Nothing much of importance

  • I’ve been rather uninspired lately. No interest in writing, cleaning, knitting, reading, laundrying…you get the picture. In fact, I’m not quite sure how I have been filling my days, but clearly I haven’t been doing much.
  • I suppose I have spent a fair amount of time eying all the projects around the house and garden and getting overwhelmed and annoyed, because we had JUST gotten the old house in great shape, and now we have to start all over again. And since we had to carry the lovely old house for almost a year, we haven’t really got the funds to do any of the things I have in mind.
  • And you thought you were done hearing about my moving woes…
  • Although I am almost at the point that I am going to paint the ugly stained wood doors myself, just so I can stop staring at them every night in utter decorating angst.
  • In fact, that might be how I spend the weekend, as M is off sailing with his parents.
  • Do ya think he would totally flip to come home and find the family room and back hallway totally redone?
  • I really think I might.
  • What else would I do? It is too cold to go to the pool, and it is Father’s Day weekend, so every other family in the world (except for Rebecca’s) is spending time with their families.
  • Perhaps I will somehow sneak the children without passports onto the next BA flight instead.
  • Or maybe I’ll paint the doors.
  • Which will lead to having to paint these doors.
  • And this window…

Clean Power

We just switched to clean power through our electric company. If you live in MA, NY, CT, MD, NJ, or RI, you can choose to do the same through this company, Sterling Planet. There are other options out there, this just happens to be the one we chose. The cost is slightly higher, they claim about $10 a month, but in my opinion well worth it. Your electricity delivery will remain exactaly the same, but you will be doing your part to reduce our dependence on oil and reduce CO2 emissions. Check with your electric company and see what your clean power options are.

Deep Thoughts, By C

“Sometimes even tow trucks need a tow.”

“Nanas are mommies who let you break the rules, sometimes.”

“Kindergarten seems like it will be just like preschool, without the fun.”

“Little sisters are fun, until they aren’t.”

“Chutes and Ladders is a very long game, unless you go up the slides just like on the real playground.”

“It is hard to do the voices when you are reading in your head.”

“The reason I am always hungry is because you don’t give me food like ice cream and donuts. I bet if I ate a lot of ice cream and donuts I would get a tummy ache and then I wouldn’t be hungry any more.”

“It is hard to treat others the way I want to be treated.”

8 Random Facts

Ginger tagged me for this one….and if I still owe someone out there a meme (and I am fairly certain I do), let me know. Because it is shaping up to be a memey sort of week.

  1. My children are at the moment raging at me because I took away their ability to pick TV shows after dinner because of their behavior (or lack thereof) at the grocery store this afternoon. Note that I did not take away the TV, just the show picking ability. Because it has been that kind of a day. Hmmm, I wonder what I want to watch. Perhaps some Charlie and Lola
  2. I am very tired. I am always very tired. It is a fact of my life. Maybe not a random fact, as anyone who knows me and my kids knows that I am always tired, but it is a fact.
  3. I love trashy novels. I just finished a particularly horrific one which has apparently been turned into a USA mini-series. That should tell you just how horrific it was. Even still, I read it cover to cover. I am NOT going to watch the show, however. Really, I swear.
  4. I kill plants. Not intentionally, but I kill them nonetheless. Despite this fact, I continue to plan elaborate gardens that will eventually die. My own personal brand of self-torture.
  5. I hate to be touched. Hate it. Which makes it rather hard to parent two children who love to snuggle.
  6. I used to be well-informed about the goings on in the world. There were actually several years that I read two or three newspapers cover to cover every day. I kick ass in trivial pursuit for those years. Now? I’m lucky if I know if there is a major holiday approaching.
  7. When M is out of town I live on frozen pizza and nachos. There is something so wonderful about frozen pizza and nachos. And then I wonder why I can’t lose the last ten pounds of baby weight…
  8. Ten minutes later my children are still raging at me. In between the bouts of “This is all YOUR fault.” “No! It is all YOUR fault.” This is going to be the longest. summer. ever.
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