Year: 2004

So I wonder if I could pull $250k in a year working in Iraq? …And live to tell about it.

Jeep manual found! Also a horde of other great books!

Tomorrow the Jeep gets a new starter and I take all the construction debris in the driveway to the dump!

Yes! Got some cleaning done (put things away not thrown away). And reorganized in the bedroom to better understand what is in our mystery boxes. Identified several to grow through and throw stuff away while everyone else is asleep.

Found some of my books that I’ve been looking for (magic books, music tablature etc) but still not the Jeep manual.

Time to update the list of missing things:

Things I can’t find:

– my house keys

– the bathroom caulk

– the two caulk guns

– my mind

– a job

– me

– the Haynes manual to fix the Jeep

– time

– most of my tools

– my sunglasses

– fingernail clippers (neither of the two)

Got my chi tea and am trying to settle into something.

Bouncing between files and job apps. Must focus on one!

Mom rises! I’m heading down to the dungeon to find work. I have to repair the art computer asap.

Recording Amy’s voice was so fun I had to do it again.

Amy rants “MOm MEE!” and now climbs into my lap to help at the computer. Wow! 5 sneezes! Earlier she said “Dada type” and “Dada’s [d]rink” and “frog frog frog” and “redip reedip”. She just now almost dropped my coffee mug and surprisedily (such a word?) said sharply “Whoa!” Yuck! She is spitting into my coffee mug! OH! No she is saying “Hot” and blowing into the empty mug!

I recorded Amy’s voice and just played it back for her and she got surprised and silenced, stood on my lap, leaning toward the computer, listened for a second said “who dat?” listened some more then said “dat me!”

Just gave Amy some toast with grape jam on it and she touched it to her mouth and declared “Oh!”

Amy has climbed into her high chair, put her seat belt on and is trying hard to get the buckle to work. I guess she is hungry.

I gave her some dry cereal in a bowl and she cheerily said “thank yoooou!”

Tantrum ended when I went near her to clean up a spill that went unnoticed from last night.

She looked up and say “Dada er you doing?”

Now she is staring at the cat saying “Eeeww Eeeww”

I wish I could record her all day!

So much for the good mood. I just threw the baby into a royal tantrum. She had a piece of paper and I didn’t know if it was important or not so I took it away. It got mangled in the process. I should have asked for it as she would have given it over. Handled it very wrong.

“Here’s da da’s phone!” (pointing to my cell phone on hip)

more energy

“Dada phone”

louder and higher energy

“Here dada’s phooone!”