Category: Daily Life

* Brewed coffee, Flossed teeth (a rarity now a days), brushed teeth, bathed, cleaned kitchen and got dressed

A New Day!

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This Morning

* Woke at 3am. Realized I definitely did not split enough wood to weather us through the day much less the bad weather that we are to face through the weekend. It’s going to get really cold so I guess I’m going to be chopping wood in the rain or snow.

* Am wide awake. Now I could go back to sleep although I don’t need to but I used to be able to sleep sitting up, maybe standing, and once fell asleep in a tree.

Let’s make something of today!

The scout meeting was interesting. I’m bothered because 1) I don’t feel I’m working hard enough with my son on his scouting and 2) he’s earned a badge and not received it for 3 meetings despite reminders. Sometimes I feel singled out. I had that feeling tonight like I had in my early teens. I had just moved to New Orleans and suddenly I had no history but everyone else had history since they’d known each other for years. I was invited to hang out and play with the other kids but I never really felt a part of the other kids. I always felt like the outsider. Years later I realized I was just being neurotic.

So, am I being neurotic again? Or am I in the wrong tax bracket? Do I not give enough to the community or play the right politics? Or did I really get a hex put on me by some voodoo queen when I was living down in New Orleans and now my family is having to suffer through some twisted ironic luck because it isn’t bad luck; it’s alway “ironic.”

Time for bed.

Feeling slightly tense. Watching self.

Going to rain hard today. Flood warnings already issued for the morning.

So, I wised up and made kindling. Now going to wash the floors. Then prepare myself for the meeting tonight. I’ve got about a half hour to pull this off.

The ride back from the school was quiet except for the phone call from the teacher saying the 13 yr old left his homework. So we turned around. I made some casual chit chat but for the most part we were each in our own world.

Time to clean the floors.

Just got done cleaning. Succeeded at getting all upstairs trash out of the house. Changed and fed the baby. Cleaned oven hood, stone top and sides, microwave inside and out, kitchen counter tops, sink, emptied clean dishes and refilled dishwasher. Left to do in kitchen: kitchen table, refrigerator, and floors.

Time to go pickup the 13 yr old.

Baby just laughed outloud. She’s so great!

Day is slipping by. I’ve done some programming and watched History Channel while having lunch.

The baby has just woken from her nap and the wife is at the school until 2. The wife will return. And shortly after that the 7 and 10 year old will return and then I’ll go get the 13 yr old only to return home to clean up for the Blue and Gold scout banquet tonight.

My mind feels like the marbles inside are just rolling around.

The school system seems to have it in for my sweet innocent 7 year old. I’d like to see his file as it is right now. I swear the idiot he had in kindergarden black balled him.

Reduced my font per a request. Please let me know if I made things unreadable.

I hate bill collectors. $57 to NBC Visa.

I must have seen 30 of these New VW Beetles on the way back from the school today. They are everywhere! Of course, this could be “red car” syndrome since the kids play the “Slug bug” game everytime we are in the car. They’ve started showing a lessor interest in the game and for that my bicep is thankful.