Category: Daily Life

A New Day!

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This Morning

Spent an hour and a half trying to get Tommy bathed for his 11am appointment. I want to minimize Cathy’s interaction and stress with Tommy so I took him to his appointment. Returned at 12:30 to prepare for a 1pm teleconference where I anticipate and ass chewing over the lack of time I put into the project last week and the current state of the work. I need to burn some extra hours this week badly!

I have a check that needs to be in the bank to help make purchases from last week valid but the conference call will likely last from 1 to 2 or 3 and my folks arrive between 2 and 3 (or maybe later if the roads are bad) and I still need to clock 10 hours of work today as well as clean the kitchen and work on my wife’s computer. Oh, and cook dinner. I’m sure Tommy will have a breakdown in there somewhere. Each breakdown occupies about an hour of adult time.

(had one of those long post computer crashed issues)

Yesterday was a phenomenal day! Tommy held it together, the kids did not fight or scream and we relaxed hard.

Tommy played his Nintendo DS for what must have been 14-18 hours straight then became grumpy on Sunday.

Noah is thrilled with everything and spent his time running between toys.

Sarah must have misunderstood what she was opening when she opened her cell phone cover because when she came to the actual cell phone she floated to the ceiling then talked for 8 hours (exaggeration). I have never seen her so happy!

Amy saw her play kitchen and spent the day cooking and making a mess.

I could not have asked for a better day!

Noah’s room is done. Picture later. The polyacrylic cannot be applied until the paint has cured for 7 days. Maybe the polyacrylic is unnecessary. Regardless the room gets assembled tonight! I can always unassemble it for adding the protective top coat.

Today was wonderful! The kids went to the grandparents and opened gifts. Much fun was had by all and the kids had wonderful gifts.

Today was horrible! Tommy’s anger, snide comments, beligerence and defiance were off the charts. I came close to yelling at him but think I’ve maintained.

Room is now properly masked at the ceiling. In a painting project the bulk of your time is spent preping the room with masking and trimming out the edges. I procrastinated putting the masking tape on the border using “the blue paint has to cure” as an excuse but really I was avoiding it because I exaggerated the tedium in my head.

For painting use Ready Mask Painting Tape instead of traditional masking tape. It goes on strong but doesn’t remove paint like masking tape that is left on too long would.

It’s Christmas Eve! I love this time of year. Christmas carols are fantastic. I had a goal of doing luminaria this year. Perhaps next year I can organize the whole neighborhood. I also want to do caroling from house to house one Christmas Eve. I did that as a child and really enjoyed it! I got my shopping slipped in yesterday. I feel great! The house will come together at the last minute. My wife will stress badly tonight. But tomorrow will be beyond magical!

Merry Christmas to all!

Favorite Christmas song this year: Santa Baby by Eartha Kitt (track 22)

The tree is decorated! (yes, I know.. the top has a lighting issue) 

Current state of the room. Needs to have the molding at the top taped so I can finish up there. Needs another coat. Needs a coat of polyeurothene on top of it. This is going to be tight. 

It’s starting to look like a light Tennessee marble. Speaking of which, I’ve ridden horses through one of the quaries used to marbleize some of Washington D.C. I’ll have to go back wih camera and show some pictures.

Received my Microsoft Action Pack yesterday. I’m dying to build a machine and get to playing now! MS CRM server, Mobile Messenging Server and SharePoint server all have me drooling!

Another competitor for Google is Blingo (which probably uses Google’s API). Blingo gives prizes (Ipods etc) along with search results.

Why is http://drinksparks.com/ for over 21 only? Oh! I haven’t read it yet but I bet this is one of those energy beers! Like mixing uppers and downers. Why not just drink water?

Amy made Lucy festive for the holidays. Lucy mutter “oh the indignity!” 

All lights on! 2 half strands out due to bad bulbs but that’s an easy fix. Kids decorating! 

Tree last evening. 

tree at midnight. picture this morning. 

A New Day!

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This Morning

Woke at 7:30. Mild panic quickly repressed. I’m just too relaxed from last night’s accomplishments to get upset today.

Spent some time this morning finishing the lights on the tree so that the kids could decorate. All strands are on and two half strands are out but that’s a matter of finding the bad bulb.

Whew! I have sacrificed on programming duties but another load is off my plate. Now I can focus on getting more off. My shoulders feel lighter.

So far I have not yelled at Tommy despite his blatant attempts to engage in fights.