Reality Me

Nooooo! I didn’t win the PowerBall!!! My early retirement!

Amy sitting in my lap eatting a doughnut and chatting away. What a pleasure!

Amy is up and playing happily. I need to leave in 20 minutes and I’m not bathed, dressed (nor do I know what I am wearing), and my gear is not in place. I am unpracticed, un-mic’d, and nervous. I know I will excell. I always do. I need to give my art more daily attention and my gear needs freshening (new decoration, some replacements, etc). I should have 7 balls down by now but to do that I need to order roughly $50 in smaller bean bags.

I think I need to wake the wife.

This Morning

Stressing. I really should wake the wife and ask for her help. I need to stretch. Body sore. I should have laid my clothes out last night. My juggling gear should have already been in order. I go to bed too early and sleep too late all the time!

Blast my memory. A mom at Krispy Creme said we could take the report cards somewhere else for something else free.

Must do’s! Juggle and teach juggling at the school for clown day (morning and mid afternoon). (late afternoon) Prepare for casino tonight; ie. refresh my mind on terminology, test wireless mic with small speakers. Submit a resume. (evening) Mock casino; deal craps.

Last Night

I took Noah to soccer and practiced juggling. I went around the bend so that the kids couldn’t see me and be distracted. I still had enough of a view to be able to tell Noah to pay attention and ask him to quick karate kicking the other players (the 7 yr old boys love that game!).

Came home and prompted Tommy to get out of the tub which was a task. Spent time in bed talking to wife and eatting ice cream and watching Futurama.

Ok. TN got the PowerBall this week so yesterday I bought 5 computer quick picks. Today I got a card because I wanted to hand pick a couple of numbers (I’m not going to regularly play). I also bought a scratch and win card. If I am reading this right, my scratch and win card just paid me $35! That puts me up $29 on the TN lottery so far 🙂

Tired. Very successful trip downtown. Got lots of brochures for the zoo event, got questions answered about how to get tags for the car where we lost the title (which isn’t in our name), got addresses for all new businesses in the area over the past 2 weeks, collected my thoughts with a walk in the park, visited the Chamber of Commerce, cooked lunch, watched the History of Niagra (not all of the show); and am tired.

Amy is up. Cathy slept through her crying–I suspect tylenol sleep aid was necessary last night. I wish she could sleep better. Our friend Tim has suggested some exercises. She should get more details from him.

When I went down to get Amy she was yelling (gleefully) and jumping up and down in the crib. Her feet must have been grabbing 10cm (4 inches) of air! She is in a talkative fun mood as is typical in the mornings. She makes my day!

As I get her out of the crib, we take a moment to study what’s in the crib and she decides “nite nite” (her words for her blankie). Her ritual is that one thing must leave the crib with her. Out of the crib she takes a moment to identify the dog “Luscy” (Lucy) and “Mama, nite nite” (Mama is asleep).

She was wearing my house slippers (looking goofy as a clown) and saying “Dada shoes. Dadas shoes.”

Dog gone this girl is smart! She was crying for a cookie so I gave her dry cereal instead and she was standing in front of the utensil drawer and started asking for a spoon. “Dada, a sfoon. Dada, a sfoon.”

She is now in her play house yammering away. She spilled some cereal and cried out “Dada, a pill!” so I ran the rescue and put the pieces of cereal that spilled back into the bowl and she was quite happy.

I could go on and on. She is so much fun to be around!

A New Day!

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This Morning

Amy awoke at 12:30am and I couldn’t get her to settle. I tried putting her back in her bed after holding her and returning the lost pacifier, blankie (she calls it her “nite nite”), and juice but that nor the crib worked. She lay with Cathy and I for a half an hour then I moved her to the crib. She didn’t sleep well because she was up at 6 (I think she went back down) even though I turned the alarm off before it went off. Even though I frequently get up before the alarm, I still want one of these by Harris Communications.

I so wanted to sleep in today. I’m sorta thankful that I have responsibilities that make me get up. I wish I could get back to getting up and exercising. If we had carpet and it was kept clean, I would be more likely to do my stretching every morning and evening.

I am getting really strung. I have to get the art computer working again. I have to do finances today. I have to spend all day juggling. I really need to rent the snake for the pipes. I would like to help Cathy run around and empty the Project Linus boxes (Sarah says the one at school is full again).

Gave Noah Claritin again. I can’t tell if he is getting the sniffles or is having allergies again. He’s so laid back that it doesn’t seem to bother him either way.

The wife and I were just talking about the infamous “cough test” done in high school with the boys. She says “Nah! That didn’t happen” and I assured her that one day we went into the school nurses office 5 boys at a time where we were told to drop our pants and “cough.” I clearly remember the boy in front of me being asked “please move it to the left.”

Still don’t know what the test was for but its not a memory that fades easily. The wife says “you were sexually abused!”

Another documented related story.

The Jeep is fixed! Pictures later perhaps…

I started to work on the Jeep only to realize I needed to go buy an E-12 torx socket to be able to do this. Headed out, bought the tool, picked up my special order lightbulbs for the bedroom, then went to Tommy’s school and checked him out for his psychologist appointment. We went to the psychologist and I wrote a letter to Amy then met with the doctor and Tommy briefly, then played with my phone until the battery low warning came on. After the psychologist I took Tommy to the eye glass place to fix the glasses he broke in an attempt to get out of doing homework. Turns out his frames are discontinued so the warantee is no good anymore. They fixed them with a piece that is close to the existing one. His next trip in will be for brand new glasses (start putting away another $200). We went home so Tommy could yell as his mom some and have lunch. Considered keeping Tommy home but I took him back to school (which is what I really wanted to do because of his surliness and to see how he would handle the rest of the day). Then I returned home and bummed around until I finally motivated myself to get out and work on the Jeep. Once I started the work was easy going and I now have a greasy starter to take to Autozone for testing and replacement.

Heading out now.

Amy the sweet thing has discovered pleasure in sleeping in a toddler bed. She now wakes up and plays with her toys.

I heard her ranting so I went and opened the door. This morning she had difficulty getting to her toys and she was saying over and over “toy! toy! toy!” so I pulled them out a little and left the door open. Instead of following me out, she decided to play with her toys. Very big girl!

The kids are off. Amy is remarkably still asleep. The wife is in dreamland.

My anxiety is up with mixed feelings on what I should be doing. a) fix Jeep (this is like a keystone. If I fix it, it will aid me in many other activities) b) clean office and garage c) program d) go rent the snake to fix the bathroom sink

Ugh. I’m just dreading getting to work on the Jeep. I don’t know why. It’s the kind of thing I enjoy. I’d enjoy it more if my tools were organized and the garage were not such a stye.

A New Day!

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This Morning

Didn’t want to get up. The first alarm isn’t going off. I suspect the volume has been turned down. Time to order an alarm clock from Harris Communication.

Todo: Put new starter in Jeep. Stressing over getting the office and paper work in order faster. Need to be soliciting new work.

Last Night

Spent quality time with the wife. Talked about babies.