday is Christmas pictures... I have been saying, I want to make more image heavy posts, but I haven't yet. I think because I don't plan them THAT far ahead... so it's hard to do. Also, I love my camera. I love it SO much I'm afraid to leave the house with it... I know.. shut up... I got a filter for it to protect the lens so perhaps I would feel better about letting it bang around my back pack... wrapped in a scarf... and maybe a sweater.
Next years tax return already has a portion dedicated to my new lens. My cousin Ace is in "the business" and he helped me out HUGE on shopping around for my next lens purchase... And the more Choni is working on his film project the more I think he will probably want to use the Nikon for projects... A new lens wouldn't hurt! Ace said that my camera body and specs are great, I should be getting great results when I put the new lens on ...next year...
I am LOVING the weather...cold. I love cold. Snuggles, soup, hot cocoa, coffee NOT for my morning commute... aaaahhhh... Blankets on the couches... I LOVE blankets... kid snuggles... and when the decorations go up...the soft warm glow of the tree... oh yeah... that's the stuff....
Today is my last work day of November and I start my staycation... Thing 1 asked if I had any time off that overlapped HER time off...so I made some... cause sometimes, you just have to. I hope this allergy/cold thing goes away... Maybe with a little help from my friends Alka Seltzer and Nyquil...
Too bad there's not a way to make people leave comments... I want comments...
Ma and her man are doing well...we like him. He might be around for Thanksgiving... hope so... he's fun. It's going to be a small Thanksgiving this year, much like Christmas. I'm just glad I finished shopping already. I get to sit back and enjoy now. Generally, what we do is take the Friday after Thanksgiving to decorate like so many people I'm sure do. This year, I'm jumping the gun...and get this...at the request of Choners...he is usually VERY adamant about giving Turkey Day it's due. Well, this year, he wants his cake and he's going to eat it too... Next Monday, whether the big one goes to day care or not, we are doing our Christmas décor. It's something to pass the time and we might have Knott's plans on Saturday... but until that is certain I don't want to make any plans in stone. So I say, the general idea will be to get out the Christmas awesomeness for Monday... and if Thing 1 goes, she will come home to a winter wonderland in the house :) Also, I am planning on lights outside this year! Shhh, don't tell Mister...
This weekend is family weekend, we're gonna see a lot of his family :) I say his family, but they're really OUR family...It's funny, I just wanted to specify WHICH side of the family, mine or his... I could say The Brown side... But really, that doesn't help... us Irish have been known to have the fever. So both sides are relatively brown.. hehehe...
Tuesday is Christmas pictures... I have been saying, I want to make more image heavy posts, but I haven't yet. I think because I don't plan them THAT far ahead... so it's hard to do. Also, I love my camera. I love it SO much I'm afraid to leave the house with it... I know.. shut up... I got a filter for it to protect the lens so perhaps I would feel better about letting it bang around my back pack... wrapped in a scarf... and maybe a sweater.
Next years tax return already has a portion dedicated to my new lens. My cousin Ace is in "the business" and he helped me out HUGE on shopping around for my next lens purchase... And the more Choni is working on his film project the more I think he will probably want to use the Nikon for projects... A new lens wouldn't hurt! Ace said that my camera body and specs are great, I should be getting great results when I put the new lens on ...next year...
I am LOVING the weather...cold. I love cold. Snuggles, soup, hot cocoa, coffee NOT for my morning commute... aaaahhhh... Blankets on the couches... I LOVE blankets... kid snuggles... and when the decorations go up...the soft warm glow of the tree... oh yeah... that's the stuff....
Today is my last work day of November and I start my staycation... Thing 1 asked if I had any time off that overlapped HER time off...so I made some... cause sometimes, you just have to. I hope this allergy/cold thing goes away... Maybe with a little help from my friends Alka Seltzer and Nyquil...
Too bad there's not a way to make people leave comments... I want comments...
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