Dear iGEL,
I had mentally started a note to you Tuesday night because we’d had two relatively smooth days. YAY! And then Wednesday broke with “Thing 1 elbowed me in the head” and a steady bout of mid-level skirmishes. Why is it that children lull you into that false sense of “well alright! things are moving along nicely” only to broadside you into “why did we think that ‘childfree’ was a bad option?” It’s really been going on since Day 1. Nursing going well? Time to go on strike, or nurse every 3 minutes for 24 hours. 3 days of toddler eating new foods? Time to live on nothing but 2 cheerios and carpet lint for a while. Preschooler sharing toys? Time to start biting anyone who comes in the room. Ugh.
We’ve been schooling slackers this week for various reasons. Monday was okay. Tuesday we had a meeting in the morning and normally we’d go to the Homeschool Park Day in the afternoon, but Thing 1 ended up with an upset stomach, so we came home. Of course he was cured by the time we got home, but I’d already planned an abbreviated day of stuff they could get done during the meeting (because we were scheduled to be out of the house from 10-6), so instead it was play hockey and go swimming for the bulk of the day. Wednesday morning was rough (what with the elbowing and continued skirmishes) and then the afternoon was spent at art class, the library and the grocery store. Today is Thursday and I was hoping to get back on schedule, and then a friend called. She had just picked up her daughters from their last day of school. Could they come over and play? We’ve missed seeing them, so sure. Tomorrow will either be a busy day, or we’ll end up moving things to next week. Sigh.
Normally I wouldn’t care too much, but it’s the end.of.May and I kind of want to be done. So, bleh.
On the plus side, tonight was stitch and bitch. I had a lovely evening. I’ve been working on making this sweater for myself: http://lisakayknits.blogspot.com/2008/05/cph-done.html – mine will be blue and (shh!) 100% acrylic. Yeah, I know. We could talk about how artificial it is, and yet how wonderfully machine washable and dryable, but at the end of the day, I think acrylic comes from oil which comes from dinosaurs or something, so really, it’s all good. Maybe not vegan (what with being from dinosaurs), but as someone who had turkey AND bacon on my sandwich tonight, this is clearly not a problem for me.
Holy cow. Oil doesn’t come from dinosaurs! http://chemistry.about.com/b/2010/05/18/oil-comes-from-dinosaurs-fact-or-fiction.htm
I neglected to mention – that sweater from a couple of paragraphs back? I have a goal (it’s a geeky thing and I can explain if you’re interested, but it involves a message board and a popular children’s book series) of finishing it by the end of July. I’m not done with the sleeves yet, and I still have the back, the fronts, the hood and all the sewing up. I started earlier this month. Guess who’s behind? This guy. At the same time, I want to knit these next month: http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEfall09/PATTvampireboyfriend.php and have them done in time for the season premiere of True Blood. At the beginning of the month I said that I wanted to have them done in time for the release of the newest Sookie Stackhouse book, but that was the 8th or something so that goal was quickly abandoned. I don’t remember being this geeky in high school or college. I’ve never played Dungeons and Dragons. I swear.
Just because I’m feeling rambly and this post is all about me (and because I’m always interested in what other people are reading), my currently active books are:
- The Land of Painted Caves by Jane Auel – i started this out of a sense of obligation. i’ve read the rest of the series, so i’m reading this too.
- The Gift by James Patterson – this is young adult fiction about a witch and wizard sibling pair and the New Order regime that’s hunting them down. James Patterson and his 2 page chapters make for very quick reading.
- Plum Lucky by Janet Evanovich – an audiobook that’s nearly finished. I’ve read it as a paper book, but I like audiobooks for background “noise” sometimes. My “on deck” audiobook is A Game of Thrones: Song of Fire and Ice by RR Martin (I think). We’ve started watching the series on HBO, so I downloaded the book. I don’t know if I’ll be able to follow it as an audiobook, but we’ll see.
- I’m considering read The Warlizard Chronicles. The author is a friend, and we have the Kindle version of the book to read on the computer or my ipod, but I’m not sure I want to know that much about him.
What are you reading, making, doing, eating?
Peacefully,
Al
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